Production Technician III; Electrician

Overview

Responsible for the support of the performance, operations, and maintenance of a 1250-MW natural gas-fired combined cycle plant, consisting of two (2) 2X1 power blocks - GE7FA gas turbines and D11 steam turbines with Mark VIE controls in a manner consistent with providing safe, reliable, and efficient electric power generation.

• A technician must understand concepts to learn to operate the equipment and perform plant systems analysis to take actions for identifying, resolving, and/or avoiding failure modes. In addition, the individual performs operator rounds, troubleshooting, preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance on plant systems/equipment to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable plant operations, as well as enhance equipment longevity, complying with all policies and procedures, and governmental regulations.
• Responsible for providing safe, reliable, and efficient electric power generation in compliance with corporate safety policies and procedures, mandatory electric reliability standards, FERC, EPA, EPD, OSHA, DOT, and all applicable governmental regulations. Takes the lead in performing check-outs, maintenance, and troubleshooting of electrical equipment such as, but is not limited to, protective relays, over-current devices, meters and transducers, electrical switch gear and circuit breakers, electric motors and motor controls, generators and excitation equipment, batteries, and power inversion and conversion.
• Performing preventive and predictive maintenance on plant electrical equipment that includes, but is not limited to, Baker surge testing, partial discharge data collection, thermographic data collection, airborne ultrasonic inspections, high voltage testing, high current testing, and ductor testing.

• Responsible for the support of the performance, operations, and maintenance of a 1250-MW natural gas-fired combined cycle plant, consisting of two (2) 2X1 power blocks - GE7FA gas turbines and D11 steam turbines with Mark VIE controls in a manner consistent with providing safe, reliable, and efficient electric power generation.
• A technician must understand concepts to learn to operate the equipment and perform plant systems analysis to take actions for identifying, resolving, and/or avoiding failure modes. In addition, the individual performs operator rounds, troubleshooting, preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance on plant systems/equipment to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable plant operations, as well as enhance equipment longevity, complying with all policies and procedures, and governmental regulations.
• Responsible for providing safe, reliable, and efficient electric power generation in compliance with corporate safety policies and procedures, mandatory electric reliability standards, FERC, EPA, EPD, OSHA, DOT, and all applicable governmental regulations. Takes the lead in performing check-outs, maintenance, and troubleshooting of electrical equipment such as, but is not limited to, protective relays, over-current devices, meters and transducers, electrical switch gear and circuit breakers, electric motors and motor controls, generators and excitation equipment, batteries, and power inversion and conversion.
• Performing preventive and predictive maintenance on plant electrical equipment that includes, but is not limited to, Baker surge testing, partial discharge data collection, thermographic data collection, airborne ultrasonic inspections, high voltage testing, high current testing, and ductor testing.

Job Duties

• Responsible for daily plant operations and/or maintenance programs to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable plant operations, complying with corporate policies and procedures, and all governmental regulations. Must strive to achieve dispatch orders and keep the control room informed of all changes in plant capability and equipment conditions. Daily plant operations include start-up and shutdown of the plant and various equipment, operator rounds, daily chemistry activities, off-loading of chemical trucks, addressing chemical inventory, as needed, and shift log communications.
  
  Daily maintenance programs include predictive, preventative, and corrective equipment maintenance in Operations, Mechanical, Electrical, or Instrument & Controls disciplines. equipment.
• Take appropriate independent corrective actions to address abnormal conditions, engage needed resources or supervisor, notify plant personnel/management, and utilize work order/management processes. This may also include researching alternative solutions, contractor oversight, and/or identifying spare parts/supplies that are required to complete repairs or diagnostics. In this role, skills are developed in the primary discipline to the advanced level and working on intermediate skill level in at least one secondary area of discipline in Operations or Maintenance (Mechanical or Electrical/Instrument & Controls).
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