Description
Job Summary:
An Apprentice Mechanic working under the direction of a Journeyman Mechanic and /or Maintenance Supervisor, performs the duties of a Mechanic and attends the apprenticeship training classes.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
- Learn and practice safe methods and procedures for personal protection, protection of fellow workers and protection of the public per NRG/Plant Operations Policies, and OSHA standards.
- Follow all Federal, State, and Company guidelines to protect and preserve the environment.
- Develop mechanical knowledge and skills through classroom and on-the-job training.
- Works with other crafts or contractors.
- Install, maintain, test, inspect, and repair generating station equipment including but not limited to, boilers, turbines, pumps, control valves, compressors, condensers, heat exchangers, bearings, centrifugal fans, couplings, sight glasses, strainers, and filters, pneumatic/hydraulic/mechanical actuators, and motor operated valves.
Working Conditions:
- Power Plant Environment-Work both inside and outside in all temperatures and climate conditions in accordance with Heat Stress procedures. Around large rotating equipment, energized electrical equipment in high noise areas, and/or in confined places, on elevations in excess of 250 feet, or from platforms at heights of 5 feet or greater.
- Must be prepared to work irregular or rotating shifts and respond to emergency callout 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
- Ability to work in mentally stressful environments: must be able to react to crises where immediate action is required to correct or curtail potentially damaging or hazardous situations.
- Employee must arrange own transportation to work location and may be reassigned to another location at the Company's discretion.
Minimum Requirements:
- High school diploma or GED.
- 2 years' maintenance mechanic experience working in an industrial, manufacturing, or power plant
- Or 2 years of relevant military maintenance mechanic experience
Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Basic Mechanical Aptitude.
- Ability to use basic mathematics to calculate measurements and computations used to repair and maintain power plant equipment.
- Ability to use hand tools (i.e. wrenches, screwdrivers, sledge hammers, etc).
- Ability to use shop tools (i.e. power saws, drills, drill presses, and lathes).
- Ability to use a personal computer and associated software.
- Ability to communicate equipment status, work plans, and work performed to others.
- Ability to do routine cleaning of work area.
- By the completion of the 6th 6 months an apprentice shall have knowledge of:
- General maintenance activities and procedures performed on rotating equipment used in power generation.
- Basic physics laws that apply in generation power plants (i.e. force, work, kinetic and potential energy, motion and horsepower).
- By the completion of the 6th 6 months an apprentice shall have the ability to:
- Order proper materials for job completion.
- Interpret and act on written and verbal job instructions, reports, tech. manuals and data.
- Tag Out/Lockout equipment per NRG's Tag Out/Lockout procedure.
- Read and interpret drawings and diagrams.
- Use precision measuring devices (i.e. micrometers, dial indicators etc.).
- Troubleshoot mechanical equipment failures and make or recommend repairs.
- Perform preventative and corrective maintenance on mechanical equipment.
- Operate oxygen and acetylene torches.
- Replace packing in pumps and valves, bearings, shaft seals, sleeves, seats, and other miscellaneous parts used in plant equipment.
- Set up rigging for installing and removing equipment.
- Clean pipes, make plumbing and other pipe fitting repairs.
- Complete required records for work performed.
- With additional training, certify as a pressure welder.
- Set up brazing and arc welding equipment (i.e. SMAW, GTAW & GMAW processes) and make quality welds on power plant components.
- With additional training, remove and replace insulating materials.
Contact
NRG Energy, Inc.
1201 Fannin Street
Houston
Texas United States
www.nrg.com/home.html
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