Industrial Plant Engineer

Liberty Personnel Services, Inc.; Rochester (MA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Personnel Services, Inc. is seeking a Plant Engineer to own real-time plant performance, analyze data, and drive reliability and safety improvements across boilers, turbines, and control systems.

You’ll lead maintenance strategies, participate in capital projects, and mentor operators in a fast-paced industrial environment. Ideal candidates have a 5+ year track record in power plant or thermomechanical operations, strong Excel and AutoCAD skills, and hands-on experience with DCS/SCADA

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering or equivalent license.
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Responsibilities

• You monitor plant operations in real time and analyze performance data to drive efficiency, reliability, and safety.

Skills

Plant operations optimization

Data analysis & reporting

Troubleshooting & repair

Team mentoring

Communication & collaboration

Independent work

Education

B.S. in Mechanical/Chemical Eng or related license

Tools

AutoCAD

DCS/SCADA

Excel

PLC basics

Job description

Own the heartbeat of a high-performance plant

Keep the plant running. Keep the power flowing.

You’re the engineer who sees the whole system – boilers, turbines, controls, compliance – and knows how to squeeze more performance out of every piece.

In this role, you’ll monitor plant operations in real time, dig into performance data, and turn trends into concrete actions that boost efficiency, reliability, and safety.

You’ll be the go-to problem solver for complex technical issues, from equipment reliability and maintenance strategy to DCS/PLC troubleshooting and capital improvement projects.

Your work directly impacts megawatts, maintenance budgets, and environmental performance.

If you’ve driven reliability and performance in an industrial plant environment, we want to talk to you.

What You'll Work On

You’ll be embedded in the core of plant performance and reliability, with your hands on the systems that truly matter:

• Boilers and steam systems
• Turbines and power generation systems
• Natural gas usage and ISO-NE power MW bidding
• Beneficial reuse water systems and coordination
• DCS, PLC, and SCADA-controlled plant processes
• Predictive and preventive maintenance programs
• NERC compliance and operational documentation
• Ash testing and environmental compliance (TCLP)

You’ll also work heavily with performance and trend data, with Microsoft Excel, AutoCAD, and plant control systems as your everyday tools.

This is where deep plant knowledge, data, a nd real-world constraints collide – and you’re the one making the right call.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent such as a higher-level Stationary Engineering license
• Minimum of five years of experience in an industrial plant environment
• Background preferably in power generation or Thermomechanical Treatment operations
• Strong hands-on experience with equipment design, operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and field commissioning
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including strong Excel skills for data analysis and reporting
• Experience with AutoCAD
• Experience with Distributed Control Systems (DCS)
• Experience with SCADA systems
• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively in a dynamic industrial environment

The Experience That Will Really Get Our Attention

You’ve lived inside industrial plants where downtime is expensive, reliability is king, and every change must be backed by data.

You’re comfortable walking from the control room to the field, talking with operators, reading trends, and then turning that into better performance and fewer failures.

You’re fluent in controls, comfortable with DCS/SCADA/PLC environments, and you naturally think in terms of root cause, NERC compliance, and continuous improvement.

You enjoy mentoring operators and mechanics and setting the standard for technical rigor and safety.

m live operations monitoring and troubleshooting, to engineering analysis, to driving capital projects and reliability programs.

You’ll also play a visible role in safety, environmental compliance and continuous improvement, with .

Minimum of five years of experience in an industrial plant environment is required.

Plant Engineer, Power Plant Engineer, Industrial Plant Engineer, Boiler Engineer, Turbine Engineer, Stationary Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Chemical Engineer, Thermomechanical Treatment, power generation, NERC, ISO-NE, DCS, PLC, SCADA, AutoCAD, Excel, predictive maintenance, preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, boiler reliability, ash testing, TCLP, Facility Detail Model, industrial operations, reliability engineering, capital projects, Lean, continuous improvement.