Assistant Control System Tech

Duke Energy Corporation•Cincinnati, OH

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Build an exciting, rewarding career with Duke Energy, where you'll find a friendly work environment, opportunities for growth and development, recognition for your work, and competitive pay and benefits. The Assistant Control Systems Technician will perform duties such as assisting employees of higher classifications, assisting in the verification and correcting of wiring diagrams, schematics, and equipment panel layouts to conform to engineering standards, and assisting in the verification that equipment received and ordered is in accordance with engineering specifications and standards. The role also involves acquiring and maintaining a competent working knowledge of safety rules, first aid, fire fighting, and associated equipment. Specific duties include assisting in servicing digital fault recorders, oscillographs, changing date/time stamps, installing and removing film, and operating necessary test switches. The technician will also assist in the proper labeling of various relays, transducers, test switches, switchgears, circuit breakers, transformers, and associated equipment during initial installations, and act as a safety person during high voltage testing. Further responsibilities include assisting in installing, testing, calibrating, and maintaining weather and environmental monitoring equipment, as well as installing, servicing, repairing, and calibrating meters, transducers, satellite communication, and recording instruments associated with data acquisition for the Energy Management System. Driving company vehicles, maintaining work equipment and areas, observing safety rules, checking safety equipment, attending safety meetings, and becoming familiar with safety manuals are also part of the role. The position requires actively pursuing necessary training for advancement, including familiarization with general switching instructions and lockout/tag out procedures, and performing other similar or less skilled work as assigned. Under close supervision, duties include assisting in calculations involving current, voltage, phase angle, impedance, power factor, and capacitance using vector analysis and other electrical concepts. The technician will also assist in servicing energized equipment, diagnosing faulty operations of voltage regulators, and conducting overhaul tests on network and underground voltage transformers. Additionally, they will assist in performing high voltage testing, such as hi-potting and power factor testing, in close proximity to voltages exceeding 10kV. Under close and occasional directive supervision, the role involves assisting in the calibration and maintenance of system protective relays and test equipment, including high voltage dielectric testing of insulating oils. This includes assisting in the organization of substation and generating station data and databases, such as drawings, wire lists, relay cards, and historical records. The technician will assist in acceptance tests on new or used substation and generation plant protective devices (electro-mechanical, solid state, or microprocessor). Responsibilities extend to installing, maintaining, and repairing supervisory control, data acquisition, energy management, load control, and remote alarming equipment, including master and remote terminal units, and associated transducers and sensing equipment. They will assist in servicing and repairing computers, relays, electric and electronic subassemblies, and test equipment by checking and replacing faulty components. The role also includes assisting in installing, inspecting, adjusting, maintaining, and testing line traps, tuning units, carrier, and protective transfer trip equipment. Furthermore, the technician will assist in installing, inspecting, testing, repairing, cleaning, calibrating, adjusting, and maintaining electronic devices for other departments, such as radio, video monitors, intercoms, power supplies, uninterruptible power supplies, converters, smoke and fire detectors, microprocessors, peripherals, keyboards, and emergency generators. Assisting in installing, servicing, testing, calibrating, and repairing electronic circuits, metering devices, recording equipment, data link equipment, and other devices associated with the Energy Management System is required. Finally, they will assist in the installation, testing, and repair of leased line, fiber optic, microwave, satellite radio, and cellular communication systems and mediums used for supervisory control, telemetry, and system protection schemes.

Requirements

Must have an associate degree in electrical or electronic engineering technology.
Must have a working knowledge of computers and their use with various programs.
Must have a working knowledge of electric theory to perform calculations of a moderate degree of complexity.
Must demonstrate the ability to perform this job through a medium of entry-level tests.
Must have a practical working knowledge of electrical communication apparatus; must have knowledge of integrated circuits, electrical and electronic circuits.
Must have some knowledge of the engineering principles underlying the design and operation of meters, relays, associated instruments and circuits, computer systems, peripherals and data acquisition equipment.
Must be observant, analytical, accurate, reliable and a self-starter with the ability to cooperate and work with others.
Must have ability and knowledge to read logic drawings, wiring diagrams and schematics and to carry out limited assignments in isolating malfunctions to the faulty component.
Must have ability to properly handle common tools, meters and other test equipment used in equipment maintenance, testing and calibrating.
Must hold a valid automobile operator’s license.
Must have ability to climb and work at various heights.
Must be able to lift and carry moderately heavy test equipment.
Must be able to work with extreme accuracy using specialized tools and test equipment for making precision adjustments on equipment.
Must have ability to properly use all tools and equipment.
Must have average or correctable hearing and visual senses in order to detect safety or testing problems.
Must be able to work in a safe manner in which careful attention is exercised to avoid errors.
Must be able to communicate with diverse internal and external customers and associates.
Must be able to function in both indoor and outdoor environments to include adverse or extreme weather conditions.
Must be able to work in an environment, where caution must be exercised and the hazards include high voltage, high steam pressure, confined spaces, dust and noise.

