Staff - Principal Engineer - Oak Grove Plant

Vistra•Oak Grove, OR

21d

About The Position

This position works with occasional supervision or direction to perform assigned tasks and coordinate assigned initiatives through completion. The position will maintain effective working relationships with others.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Chemical, Industrial, Nuclear) from an accredited program. Electrical Engineer degree preferred.
Minimum 4 yrs. relevant job experience in heavy industrial or related industry.
Teamwork and collaboration skills across organizational boundaries.
Able to communicate routine issues effectively through written and verbal communication.
Maintain effective working relationships across organizational boundaries
Understanding of power generation equipment and system interrelationships.
Understanding of economic drivers to the business.
Able to apply problem solving processes to address routine issues.

Responsibilities

Performs assigned task with minimum guidance from supervision
Organize and analyze issue specific information and make appropriate recommendations
Coordinates assigned projects, studies and initiatives through completion
Comply with safety policy and procedures to ensure a safe working environment
Prepare and present routine reports
Participate in special project and committee assignments as requested
Lead routine problem - solving efforts
Provide engineering support as assigned to support day to day plant operational and maintenance needs (including forced and planned outages)
Provide engineering support and analysis as needed to identify and implement solutions to address plant operational and maintenance issues and improvement opportunities
Serve as plant interface with outside engineering resources: Generation Services engineering, 3rd party engineering firms
Provide design and specification review as assigned
Provide engineering input to maintenance and operational procedures as assigned
Collect and analyze plant operational and cost data to identify gaps in performance, develop potential solutions and gain consensus on path forward
Support identification and evaluation of capital and O&M special projects needed to support the site’s safety, environmental, operational and budget objectives
Collect and analyze plant operational and cost data to identify gaps in performance, develop potential solutions and gain consensus on path forward
Input and maintain project data and information for assigned capital and O&M special projects in project database
Develop stage 1 package documents for assigned projects
Run project database reports and provide analysis to support management of the site’s capital and O&M special projects budgets
Serve as Project Manager for assigned projects
Serve as Implementation Manager for assigned projects
Provide engineering support for projects as assigned
Participate in and provide input to project brown paper exercises, scope meetings, kickoff meetings and design review meetings as assigned