Instrumentation & Controls Technician (Power Plant) - Memphis

The role

You will keep the controls and field instruments reliable on an on-site power plant that supplies AI supercomputing facilities in the Memphis and Southaven area. You will calibrate, troubleshoot, and repair instruments and controls on gas turbines and their generators, plus balance-of-plant, fire and gas, and emissions systems.

What you will do

• Own I&C trip response: trace first-out and historian trends to the failed device, fix it, walk the unit down, and disposition every alarm before restart
• Troubleshoot three turbine control platforms online in Studio 5000 (ControlLogix and GuardLogix, FLEX and FLEX 5000 I/O)
• Calibrate and repair transmitters (HART), thermocouples, RTDs, analyzers, control valves, and actuators; make up tubing, fittings, and sensor leads
• Maintain vibration, speed, and overspeed protection (proximity probes, accelerometers, speed pickups, Dynamix 1444)
• Restore EtherNet/IP device-level rings, remote I/O, and fiber and copper links between turbine controllers and plant SCADA
• Keep fire and gas detection, CO2 suppression, CEMS, and SCR ammonia controls tested and in compliance
• Run loop and functional checks during commissioning, start-up, and outages
• Record as-found/as-left results in the CMMS and fix repeat failures at the cause through management of change
• Use AI tools to troubleshoot and document faster
• Follow safety procedures (LOTO, NFPA 70E / arc-flash, confined space, hot work) and stop work when conditions are unsafe

Required qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalency certificate
• 3+ years of hands-on instrumentation and controls maintenance and troubleshooting in a power plant, generating station, or other high-reliability industrial facility, or equivalent military experience
• Willingness to do hands-on work in heat, cold, rain, tight quarters, at heights, and inside turbine enclosures
• Focus in hazardous environments (high-pressure fuel gas, aqueous ammonia, energized equipment) while wearing PPE
• Lift up to 25 lbs unassisted
• Lifting, standing, climbing, bending, grasping, sitting, pulling, pushing, stooping, stretching, and carrying generally required
• Flex shifts and work hours, including nights, weekends, holidays, and callouts
• Work on-site at the power generation facility, with potential travel
• Valid driver's license

Nice to have

• Gas turbine controls from more than one OEM, aeroderivative and industrial (GE LM6000 or LM2500, Solar Titan with Turbotronic)
• Allen-Bradley ControlLogix and GuardLogix in Studio 5000 with FLEX and FLEX 5000 I/O; Siemens S7 (TIA Portal) is a plus
• EtherNet/IP device-level rings (DLR), managed switches, and fiber and copper terminations
• Vibration and overspeed protection (Bently Nevada or Rockwell Dynamix)
• Thermocouple and RTD circuits, 4–20 mA and HART loops, control valves and positioners, compression-fitting tubing (Swagelok training is a plus)
• Fire and gas (Det-Tronics or similar), CEMS (NOx, CO, O2; CGA and RATA), and SCR aqueous ammonia systems
• Generator protection, excitation, and synchronizing (SEL, Beckwith, Basler)
• Trip investigations, commissioning, and outages worked from historian trends (Ignition or similar SCADA), P&IDs, loop sheets, and cause-and-effect charts
• Associate's degree or technical certificate in instrumentation or controls, ISA CCST, or military training (for example Navy Gas Turbine Systems Technician)

Before you apply

• Must be able to work on-site at the power generation facility

About the company

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe, including the Colossus supercomputers and Grok models and applications. SpaceX was founded with the goal of making life multiplanetary.