Responsibilities

Assisting employees of higher classifications.
Assisting in the verification and correcting of wiring diagrams, schematics, and equipment panel layouts to conform to engineering standards.
Assisting in the verification that equipment received and ordered is in accordance with engineering specifications and standards.
Acquiring and maintaining competent working knowledge of safety rules, first aid, fire fighting, and associated equipment.
Assisting in servicing digital fault recorders, oscillographs, changing date/time stamp, installing and removing film, and operating necessary test switches to energize or de-energize oscillograph elements.
Assisting in the proper labeling of various relays, transducers, test switches, switchgears, circuit breakers, transformers, and all associated equipment, during initial installations.
Acting as a safety person during high voltage testing.
Assisting in installing, testing, calibrating and maintaining weather and environmental monitoring equipment.
Assisting in installing, servicing, repairing and calibrating all types of meters, transducers, satellite communication and recording instruments associated with data acquisition for the Energy Management System.
Driving company vehicles in the performance of duties.
Maintaining work equipment and areas in a clean orderly condition; continuously observing Company safety rules and practices; checking condition of safety equipment, attending safety meetings, becoming familiar with safety manuals, rules and special procedures prescribed by the Company.
Actively pursuing necessary training for advancement to the next higher job within the promotional sequence, including familiarization with general switching instructions, lockout and tag out procedures.
Performing other similar or less skilled work as assigned or directed.
Assisting in the calculations involving current, voltage, phase angle, and impedance, power factor and capacitance using vector analysis and other various electrical concepts to perform these calculations.
Assisting in servicing energized equipment, including diagnosing the cause of faulty operations of solid state or Electro-mechanical voltage regulators, including voltage level control equipment on transformers equipped with automatic tap changers.
Assisting in conducting overhaul tests on network and underground voltage transformers.
Assisting in the performance of high voltage testing, such as hi-potting and power factor testing, in which the employee is in close proximity to voltage exceeding 10kV.
Assisting in the calibration and maintenance of system protective relays and test equipment, including the high voltage dielectric testing of various insulating oils.
Assisting in the organization of substation and generating station data and various databases, including drawings, wire lists, relay cards and historical records of test instruments, various system protection devices, equipment overhauled and components replaced.
Assisting in the acceptance tests on new or used substation and generation plant protective devices. The devices may be Electro-mechanical, solid state or microprocessor.
Assisting in installing, maintaining and repairing supervisory control, data acquisition, energy management, load control and remote alarming equipment, master and remote terminal units, and associated transducers and sensing equipment.
Assisting in servicing and repairing computers, relays, electric and electronic subassemblies and test equipment, by checking and replacing faulty integrated circuits, semiconductors, capacitors, resistors, transformers and other components used in power line carriers, remote terminal units, PLCs and the Energy Management System.
Assisting in installing, inspecting, adjusting, maintaining and testing of line traps, tuning units, carrier and protective transfer trip equipment.
Assisting in installing, inspecting, testing, repairing, cleaning, calibrating, adjusting and maintaining electronic devices for other departments, such as radio, video monitors, intercoms, power supplies, uninterruptible power supplies, converters, smoke and fire detectors, microprocessors, peripherals, keyboards and emergency generators.
Assisting in installing, servicing, testing, calibrating and repairing electronic circuits, metering devices, recording equipment, data link equipment and other devices and equipment associated with the Energy Management System.
Assisting in the installation, testing and repair of leased line, fiber optic, microwave, satellite radio and cellular communication systems and mediums used for supervisory control, telemetry, and system protection schemes.