EFIN / Rapid Response Engineer - Electrical
About The Position
The EFIN (Engineering Fix-It-Now)/Rapid Response Engineer provides technical support for operation, maintenance, and testing of plant systems at the South Texas Project Electric Generating Station. The role develops engineering changes and evaluations to address emergent technical plant issues and improve plant equipment, performance, and reliability. The engineer serves as a technical conscience for the station and helps maintain the plant design basis. The position primarily supports electrical systems and equipment, including power distribution, control systems, motors, breakers, relays, batteries, instrumentation interfaces, and associated plant equipment. The engineer is expected to learn the site, procedures, programs, and organization and obtain required engineering qualifications within the allotted timeframe. Work is performed in the field and/or at the work site.
Requirements
- Ability to read and interpret engineering documents and drawings.
- Strong technical writing and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to obtain and maintain unescorted access.
- Ability to work overtime and alternate schedules as needed, respond to callouts at any time, and travel when required.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Engineering Technology (preferred).
- Knowledge of electrical power systems, control systems, protective relaying, motors, batteries, and electrical testing principles (preferred).
- Relevant technical experience, including engineering, maintenance, or operations; nuclear power experience; and overall qualifications are considered in determining engineering level.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical support to operations and maintenance personnel regarding plant systems.
- Respond to emergent plant issues with rapid technical evaluations, troubleshooting support, and engineering recommendations to support safe and reliable operation.
- Review plant system performance and recommend changes to operation, maintenance, or testing.
- Lead interfaces with other departments and regulatory agencies, including meetings and discussions providing information and analysis.
- Prepare and review engineering documentation, including calculations, specifications, analyses, drawings, and evaluations.
- Provide independent engineering support to Maintenance through field investigations, inspections, and problem-solving.
- Support investigations and apparent- or root-cause analysis reports, and develop corrective-action recommendations.
- Review industry documentation and event reports for relevance to STP and identify appropriate corrective actions.
- Accept an Emergency Response Organization position as needed.
- Accept an outage position as needed.
- Complete General Employee Training as required for the position.
- Support rotational engineering duty.
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Job Type
Full-time
