Power Plant Operator - DT0802

Job Title: Operator Control Room
Location: Elmendorf , TX (onsite)
Contract Duration: 12 months contract

JOB DESCRIPTION

Must Have
High School Diploma or equivalent

Working Environment:
Indoor and outdoor work, walking, standing, sitting, hearing, bending, crouching. Employee may be subject to extreme noise, extreme temperatures, uneven ground, and hazardous conditions. Ability to operate an assigned motor vehicle. Use of personal computing equipment, telephone, multi-functioning printer and calculator. Shift work and holiday hours are required.

Shift Specifics:
12 hour shifts rotating days and nights with 36 and 48 work hours per/week.

Physical Demand:
Requires standing, lifting, kneeling, twisting, climbing stairs and Ladders. Requires wearing personal protective safety equipment. Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

• Ensures all safety rules and regulations are followed including the coordination and supervision of equipment isolation and Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO) procedures.
• Ensures that the power plant is operating within all established guidelines, state, federal environmental and regulatory compliance obligations.
• Ensures compliance with Energy Conduct of Operations Manual.
• Complies with all Safety Procedures, Policies, and guidelines. To include LOTO procedures
• Monitors safety and security performance of plant personnel and the public during emergency response situations, e.g., fires, explosions, high pressure steam/water leaks, chemical spill/release events, sabotage, lake releases.
• Monitors performance and provides guidance related to the adherence and compliance with all OSHA, TCEQ, EPA, NERC, ERCOT, Texas RE, and PUC requirements.
• Responsible for the proper start-up, operation, shutdown of assigned generating units, and the coordination of load and/or voltage output increases and reductions with QSE and TO.
• Make rounds documenting unit parameters and performance. Reporting any deficiencies and or equipment issues that could lead to a unit derate, trip or forced outage.
• Support the operations team during winter and summer related events.
• Responsible for general housekeeping and cleanliness of assigned equipment and the overall plant.
• Responsible for daily coordination of weekly maintenance and outage scheduling and establishing maintenance priorities.
• Responsible for reviewing procedures, checklists, plant system drawings (P&ID’s).
• Responsible for ensuring equipment deficiencies (operating outside of established guidelines) are identified and appropriate work notifications/requests are generated within the maintenance management system.
• Responsible for procedural adherence to established critical power plant operating procedures.
• Responsible for ensuing compliance with all policies for self, and all operating staff.
• Must be willing and able to work rotating shifts, overtime, when necessary, storm/emergency conditions, nights, weekends, holidays, etc.
• Proficiently performs control room operator, turbine tender, and auxiliary operator job requirements.
• Ability to work well under pressure, remaining focused and calm in the face of distractions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, detail, active listening, speaking, coordination, social perceptiveness, critical thinking, judgment, and decision making, monitoring, reading comprehension, oral comprehension, oral expression, speech clarity, speech recognition, problem sensitivity, written comprehension, deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, written expression.
• Ability to utilize PI Historian to trend operational parameters in support of troubleshooting efforts.
• Ability to navigate to Alarm Lists and Sequence of Events reporting to identify causes of process upsets.
• Ability to pass a respirator fit test and maintain facial hair in accordance with safety policies.

Preferred Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Control Room Operator.
• Superior working knowledge of all conventional designs of thermal units, combined cycle units, heat recovery steam generators (HRSG), simple cycle gas turbines, steam, mechanical, electrical, and chemical systems, and their appropriate integrations for efficient, safe, and effective production.