Plant Chemistry Technician

About the role

The Plant Chemistry Technician supports the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of Rayburn Energy Station 1 (RES 1) by managing plant chemistry, water-treatment, wastewater, and environmental programs. This position oversees water/steam-cycle chemistry, cooling-water treatment, reverse osmosis and demineralized-water systems, Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) chemistry, chemical treatment, laboratory analysis, and online monitoring. The Plant Chemistry Technician works closely with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Environmental, vendors, and OEM representatives to identify chemistry-related risks, optimize system performance, and maintain regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage plant chemistry programs in accordance with OEM guidance, industry practices, environmental permits, and plant procedures.
• Provide technical oversight of condensate, feedwater, HRSG, steam, cooling-water, and chemical-treatment programs to control corrosion, scaling, deposition, and equipment damage.
• Monitor and optimize reverse osmosis, demineralized-water, cooling-water, and ZLD systems, including water quality, chemical usage, membrane performance, and treatment effectiveness.
• Establish and maintain chemistry control limits, action levels, sampling frequencies, laboratory methods, alarm limits, and response procedures.
• Collect and analyze water, steam, wastewater, chemical, and other process samples using approved laboratory methods.
• Operate, calibrate, and troubleshoot laboratory and online analytical equipment, including pH, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, silica, sodium, and related instrumentation.
• Analyze chemistry and process data to identify adverse trends, treatment deficiencies, equipment risks, and opportunities to improve reliability, water usage, chemical consumption, and operating cost.
• Investigate chemistry-related issues involving corrosion, scaling, fouling, contamination, water-treatment upsets, equipment damage, or abnormal operating conditions and support corrective actions and root-cause analysis.
• Support startups, shutdowns, outages, and equipment layup through chemistry monitoring, flushing, preservation, sampling, inspection, and treatment planning.
• Coordinate chemical management including procurement, inventory, storage, labeling, compatibility, transfer practices, spill response, and SDS requirements.
• Support environmental compliance through sampling, monitoring, data review, recordkeeping, and technical assistance related to