Electrical Protection Control Technologist Jobs

In this position, either directly or through others, the incumbent, under minimum guidance of the Lead Protection and Control Technician, is responsible for maintaining, calibrating, and troubleshooting protection and control equipment for Fossil Generation Facilities.

• Maintenance of all Plant protective relaying and associated control circuits (including testing, calibration, functional tests, trouble shooting, and installation of upgrades), such as:
  
  
  
  • Generator relaying
  
  
  • Main Power Transformer, Unit Auxiliary Transformer, Start-up/Standby Transformer relaying
  
  
  • All medium voltage switchgear relaying and transfer schemes
  
  
  • Plant/Switchyard interface relaying
  
  
  
  


• Maintenance of Plant Metering:
  
  
  
  • MWh metering calibrations and upgrade installations
  
  
  • Voltage, current, watt, var, and frequency transducer calibrations and testing of associated equipment
  
  
  
  


• Maintenance of ancillary equipment:
  
  
  
  • Emergency bearing oil pump test
  
  
  • Current transformer meggar test
  
  
  
  


• Outage support:
  
  
  
  • Interface with plant I&C personnel
  
  
  • Interface with outside contractors
  
  
  • Provide and/or support problem solving using trouble-shooting skills and recorder data
  
  
  
  

• High school diploma/GED equivalent required


• Significant amount of time in the field performing P&C services preferred


• Routine travel away from home


• Extended work hours


• Strenuous physical effort such as climbing, lifting, temperature extremes, and dusty environment

Job Family Plant Operations Company Luminant Generation Company LLC Locations Colorado City, Texas Texas

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Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas, that provides essential power resources to customers, businesses, and communities from California to Maine. Vistra is the largest competitive power generator in the U.S., with a capacity of approximately 41,000 megawatts, or enough to power 20 million homes, operating in all of the major competitive wholesale markets in the country.

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