Power Plant Technician

Wellhead Electric Co., Inc.•Sacramento, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Maintains and controls processes for equipment such as Gas Turbines, Air and Gas Compressors, Generators, Motors, pumps, Emissions Monitors, Reverse Osmosis Units, Demineralizers, for the purpose of providing peaking power into the state of California power grid.

Requirements

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Responsibilities

Operate, maintain, calibrate, troubleshoot and repair plant instrumentation, control devices and electrical equipment.
Operate generation units (Gas Turbine Generator), associated auxiliary equipment using plant operating procedures as required in an efficient and safe manner.
Performs routine maintenance repairs on all equipment including, estimating man-hours for work activities, writing work assignments and recordkeeping of expended materials and labor.
Repair and tune various types of controllers associated with process instrumentation.
Repair and calibrate pneumatic and electric actuated control devices.
Troubleshoot equipment failures, analyze process conditions and impacts in order to recommend improvements for reliability issues.
Adjusts manual controls or overrides automatic controls to bring equipment into recommended or prescribed operating ranges, switch to backup equipment or systems, or to shut down equipment. Opens and closes valves as required for proper system operation and electrical isolation. Opens and closes circuit breakers for proper system operation and electrical isolation.
Records operation and maintenance actions taken and initiates purchase orders for spare and replacement parts.
Reads and understands technical manuals and system piping, electrical and instrumentation diagrams/drawings.
Prepares legible and understandable work orders for required preventative and corrective maintenance.
Reads, understands, and complies with all plant safety and regulatory procedures.
Responsible for carrying out the above duties, an all other reasonable duties as assigned, while complying with the applicable plant environmental, fire, safety, and health programs. Training in these areas will be given to the employee.