Maintenance Electrician

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The Electrician is responsible for maintenance support to troubleshoot, test, calibration, and properly operation of all electrical systems at the plant which include boilers, turbines, generators, and all auxiliary equipment for the plant.  

 

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Firm understanding of the safety and environmental over production expectations at NRG.
• Perform all electrical preventive and corrective maintenance duties on all electrical plant equipment and systems.
• Inspect repair, install, and remove all types of motors, generators, transformers, switches, plant lighting, control equipment, wiring, electrical signal and communication systems, and storage batteries, and work with electrical systems up to and including 4160 volts and including 125 VDC systems.
• Use a wide range of test equipment, including recorders, computers, and control and tuning modules, PC based software analyzer programs, oscilloscopes, data analyzers, logic test equipment, and analog and digital multi-meters and other test equipment, while performing tests to identify problems and to maintain and calibrate equipment to performance standards.
• Make regular inspection rounds of plant electrical equipment in accordance with the national electrical code.
• Assist in developing detailed preventive and predictive maintenance procedures for plant electrical control equipment
• Safely connect, disconnect, and tag out equipment and circuits for testing or repair.
• Properly ground High Voltage systems throughout the facility.
• Install and remove wiring, conduit, fixtures, transformers, and other electrical devices in the size, type, and arrangement necessary for proper and safe operation of electrical systems, circuits, and equipment.
• Troubleshoot, inspect, test, maintain, repair, clean and calibrate instrumentation, solid state controls and microprocessor-based control equipment including plant communications equipment, programmable controllers, generator excitation equipment, battery chargers, UPS units and semi-conductor devices.
• Thorough knowledge of High Voltage in respect to coordinating / supervising a contractor work force.
• Pull cable, install, and bend conduit.
• Maintain complete equipment files, logs, and drawings for all designated equipment.
• Assist with forecast, inventory, and reordering spare parts to maintain plant reliability. 
• Assist in physical inventories.
• Participate in the administrative maintenance of the plant operating manuals, technical references, prints and diagrams, and preventative/predictive maintenance records.
• Operates from established and well-known procedures under minimum supervision, performing duties independently with only general direction given.
• Makes decisions within prescribed operating and casualty procedures and guidelines.
• Executes recurring work situations of high complexity, with occasional variations from the norm.
• Effectively communicate information to management and plant personnel relative to the condition of plant equipment and performance.
• Provides suggestions for improvements.
• Performs duties in a safe and environmentally compliant manner that results in effect operations and cost.
• Comply with plant policy and procedures, in particular, those involving personnel and equipment safety.
• Operate computers and printers.
• Discern and respond to verbal and auditory signals from the operating system.

 

Working Conditions:

• Power Plant Environment - Work both inside and outside in all temperatures and climate conditions in accordance with procedures.
• Work with large rotating equipment, energized electrical equipment in high noise areas, and/or in confined places, on elevations in excess of 250 feet, or from platforms at heights of 5 feet or greater.
• Must be prepared to work irregular or rotating shifts and respond to emergency callouts 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
• Ability to work in mentally stressful environments: must be able to react to crises where immediate action is required to correct or curtail potentially damaging or hazardous situations.
• Work with and around hazardous and non-hazardous materials (reference the waste management guidance manual).

 

Minimum Requirements:

 

• High School diploma or GED.
• Trade School and 3 years industrial electrician experience, OR 5