Aero Instrumentation & Controls Technician

About the Company

GE Vernova is a planned, purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification businesses and is supported by its accelerator businesses of Advanced Research, Consulting Services, and Financial Services. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with more than 80,000 employees across 100+ countries around the world.

GE Vernova’s Gas Power business engineers advanced, efficient natural gas-powered technologies and services, along with decarbonization solutions that aim to help electrify a lower carbon future. As part of the Gas Power One Field Services team, FieldCore installs, maintains, and upgrades power generation equipment, enabling operators of the world’s energy infrastructure to provide more reliable and affordable energy.

About the Role

The Aero Instrumentation & Controls Technician I disassembles, inspects, cleans, repairs, calibrates, tests, and performs periodic maintenance of field instruments, equipment systems, and controls. The role evaluates and determines necessary modifications, performs complex repairs or removal of instruments or devices needing overhaul during scheduled maintenance, and troubleshoots unscheduled work.

Responsibilities

• Support in providing customers with technical direction and support on the calibration, repair, and operation of instrumentation and controls equipment.
• Assist with writing accurate professional reports acting as a single point of contact between Customers and GE concerning technical issues and interfacing with all involved functions.
• Implement conversions, modifications, and upgrades to gas turbine controls systems including software upgrades and major retrofits.
• Troubleshoot, reinstall, test, evaluate, calibrate, and maintain instruments or devices upon completion of repairs.
• Record and report abnormal function or out-of-tolerance conditions of equipment and initiate corrective action and documentation.
• Read and interpret electrical/mechanical flow and instrument diagrams.
• Use hand tools to conduct general maintenance of customer equipment.
• Provide documents of daily records of inspection, maintenance activity, repair, and other work performed within approved guidelines and procedures.
• Ensure all in-field activities are carried out safely complying with company environmental, health, and safety (EHS) guidelines and procedures.
• Ability and willingness to work holidays, weekends, and overtime as required by field assignments.
• Travel extensively (internationally and domestically).
• May be assigned other duties to help proactively drive the FieldCore vision and align with the organization’s core values.

Requirements

• Two-year degree, scientific field of study preferred, or equivalent related work experience.
• Basic skills training to ensure knowledge of fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures of a particular field of specialization.
• Required to be able to read and work from blueprints, schematic diagrams, and specification manuals.
• Must be a team player committed to working in a quality environment.
• Must have appropriate license or certification where required by federal, state, or local laws.
• Ability to understand and implement controls software upgrades.
• May be required to work on offshore platforms.
• English proficiency required.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in instrumentation, controls, installing, calibrating, maintaining, and repairing equipment or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated use and understanding of physical standards of mass, temperature, flow, and pressure.
• Working knowledge of computers/PLCs.
• Excellent customer, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to complete multiple projects within time constraints.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Familiar with power plant maintenance, turbine generator maintenance, or power plant equipment installation/commissioning.
• Basic understanding of PLC ladder logic, including navigating through ladder rungs while troubleshooting.
• Basic knowledge of Gas Turbine Control Systems and Auxiliary Systems including but not limited to Woodward Netcon, Micronet, Micronet Plus, GE Mark V, VI, Vie, Fanuc, RX3i, and RX7i controls systems.
• Field experience on Wonderware, Cimplicity, and iFix HMI software.
• Basic knowledge of implementing controls software upgrades.
• Basic familiarity with Bently Nevada 3500 Vibration Monitoring System.
• Basic familiarity with Fire System Controls.

Pay

The hourly wage range for this position is $29.56 to $48.70. Employees may be eligible for overtime.

Benefits

• Insurance (medical, dental, vision, disability, and life).
• Retirement savings.
• Health and Wellness reimbursement.
• Bonus or incentive program.