Responsibilities:
- Responsible for understanding the plant design basis and Management of Change (MOC) program.
- Investigate equipment failures and own Root Cause Analysis program.
- Develop and maintain relationships with original equipment manufacturer representatives.
- Make informed decisions on engineering issues and methods that are cost effective and of high quality.
- Supports the regulatory Compliance Specialist in all NERC, Regional Reliability Entity, and EIA issues impacting facility operations.
- Oversees contractor and vendor tasks and adherence to corporate programs.
- Develop and maintain plant performance and efficiency analysis tools and report’s findings to the Plant Manager.
- Maintain technical library and drawings to ensure that all necessary reference materials are available and up to date.
- Prepare capital project budgets for approval and administer the project budget.
- Plan and coordinates plant maintenance as required to maximize plant availability and optimize cost effectiveness.
- Prepares accurate plant documentation, to assure proper historical records and reporting of plant maintenance is completed.
- Promotes and works with others in a team environment.
- Performs plant maintenance tasks as required to support plant requirements.
- Assists with operations/maintenance training and qualification programs.
- Must make expeditious appropriate decision to non-routine plant maintenance situations.
- Maintains and optimizes the plant CMMS system, issues preventative/predictive and corrective work orders for completion.
- Provides support in development of work scopes associated with scheduled and non-scheduled outages.
- Provides emergency 24-hour on-call emergency support.
- Development of specifications for equipment and materials as required in support of facility projects.
- To engineer, design, and justify plant modifications and improvements and coordinate plant maintenance utilizing plant technicians and contract support to support achieving company and group goals.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field, or the equivalent in training or experience.
- Minimum of 1 year of experience in power plant operations and maintenance preferred.
- Past experience as a Field Engineer or TFA a plus.
- Extensive knowledge of gas and steam technologies preferred.
- Experience with operations and maintenance of gas turbine, steam turbine, generators, electronic controls, and monitoring devices.
- Proficiency with personal computers, including Excel. Prior experience with plant commissioning and start-up is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience indicating effective communication skills, analytic ability, detail orientation, and ability to make decisions and meet deadlines.
- Valid driver’s license.
- Performs repetitive and non-repetitive physical duties. Requiring lifts (up to 50 lbs), pushing, pulling, stretching, bending, climbing, and working in awkward positions.