Provide maintenance support to troubleshoot, calibrate, and maintain all instrumentation and electrical associated with the boiler, turbine, generator, and all auxiliary equipment for the plant.
Duties/Responsibilities:
Recognizes safety hazards and follows safety guidelines for personal protection, protection of fellow workers and the protection of the public.
Knowledgeable of environmental rules and regulations, and effectively apply them to all work situations.
Install, calibrate, test, troubleshoot, and maintain protective relays, computers, metering, monitoring, and control systems on boilers, turbines, generators, and plant auxiliary equipment. In shop location includes performing bench work and component troubleshooting.
Reads, and interprets electric generating plants P&ID's and CWD's to locate, identify, troubleshoot, and repair plant systems, interlocks, etc.
Uses test equipment (oscilloscopes, multi-meters electronic bridges, loop calibrators) and hand tools (i.e. drills, screwdrivers) as necessary to troubleshoot and maintain devices and systems for the power plant.
Completes all written and electronic records (i.e. work orders, calibration sheets, time cards, material requests) required to document the work in progress and as it is completed. Continually updates knowledge of plant systems and instrumentation.
Makes decisions about how best to repair equipment and what resources (tools, time equipment) will be needed.
Employee must arrange own transportation to work location and may be reassigned to another location at the Company's discretion.
Work on and around low, medium, and high voltage equipment.
Minimum Requirements:
High School Diploma, GED.
Five (5) years' experience in electronics, pneumatics, valves, instrumentation, emissions monitoring systems, motor control centers, switchgear or Associates degree in Electrical Technology.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in a technical field or trade school.
Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs):
Good mechanical aptitude.
Ability to discern assorted colors.
Ability to communicate orally and in written reports, condition of equipment and status of jobs to crew leader, supervision, operations, and other craft personnel and outside service representatives.
Knowledge of electricity, voltage, and current relationships.
Knowledge of Federal, State, and Company environmental guidelines
Knowledge of maintenance activities and procedures performed on control systems used in power generation.
Ability to read and interpret instruction manuals blueprints and control system drawings; applies knowledge to daily tasks.
Ability to learn mechanical and electrical control equipment and basic power plant equipment operation.
Ability to use mathematics including algebra and geometry to take measurements and perform
computations required for installation and calibration of equipment
Ability to troubleshoot and repair pneumatic, electronic and digital controllers used in control loops.
Ability to calibrate and perform maintenance on temperature, level, and pressure instruments and transmitters.
Ability to Tag Out/Lock Out equipment per NRG's Tag Out/Lock Out procedure. Ability to use a personal computer and associated software.
Ability to operate Company vehicles and equipment (e.g. forklift, plant vehicles, etc.) and maintain operating licenses and certifications. TDL is required. Ability to influence others toward action or a particular point of view. Ability to accept responsibility for crew activities.
Ability to apply knowledge of plant operations, equipment and skill area knowledge to daily decision making.
Ability to do routine cleaning of work area.
Ability to complete all written and electronic records to document work in progress and
completed.
Ability to use meggar, process calibrator and multi-meter to determine problems within electrical systems, motors and instruments.
Proficient in PC-based analytical software.
Experience with emissions monitoring systems including repairing and maintaining system as a whole.
Knowledge of NFPA 70-E and the use of personal protective equipment and its requirements.
NRG Energy, Inc.
1201 Fannin Street
Houston
Texas United States
www.nrg.com/home.html
