Fossil Plant Engineering (level commensurate with experience)

Talen Energy•Washingtonville, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Talen Energy is seeking a Mechanical Engineer for its Montour Steam Electric Station near Washingtonville, Pennsylvania. This role involves performing challenging engineering work with varying degrees of direct responsibility and supervision. Specific responsibilities include planning, designing, and overseeing construction, installation, operation, and maintenance of components, systems, and facilities used in electrical energy generation, transmission, distribution, and utilization within a power plant facility.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

A working knowledge of power plant is preferred.
Must be able to work independently with minimal oversight.
Ability to multi-task and deal with ever changing priorities.
Experience working with large rotating equipment (turbines, generators, fans, pumps).

Responsibilities

Act as key engineering interface for day-to-day plant maintenance and operations activities.
Support the 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 for related products and services.
Prepare and maintain necessary technical documentation and operating and performance history records.
Assist maintenance and operations functions with troubleshooting activities, and with startup and shutdown tasks.
Be available to provide engineering support as needed for a 24x7 operation (be available for overtime and callouts).
Assist in 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.