Electrical Production Technician - Power Generation Plant

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite 

Legal Entity: Entergy Mississippi, LLC 

 

At Entergy, we’ve been planning for the future for more than 100 years. We’ve experienced a lot of change, generating power first from sawdust to splitting atoms, harnessing sunlight, and using abundant, clean, and efficient natural gas. We are leading the clean energy transformation for the utility industry and continue to explore alternative technologies.  

 

We are on the verge of a monumental technology convergence, where reality swiftly catches up to possibility. The utility of the future does much more than keep the lights on and the gas flowing. It’s knowledgeable and skillful workforce will solve challenges and fuel a brighter, smarter, cleaner, and more prosperous future for everyone.   

 

Having the lowest retail electricity rates of any utility in the United States drives economic growth within Entergy’s region, a key ingredient to sustained growth for any utility. We also believe a diverse workforce committed to personal and professional growth is critical to our success. We place a high priority on developing talent to meet current and future needs, giving employees opportunities to grow their careers their way. We’ve committed over the next three decades to reduce our carbon emissions from our operations to net-zero by 2050.    

 

Entergy’s Power Generation group operates a fleet of more than 30 owned, leased, or operated natural gas, coal, oil, hydro, solar and petroleum coke plants, with a total engineering capacity exceeding 20,000 megawatts. Entergy continues to build or acquire megawatts from new hydrogen capable natural gas units, solar, wind and other technologies to complement its existing megawatts of nuclear, natural gas, coal, oil, hydroelectric, and solar facilities.   

 

* Entergy is seeking a Production Technician (P-Tech) with electrical experience.*

*This position will be filled as a P-Tech III, II, I, or CRO based on the qualifications and experience of the selected candidate. *

 

JOB SUMMARY/DESCRIPTION:

Responsible for maintaining equipment associated with a Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) facility while demonstrating safety awareness and direction that will continuously improve performance by employees and contractors through the use and strict adherence to procedures and processes. Responsible for performing maintenance functions on equipment throughout the facility which includes rotating equipment, manual and control valves, understanding powerplant systems, starting and stopping of equipment, isolating and  or equipment for maintenance following a Lock Out/Tag Out (LOTO) procedure and monitoring boiler water chemistry equipment.

 

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct job briefings and participate in team safety meetings. Be responsible for Contractor Safety and conduct Contractor Safety Orientations as needed.
• Maintain regulatory compliance and be proactive in dealing with all agencies and avoid reportable violations.
• Applies understanding and knowledge of plant systems, burner controls (where applicable), turbine controls, data acquisition, process controls, regulating devices, personal computers, troubleshooting, etc.
• Applies knowledge and experience with principles of operation and function of boilers, steam turbine generators, gas turbine generators, pumps, heaters, steam traps, piping systems, pressure and level regulators and their controls, and auxiliary systems.
• Applies skills to perform inspections, calibrations, diagnostics, testing and troubleshooting of complex electrical equipment and associated devices in a CCGT facility, alone and as part of a team.
• Applies skills to perform work involved in repair and installation of instrumentation and electrical equipment, and plant systems with emphasis on all electrical equipment including but not limited to station transformers, switchgear, circuit breakers, switches, contactors, conductors, motors, heat tracing etc.  Low, Med and High AC voltage experience is preferred with knowledge of DC circuitry a plus.
• During unit outages