Head Electrician

Direct Energy Business; La Porte (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

NRG Energy is seeking an experienced electrical maintenance professional to support a power plant. You will perform maintenance, repair and supervisory duties in the supervisor's absence, ensuring safety and compliance with procedures.

Responsibilities include troubleshooting, reading manuals and drawings, completing records, and guiding a crew in a demanding, dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED required.
• Ten (10) years of industrial electric maintenance experience.
• Valid Driver’s License.
• Preferred familiarity with San Jacinto plant equipment.

Responsibilities

• Recognize safety hazards and follow safety guidelines for PPE and the public.
• Demonstrate leadership capabilities and guide crew activities.
• Assist in providing skill enhancement training to personnel and journeymen electricians.
• Read and interpret manuals, blueprints, and control system drawings.
• Complete work orders, calibration sheets, timecards, and material requests.
• Inspect, troubleshoot, repair, remove and install plant equipment as needed.

Skills

Electrical maintenance

Leadership

Safety awareness

Education

High School diploma or GED

Job description

Location: LA PORTE, TX 77571

Post Date: May 13, 2026

Job Summary

Provide knowledgeable electrical maintenance support to maintain and repair equipment in an electrical generating power plant; performs Supervisor duties during absence of the Supervisor.

Essential Duties / Responsibilities

• Recognize safety hazards and follow safety guidelines for personal protection, protection of fellow workers and the protection of the public.
• Demonstrate leadership capabilities and act as a positive role model, accepts responsibility for crew activities.
• Assist in providing skill enhancement training to personnel in program, and training journeymen electricians.
• Apply knowledge of environmental rules and regulations to all work situations.
• Read and interpret instruction manuals, blueprints and control system drawings; apply knowledge to daily tasks.
• Complete written and electronic records (i.e., work orders, calibration sheets, timecards, material requests) required to document the work in progress and as it is completed.
• Inspect, troubleshoot, test, repair, remove and install as necessary to maintain equipment such as generators, transformers, breakers, switchgear, motors and auxiliary electrical equipment such as freeze protection, overhead cranes, cabling and power feeds, and prepare labor and material estimates.

Working Conditions

• Power Plant Environment—work both inside and outside in all temperatures and climate conditions in accordance with Heat Stress procedures.
• Near 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 callout 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.
• Employee must arrange own transportation to plant and may be assigned to work at another location at the Company’s discretion.

Minimum Requirements

• High School diploma, GED or equivalent.
• Ten (10) years (including apprenticeship) of industrial electric maintenance experience in the repair, inspection, testing, installation and/or maintenance of related power plant equipment, including inspection and preventative maintenance, troubleshooting and diagnostics.
• Valid Driver’s License.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with San Jacinto plant equipment and systems.

Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of electricity, voltage and current relationships.
• Knowledge of plant operations, equipment and skill area to prioritize and schedule tasks.
• Pays attention to detail and demonstrates good organizational skills in daily decision making.
• Knowledgeable of power plant electrical systems and able to do switching to clear circuits for equipment maintenance safely and correctly.
• Knowledge of electrical maintenance requirements used to establish and maintain scheduled electrical maintenance program for the plant’s equipment.
• Ability to demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and listening ability to communicate effectively with management, co-workers, clients, and vendors.
• Ability to produce high quality work with a minimum of supervision or direction.
• Ability to coordinate work activities with other crafts or contractors.
• Ability to work successfully in a team environment; supports other crafts and vendors.
• Ability to use a personal computer and associated software.
• Ability to follow, interpret and act on written and verbal job instructions and reports, technical manuals and data.
• Ability to operate company’s vehicles and heavy equipment and maintain operating licenses and certifications. TDL required.
• Ability to use hand tools and power tools to repair plant equipment.
• Ability to use basic mathematics incl. algebra & geometry to take measurements and perform computations required for installation and calibration of equipment.
• Ability to operate test equipment such as voltmeters, meggers, ammeters, high potential test equipment.
• Ability to diagnose and correct electrical equipment troubles and repairs or recommend major repairs.
• Ability to perform routine and emergency repairs of plant equipment.
• Ability to perform preventive and corrective maintenance on power plant electrical equipment and wiring.
• Ability to perform skilled electromechanical repair work on plant equipment and instruments.
• Ability to inspect, repair, maintain electrical and/or electromechanical operating and control systems, equipment and fixtures, including instrumentation and heating and cooling systems.
• Ability to inspect, repair, maintain wiring and lighting systems, electric meters, electrical control equipment, transformers, AC and DC power equipment, cranes, outlets and panels.
• Ability to clean, test and install batteries.
• Ability to perform electrical tests on Cathodic Protection, install cables and anodes.
• Ability to set up and operate rigging apparatus for installing or removing equipment.

Physical Requirements

• Climb stairways, ladders, and work from aerial devices.
• Daily work expectation requires ability to perform tasks by walking, standing, sitting, kneeling, crouching, squatting, twisting, pushing, pulling, shoveling, climbing, and working with hand tools (up to 25 pounds) in position above and below head, and extended from body to complete repairs.
• Lift, carry, position and use tools and/or equipment (weighing up to 50 lbs.) in awkward positions, swing various weights of sledgehammers, stoop and bend to reach valves, pull on chain-falls or come-a-longs.
• Ability to twist the body and neck while driving company vehicles or operating company equipment.
• Performance of duties may cause frequent jarring of the body.
• Must be able to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as required i.e. steel‑toed boots, respirators, goggles, safety glasses, etc.
• Have ability to discern and respond to verbal and auditory signals.
• Ability to discern assorted colors.

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol‑free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post‑accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing.

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