Description
Summary:
Provide manual machinist support of power generation equipment in the Central Repair Shop.
Provide mechanical maintenance support to maintain equipment in an electrical generating power plant; may perform Head Mechanic duties during absence of a Head Mechanic.
Essential 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.
- Ability to operate manual lathes to 138" swing, manual boring mills to 17' swing, and large manual horizontal boring machines.
- Installs, maintains tests, inspects, and repairs generating station equipment such as boilers, turbines, pumps, condensers, heat exchangers, and pressure vessels.
- Replaces bearings, packing in pumps and valves, shaft seals, sleeves, seats, and other miscellaneous parts used in plant equipment.
- Works with apprentice mechanics and skill enhancement employees to teach proper, safe use of tools and maintenance procedures.
- Employee must arrange own transportation to work location and may be reassigned to another location at the Company's discretion.
Working Conditions:
- Machine Shop and Power Plant environment
- Power Plant Environment-Work both inside and outside in all temperatures and climate conditions in accordance with Heat Stress procedures.
- Work 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. Climb stairways, ladders, and work from aerial devices
- 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
- Must be able to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as required i.e. steel-toed boots, respirators, goggles, safety glasses etc.
Minimum Requirements:
- High school diploma, GED or equivalent knowledge of English, mathematics and grammar.
- Journey level mechanical aptitude skills and adequate industrial mechanical maintenance experience (minimum 3 years' apprentice program or other training) in the repair, inspection, and/or maintenance of related power plant or machine shop equipment including inspection and preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, fabricating and diagnostics
- 5 years' Machinist experience required
- Large lathes, mills, vertical boring machines and horizontal boring machine.
- Strong math skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Have necessary skills and adequate industrial mechanical maintenance experience in the repair, inspection, and/or maintenance of related power plant or machine shop equipment including inspection and preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, fabricating and diagnostics.
Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to use hand tools (e.g. wrenches, screw drivers, sledge hammers, etc.)
- Ability to operate Company vehicles and equipment (e.g. forklift, mobile crane, etc.) and maintain operating licenses and certifications. Valid state Driver's License is required.
- Knowledge of rotating equipment and general industrial maintenance activities and procedures.
- Ability to operate oxygen and acetylene torches.
- Ability to operate machine shop equipment (i.e. drill presses, lathes and boring mills).
- Ability to follow, interpret and act on written and verbal job instructions, and reports, technical manuals and data.
- Ability to use basic math and geometry.
- Ability to use measuring devices such as micrometers.
- Ability to calculate measurements and computations used to repair and maintain power plant equipment.
- Ability to use a personal computer and associated software.
- Ability to Tag Out/Lock Out equipment per NRG Tag Out/Lock Out procedure.
- Ability to diagnose and correct mechanical equipment troubles and repairs or recommend major repairs.
- Ability to perform preventative and corrective maintenance procedures on mechanical equipment.
- Ability to perform plumbing and pipe fitting tasks.
- Ability to set up rigging for installing and removing equipment.
- Ability to order proper materials for job completion.
- Ability to complete required records for work performed.
- Ability to clean work area routinely.
- Ability to certify as a "code" welder with proper training.
- Ability to use gases and/or arc welding equipment for mechanical repair and fabrication of plant equipment.
- Ability to remove and replace insulating materials with proper training.
Contact
NRG Energy, Inc.
1201 Fannin Street
Houston
Texas United States
www.nrg.com/home.html
From the same organization
22 Jun, 2026
22 Jun, 2026
22 Jun, 2026
