Power Plant Maintenance Specialist

The role

Process operators will monitor process parameters and maintain components to ensure equipment performance and reliability. They will identify deviations, troubleshoot equipment, and work with engineers to implement designs and create operating procedures.

What you will do

• Identify equipment and process deviations and perform corrective actions
• Troubleshoot, maintain, and calibrate centrifugal and reciprocating compressors, gas analyzers, control systems, instrument electrical systems and process control valves
• Work with engineers, technicians, and fabricators to implement fluid and mechanical designs in the field
• Work with engineers and technicians to create operating procedures
• Coordinate across multiple disciplines to ensure that required resources are available to complete builds
• Use knowledge of systems and existing documentation to create and maintain a hardware inventory system
• Learn and run standard operating procedures on the machinery

Required qualifications

• Associate degree in mechanical or electrical engineering technology and 2+ years of experience working with automated processes in control room operations, plant operations, mechanic/millwright suppor
• OR a high school diploma or equivalency certificate and 4+ years of experience in control room operations, plant operations, mechanic/millwright support, or instrumentation/electrical operations
• Willing and able to work outside with hand tools
• Ability to stand, walk, climb, and work with objects overhead
• Required to climb ladders to elevated platforms and operate man-lifts at elevations in excess of 100 feet

Nice to have

• Basic understanding of process parameters and engineering units for temperature, pressure, flow, and power
• Ability to read and understand P&ID and schematic wiring diagrams
• Familiar with mechanical equipment and systems requiring the isolation of the malfunction, disassembly of industrial machinery and repair/replacement of bearings, gears, structural components
• Familiar with lock out tag out, job hazard analysis, hot work permitting
• Familiar with 120V, 480V, and 4160V electrical switchgear and components

Before you apply

• Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, a U.S. lawful, permanent resident, a Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or an Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizatio

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