Operations & Maintenance Technician

Responsibilities

• Follow all operational, safety, health, and environmental procedures to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Perform equipment checks and operate turbines, generators, condensers, HRSGs, boiler feed pumps, transformers, and auxiliary equipment during start-up, normal operation, and shutdown.
• Operate valves, pumps, electrical disconnects, breakers, and controls from the control room or local stations.
• Maintain plant chemistry by reviewing data, collecting samples, and performing analysis.
• Operate and maintain the water treatment plant and associated analyzers.
• Troubleshoot and repair electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and control systems using schematics, diagrams, and test equipment.
• Perform mechanical maintenance including dismantling, repairing, aligning, and cleaning equipment, valves, actuators, and small pumps.
• Conduct predictive and preventive maintenance through inspection, lubrication, monitoring, and testing of equipment.
• Initiate and update work orders, PMs, and material requests within the work management system.
• Use PI and other software tools to extract data, analyze trends, and support reliability and performance monitoring.
• Operate, maintain, and calibrate environmental and industrial hygiene equipment including CEMS and gas detection instruments.
• Conduct JSAs and follow JHAs, SDSs, and site procedures during task planning and execution.
• Safely isolate equipment, obtain required clearances, and perform hot work and confined space activities per site policies.
• Participate in safety, environmental, technical, business, and leadership training.
• Identify and report unsafe conditions or near-misses.

Requirements

• Combined Cycle Control Room Operator experience preferred.
• 5+ years Combined Cycle power plant experience in operations, maintenance, electrical, or I&C (gas turbine/HRSG experience preferred).
• Associate degree or technical/vocational certification preferred; equivalent experience accepted.
• Strong knowledge of operating and maintenance procedures for HRSGs, boilers, turbines, generators, condensers, pumps, exciters, transformers, and auxiliary systems.
• Proficiency in plant operations, control room activities, power block systems, and water treatment processes.
• Ability to analyze, calibrate, adjust, and repair plant instruments and basic control/protective systems.
• Competence in plant chemistry analysis, environmental sampling, industrial hygiene practices, and chemical handling.
• Knowledge of minor mechanical maintenance, tools, rigging, scaffolding, and blocking.
• Understanding of heat balance systems and how imbalances affect plant efficiency.