I&C Technician

About the role

NRG is an energy and home services company dedicated to creating a smarter, cleaner, and more connected future. We provide innovative solutions to make our customers' lives easier, from powering to protecting and managing their homes and businesses.

Responsibilities

• Recognize and follow safety guidelines to protect yourself, your colleagues, and the public.
• 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, perform benchwork and component troubleshooting.
• Read and interpret electric generating plants P&ID’s and CWD’s to locate, identify, troubleshoot, and repair plant systems, interlocks, etc.
• Use test equipment (oscilloscopes, multi-meters, electronic bridges, loop calibrators) and hand tools (drills, screwdrivers) as necessary to troubleshoot and maintain devices and systems for the power plant.
• Complete all written and electronic records (work orders, calibration sheets, time cards, material requests) required to document the work in progress and as it is 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.

Requirements

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

Qualifications

• Ability to complete classroom and on-the-job training.
• Good mechanical aptitude.
• 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.
• 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 do routine cleaning of 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 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.
• Climb stairways, ladders, and work from aerial devices.
• Must be prepared to work irregular or rotating shifts and respond to emergency callouts 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
• Daily work expectation 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 lbs.).
• Lift, carry, position and use tools and/or equipment (weighing up to 50 lbs.) in awkward positions, swing various weights of sledge hammers, 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.
• 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 i.e. steel-toed boots, respirators, goggles, safety glasses etc.
• Have ability to discern and respond to verbal and auditory signals.
• Have ability to discern assorted colors.