IM&E Specialist

Vicinity Energy, Inc. • Baltimore, MD

7d • Onsite

About The Position

The IM&E Specialist maintains instrumentation, controls, meters, electrical machinery, and auxiliary equipment for company cogeneration, chilled water, steam, and hot water plants, distribution systems, and customer facilities. The role also safely and reliably operates boilers and ancillary equipment at Baltimore and OM sites. This is a full-time, non-exempt, union position located in Baltimore, Maryland, reporting to the Maintenance Manager. Compensation is $50.10 per hour plus a 10% bonus target.

The specialist maintains, tests, repairs, calibrates, installs, and programs electrical, electronic, pneumatic, and computerized control systems and instruments. The position includes troubleshooting power and control circuits, maintaining plant and customer-facility equipment, supporting new-installation start-ups, and operating plant systems when assigned. The role requires accurate maintenance records and documentation, compliance with safety and environmental requirements, and customer or public contact when needed. Mandatory overtime and rotating on-call assignments on weekends, back shifts, and holidays may be required.

Requirements

• Technical or trade school degree in electronics or computer science, or equivalent industry training and experience.
• At least 4 years of progressive experience as a technician performing maintenance and repair in a central plant, power generation, or other process plant.
• Ability to write logic in industry-standard languages such as Ladder Logic, Structured Text, and Function Block Diagrams to automate equipment operation.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve issues in existing PLC programs involving control systems and machinery to minimize downtime.
• Previous experience conducting preventive maintenance, optimizing existing control logic to improve efficiency, and implementing system updates.
• Experience creating and maintaining documentation, including system schematics, wiring diagrams, and programming logic.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Ability to perform basic computer operations and use email.
• Valid driver's license and ability to meet the company's vehicle-insurance carrier's insurability and driving-record standards.
• Ability to lift and maneuver up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to work in confined spaces.
• Ability to climb and tolerate heights up to 100 feet.
• Ability to walk, stand, lift, climb, bend, kneel, stoop, and reach.
• Ability to tolerate heat in an industrial production plant environment.

Nice To Haves

• Thorough understanding of electrical safety and Lock-Out-Tag-Out procedures.
• Familiarity with refrigeration and thermodynamics.
• Ability to read and understand logic diagrams, electrical and mechanical drawings and sketches, and technical manuals.
• Demonstrated experience reading process flow diagrams and control and instrumentation diagrams and interpreting manufacturer manuals and drawings.
• Ability to troubleshoot and take corrective action on complicated cogeneration plant instrumentation, controls, and electrical and mechanical systems.
• Familiarity with test equipment such as multimeters, dead weight testers, combustion analyzers, frequency generators, and counters for calibrating and troubleshooting instruments and metering equipment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain safe working conditions, identify and report or correct unsafe environments, and comply with applicable environmental regulations.
• Operate hand and power tools competently.
• Clean, inspect, test, repair, and calibrate electrical, electronic, and pneumatic control systems and associated instruments.
• Repair and modify control circuitry with precision and understanding of technical data and systems.
• Install and program electronic instruments, sensing elements, wiring, tubing, and fittings; clean and repair electrical power switching equipment.
• Test, analyze, and troubleshoot electrical power supply circuits.
• Remove, install, clean, and repair motors, circuit breakers, and transformers.
• Create, maintain, and update diagrams, drawings, and plans for plant electrical, electronic, and pneumatic controls and instruments.
• Install, maintain, and calibrate computerized controls, instruments, and programmable controllers.
• Perform preventive, corrective, and scheduled maintenance and improve operation of systems, instruments, controls, metering, relaying, and electrical equipment, including generator and high-voltage switchgear protective relaying.
• Provide technical support to start-up teams on new company installations, including installations involving controls, engines, turbines, boilers, electrical generation, chillers, and distribution systems.
• Control, maintain, and monitor pressure, temperature, and flow in steam and chilled-water systems, including boilers, feedwater, and distribution systems, when assigned facility oversight.
• Operate boilers, chillers, controls, and ancillary equipment when requested.
• Write work orders to identify plant equipment requiring repair.
• Maintain clear and precise operation and maintenance records, including preventive-maintenance readings and data.
• Serve as the primary contact representative for customers and the public when needed; accurately log complaints and resolve them or promptly pass information to the appropriate supervisor.
• Troubleshoot and analyze instrument, control, and metering problems and take appropriate corrective action.
• Ensure environmental compliance, including proper operation of steam plant outfalls.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.
• Work mandatory overtime when required and take rotating on-call assignments on weekends, back shifts, and holidays as needed.

Benefits

• Personal leave.
• FMLA leave of up to 12 weeks, subject to approval; listed as a nonpaid benefit.
• Paid time off: 120 hours accrued annually, or 4.62 hours per pay period.
• Sick leave: 40 hours per calendar year, prorated based on month of hire.
• Paid parental leave at 100% pay for up to 160 hours upon birth or adoption of a child, to be used in weekly increments.
• Seven paid holidays annually.
• Floating holidays: 40 hours per calendar year, prorated based on month of hire.
• 401(k) plan with Roth option and matching contributions: 100% of the first 1% contributed and 50% of the next 5% contributed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree