I&C Technician Apprentice

Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we’re driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner, and more connected future. We deliver innovative solutions that make our customers’ lives easier—helping them power, protect, and intelligently manage their homes and businesses. We offer a dynamic work environment and a unified, inclusive culture that fosters collaboration and business performance. Our programs help employees develop skills for success now and in the future.

About the role

Provide maintenance support to troubleshoot, calibrate, and maintain all instrumentation associated with the boiler, turbine, generator, and all auxiliary equipment for the plant.

Responsibilities

• Recognizes safety hazards and follows safety guidelines for personal protection, protection of fellow workers, and the public.
• Learn 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 work includes performing benchwork and component troubleshooting.
• Learn to read and interpret electric generating plant P&IDs and CWDs to locate, identify, troubleshoot, and repair plant systems, interlocks, etc.
• Use test equipment (oscilloscopes, multimeters, electronic bridges, loop calibrators) and hand tools (e.g., drills, screwdrivers) to troubleshoot and maintain devices and systems for the power plant.
• Learn proper, safe use of tools and maintenance procedures.
• Complete all written and electronic records (e.g., work orders, calibration sheets, time cards, material requests) required to document work in progress and as completed.
• Learn power plant layout and system operations.
• Continually update knowledge of plant systems and instrumentation.
• Make decisions about how best to repair equipment and what resources (tools, time, equipment) will be needed.
• Arrange own transportation to the work location; may be reassigned to another location at the company’s discretion.

Requirements

• Associate’s Degree or equivalent education in instrumentation, pneumatics, engineering, or a related technical discipline OR
• Two (2) years of military experience in electronics repair and calibration may be substituted for formal training.
• Valid driver’s license.

Skills

• Ability to complete classroom and on-the-job training.
• Good mechanical aptitude.
• Ability to communicate orally and in written reports regarding equipment condition and job status to crew leaders, supervision, operations, and other craft personnel.
• 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; apply 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) and maintain operating licenses and certifications.
• Ability to influence others toward action or a particular point of view.
• Ability to accept responsibility for your activities.
• Ability to apply knowledge of plant operations, equipment, and skill area knowledge to daily decision-making.
• Ability to perform routine cleaning of the work area.
• Ability to complete all written and electronic records to document work in progress and completed.
• Ability to safely use hand and shop tools.

Physical Requirements

• Work in a power plant environment, 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, confined spaces, 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.
• Be prepared to work irregular or rotating shifts and respond to emergency callouts 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
• Ability to work in mentally stressful environments; must react to crises where immediate action is required to correct or curtail potentially damaging or hazardous situations.
• Daily work requires ability to perform tasks by walking, standing, sitting, kneeling, crouching, squatting, twisting, pushing, pulling, shoveling, climbing, and working with hand tools (up to 25 pounds) in positions above and below head, and extended from the body to complete repairs.
• Lift, carry, position, and use tools and/or equipment (weighing up to 50 lbs.) in awkward positions, swing various weights of sledgehammers, stoop and bend to reach valves, pull on chain-falls or come-a-longs.
• Ability to twist the body and neck while driving company vehicles or operating company equipment.
• Performance of duties may cause frequent jarring of the body.
• Work with and around hazardous and non-hazardous materials (reference the waste management guidance manual).
• Must be able to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as required, e.g., steel-toed boots, respirators, goggles, safety glasses.
• Ability to discern and respond to verbal and auditory signals.
• Ability to discern assorted colors.