Combustion Turbine/Combined Cycle Central Engineering Position – PJM Fossil Fleet

Talen Energy • Allentown, PA

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About The Position

Talen Energy is seeking an experienced Engineer with working knowledge in combined cycle power plants and F and H-Class combustion turbines (both single and multi-shaft designs) for their fossil generation central engineering group. The base work location for the successful candidate will be in Allentown, PA. The position will support fleet-wide engineering initiatives for the Talen Energy fossil fleet and would serve as a subject matter expert in their field of expertise for multiple Northeast / Mid-Atlantic/Midwest Talen Energy power plants. Specific assignments may include monitoring and assessing the condition of critical plant equipment, tracking failures, performing root cause failure analysis, conducting field inspections, recommending repair or replacement approaches for equipment issues to the plants, developing short term and long-term risk mitigation strategies, providing input into developing scoping and estimating plans for projects, preparing technical specifications, and providing technical guidance as requested to plant engineering, Contractors, and plant maintenance staff during outage and non-outage work. How You’ll Power the Future At Talen Energy, your work fuels progress. In this role, you’ll do more than contribute you’ll drive meaningful change by: Participate as a member of the Power Users Group as well as OEM Users Groups for the Talen specific combustion turbines. Staying up to date with industry wide issues, corrective actions, and tracking open Technical Information Letters (TILs) from the OEM. Provide technical support and guidance to the fossil plants in areas of expertise to identify, analyze, and resolve equipment and system problems Interface with management teams, project teams, and other disciplines within the engineering group to solve complex tasks. Support the plants with planning and implementation of maintenance outages. Focus on maintaining or improving equipment condition and performance, being cognizant of available techniques and practices. Identify and assist in resolution of emergent equipment issues. Coordinate with vendors as applicable, for related products and services. Prepare and maintain necessary technical documentation and operating and performance history records. Assist plant maintenance and operations with troubleshooting activities during planned or forced outage events Assist in the work on smaller engineering projects or well-defined areas of larger projects. Use existing procedures to investigate, evaluate and assist in producing technically correct and cost-effective designs or recommendations that solve ongoing problems. Build relationships that will facilitate knowledge transfer, cross functional knowledge of related work groups, and ability to present work products effectively. Gather and correlate basic engineering data using well defined engineering procedures, which may include routine and diagnostic testing of components and systems, and engineering studies. Assist in a variety of topics including developing innovative procedures, improved design recommendations or new or better equipment purchase recommendations.

Requirements

• Senior Engineer Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, engineering technology, or other related science discipline from a college or university accredited by ABET, or recognized by ABET as substantially equivalent.
• Combined cycle plant and large gas turbine experience.
• Minimum 5 years’ related engineering experience.
• Principal Engineer Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, engineering technology, or other related science discipline from a college or university accredited by ABET, or recognized by ABET as substantially equivalent.
• Combined cycle plant and large gas turbine experience.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience, with recognized expertise in power plant engineering.

Nice To Haves

• A minimum of 5 years experience in combined cycle power generation engineering.
• A working knowledge with GE and/or Siemens F class and H class combustion turbines (both single and multi-shaft designs).
• Experience working with other large rotating equipment (turbines, generators, fans, pumps).
• Experience with predictive maintenance technologies such as vibration analysis, thermography, and lubrication monitoring.
• Professional Engineer registration in Pennsylvania (for principal engineer position)

Responsibilities

• Participate as a member of the Power Users Group as well as OEM Users Groups for the Talen specific combustion turbines.
• Staying up to date with industry wide issues, corrective actions, and tracking open Technical Information Letters (TILs) from the OEM.
• Provide technical support and guidance to the fossil plants in areas of expertise to identify, analyze, and resolve equipment and system problems
• Interface with management teams, project teams, and other disciplines within the engineering group to solve complex tasks.
• Support the plants with planning and implementation of maintenance outages.
• Focus on maintaining or improving equipment condition and performance, being cognizant of available techniques and practices.
• Identify and assist in resolution of emergent equipment issues.
• Coordinate with vendors as applicable, for related products and services.
• Prepare and maintain necessary technical documentation and operating and performance history records.
• Assist plant maintenance and operations with troubleshooting activities during planned or forced outage events
• Assist in the work on smaller engineering projects or well-defined areas of larger projects.
• Use existing procedures to investigate, evaluate and assist in producing technically correct and cost-effective designs or recommendations that solve ongoing problems.
• Build relationships that will facilitate knowledge transfer, cross functional knowledge of related work groups, and ability to present work products effectively.
• Gather and correlate basic engineering data using well defined engineering procedures, which may include routine and diagnostic testing of components and systems, and engineering studies.
• Assist in a variety of topics including developing innovative procedures, improved design recommendations or new or better equipment purchase recommendations.

Benefits

• Talen Energy offers an exceptional benefits program to its employees.
• Benefits include comprehensive health, dental, vision, prescription plans, life insurance, and disability insurance.
• In addition, employees are eligible to participate in Talen Energy’s 401(k) plan.
• Talen Energy also provides competitive vacation and sick time to its employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees