As an NRG employee, we encourage you to take charge of your career and development journey. We invite you to explore exciting opportunities across our businesses. You’ll find that our dynamic work environment provides variety and challenge. Your growth is key to our ongoing success—take the lead in shaping your career development, goals and future! Job Purpose: Provide support for process improvements, performance monitoring, root cause analysis, engineering and construction activities, and operating and maintenance functions to ensure safe and efficient plant operation. Emphasis: Balance of Plant, PDM Essential Functions: <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Provide direction to operations and maintenance departments to insure that plant equipment remains reliable. This includes both technical and financial decisions which impact the overall unit availability and cost control. </li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Provide technical support, testing and inspection expertise within their assigned process areas to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient plant operation.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Optimize station equipment operation to meet key performance indicators</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Develop O&M and Capital budgets for the process equipment. Assemble ten year plans and budgets for projects to establish accurate projected cash flows out into the future. </li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Develop strategic plans for equipment overhauls to optimize equipment life and time between overhauls. </li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Develop outage schedules, coordinate and perform outage inspections for all process equipment.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Utilize predictive and preventative maintenance (PM/PDM) techniques to monitor and improve equipment. Evaluate and analyze process variables to identify status and trending of key operating parameters.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Conduct root cause analysis of equipment problems and provide recommendations to prevent future incidents. Assemble all equipment failure reports. </li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Develop, review & revise station procedures & technical instructions and documentation of equipment testing and inspections.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Provide engineering, design, economic justification, and specify parts and materials for projects and modifications. Implement projects and process modifications. </li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Conduct or procure training as required within their process.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Interface with outside engineering resources on an “as-needed” basis. </li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Work effectively in a team environment as a leader, member and/or facilitator.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Perform other duties and assignments as required.</li> </ul> Essential Functions for Emphasis: Rotating Equipment: <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Overall operation and maintenance of large rotating equipment including but not limited to: bearing operation and maintenance, precision alignment of rotating equipment couplings, vibration analysis and balancing, and non-destructive examination techniques for materials.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Knowledge of the operation and maintenance of large pumps and associated systems such as high volume/low head circulating water pumps, multi-stage vertical pit pumps, multi-stage high head boiler feed pumps, and other simpler pump applications.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Knowledge and experience in performing vibration analysis on typical equipment used at a power plant.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Experienced in collecting and analyzing thermography data on collected electrical as well as mechanical equipment and use analysis results to provide recommendations to repair/maintain plant equipment.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Knowledge and experience in oil analysis, which includes lubricating oils used in power plant equipment, such as turbines, gearboxes, fluid drives and transformers.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Must be able to collect and analyze motor current data and use the analysis results to provide recommendations to repair/maintain motors.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Experience in rotating equipment balancing, which includes in situ balancing as well as component balancing using a balance stand.</li> </ul> BOP: <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Knowledge of the concepts, construction, and operation of the turbine process steam cycle as it relates to a fossil steam power plant including basic thermodynamics.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Experience in maintenance and operation of all plant air supply systems, including station air, instrument air, and sootblowing air where applicable.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Knowledge and experience of service water systems, including low pressure systems, high pressure systems, closed cooling water systems, domestic (potable) water systems and circulating water systems.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Experience in the operation and maintenance of various fire protection systems used at a power plant.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Knowledge and experience in facilities management, which includes station heating, cooling, ventilation, plumbing and building envelope repairs.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Operations and maintenance of dust control technologies such as dust collection bag houses, dust transport systems, dust suppression systems, and passive dust control technologies.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Experience managing small to large outages, including specification development, station representative during installation, coordinate start-up and testing.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Experience in performing inspections on fans, pumps, ash handling systems, soot blowing equipment.</li> </ul> Boiler: <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">General knowledge in applicable codes and repair methods on boilers and high energy piping (ASME, NBIC.etc.)</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Knowledge in Non-Destructive Examinations (NDE).</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Provide technical oversight on contractors during outages to ensure proper QA/QC procedures are followed.</li> <li style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Knowledge in coal mill and boiler operation, inspections, maintenance and performance testing.</li> </ul> QUALIFICATION GUIDELINES Any combination equivalent to, but not limited to, the following: Required: Engineering or Technical Degree with a minimum of five years experience in technical support of plant processes. Extensive work related experience may be substituted for Engineering or technical degree. Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Thorough understanding of Power Plant processes and equipment and the interrelationships between them.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Ability to effectively supervise, train and direct others (peers, employees, contractors/vendors) in an understandable, clear and consistent manner </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Ability to read and understand technical information, prints and engineering data, interpret charts, graphs, and gauge scales. Ability to troubleshoot and repair equipment and systems.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Risk management - able to make good judgment on utilization of sometimes limited resources.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">General to thorough knowledge in root cause analysis and proficient in technical report writing.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Proficient in the use of PC, and Windows & Microsoft Office applications with particular emphasis on spreadsheet, scheduling, equipment performance and word processing programs.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Strong written and verbal communication skills.</li> </ul> Physical Requirements/Working Conditions: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">This position is a combination of work in office and industrial settings. </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Must be able to wear required personal protection equipment (PPE) such as hard hats, safety glasses, goggles, face shields, hearing protection, respirators, fall protection harnesses, and other PPE as required.</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Courier New'">Duties require extensive manual dexterity in usage of computer terminal and keyboard, while sitting for long periods of time preparing budgets, work scopes, outage schedules, and other reports as needed.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Courier New'">May be required to perform equipment inspections by climbing vertical ladders in excess of 20 feet and stairways in excess of 50 feet, using step stool, kneeling, bending, walking over uneven surfaces such as loose rock, open grating, up and down staircases.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Courier New'">May also be required to operate mobile equipment such as zoom booms or scissor lifts to reach heights to inspect equipment, which includes pushing or pulling equipment into place, climbing into a basket, and riding in the basket while the equipment is operation.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Courier New'">The compartments where certain equipment may be located may exceed temperatures of 130°F. </li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Courier New'">May be required to prepare and conduct training, including mentoring individuals one-on-one. In conducting training, the specialist may be required to carry training materials, and to stand for extended periods of time.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">This position may require some domestic travel.</li> </ul> (Management reserves the right to change, rescind, add, or delete the duties and responsibilities of positions within the job classification at any time.) Salary offered will be commensurate with the successful candidate’s education and/or experience and consistent with the job location’s market pay rate. NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills. 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