IM&E Specialist

Vicinity • Baltimore, MD

6d • Onsite

About The Position

The IM&E Specialist maintains instrumentation, controls, meters, electrical machinery, and auxiliaries 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 within 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 performs maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, testing, calibration, installation, and programming work on electrical, electronic, pneumatic, and computerized controls and equipment. The position supports plant operations and new installations, maintains records and technical documentation, and may oversee or operate facility systems. The role includes mandatory overtime when required and rotating on-call assignments on weekends, back shifts, and holidays as needed.

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 equipment-automation logic using industry-standard languages such as Ladder Logic, Structured Text, and Function Block Diagrams.
• 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 comprehensive 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, insurability under the company’s vehicle insurance carrier, and a driving record that meets company standards.
• Ability to lift and maneuver up to 50 pounds; work in confined spaces; climb and tolerate heights up to 100 feet; walk, stand, lift, climb, bend, kneel, stoop, and/or reach; and 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, and frequency generators and counters for calibrating and troubleshooting instruments and metering equipment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain safe working conditions in accordance with company policies; identify, report, and/or correct unsafe work environments.
• Assure compliance with applicable environmental regulations, including proper operation of steam plant outfalls.
• Operate hand and power tools competently.
• Periodically clean, inspect, test, repair, and calibrate electrical, electronic, and pneumatic control systems and related instruments.
• Repair and modify control circuitry with precision and understanding of technical data and systems.
• Install and program electronic instruments, including 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.
• Complete preventive, corrective, and scheduled maintenance and improve the operation of systems, instruments, controls, metering, relaying, and electrical equipment, including generator and high-voltage switchgear protective relaying.
• Provide technical support to the start-up team on new company installations, including controls, engines, turbines, heat recovery boilers, high-voltage electrical generation, chillers, and distribution systems.
• When assigned to oversee facility operations, control, maintain, and monitor pressure, temperature, and flow in steam and/or chilled-water systems, including boilers, feedwater, and distribution systems.
• May operate boilers, chillers, controls, and ancillary equipment.
• Write work orders to identify and repair plant equipment.
• Maintain clear and precise operation and maintenance records, including readings and data from preventive maintenance.
• May serve as the primary customer and public contact, accurately logging complaints, resolving problems, or promptly passing information to the appropriate supervisor.
• Troubleshoot and analyze instrumentation, control, and metering problems and take appropriate corrective action.
• Perform other duties 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, unpaid.
• Paid time off: 120 hours accrued annually, equal to 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 following birth or adoption of a child, 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 a Roth option and matching contributions: 100% of the first 1% of employee contributions and 50% of the next 5%.

What This Job Offers

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