Power Plant Engineer: Drive Reliability & Improvements

CAMS - Texas; Cheshire Township (OH); On-site; USD 80,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

General James M. Gavin Power Plant in Cheshire, Ohio seeks a Plant Engineer to perform entry- and intermediate-level engineering work, applying engineering knowledge in a safe and responsible manner.

You will lead process evaluations, root cause analyses, and support plant safety, environmental compliance, and maintenance initiatives to improve reliability and profitability. A related engineering degree and proficiency with MS Office are required; five years of power plant experience is

Qualifications

• B.S. or advanced degree in related engineering discipline from an accredited university.
• Commitment to achieving zero harm with respect to safety and environmental compliance.

Responsibilities

• Ability to work in a fast pace complex environment, in both an individual and team capacity.
• Self-motivated and results driven. Must take on new opportunities and challenges with urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Provide technical guidance with respect to all plant activities to ensure compliance with all appropriate local, state and federal environmental control regulations, Occupational Safety and Health Act and other applicable laws and regulations
• Support all Plant Safety & Environmental Policies and Procedures. Keep Safety and Environmental as the top priority with respect to all responsibilities and efforts.
• Promote a continuous improvement culture where energy is utilized to identify and improve business gaps.
• Embrace personal development opportunities, either by exposure or training.
• Ability to lead process evaluations, including materials, temperatures, flows, and pressures involving gases, fluids and solids. Examples of equipment are pumps, conveyors, valves, steam generators, and rotating equipment (turbines, fans, centrifuges, pugmills).
• Execute or coordinate structural analysis reviews and recommendations.
• Execute or coordinate root cause analysis to determine failure mechanisms.
• Ability to lead maintenance or project improvement opportunities.
• Develop a strong working knowledge of facility’s heat rate parameters and improvement opportunities.
• Optimize material, parts, and equipment inventories to maintain facility in a responsible manner.
• Provide guidance, technical and field support for the monitoring, inspection and maintenance of the various plant systems and supporting ancillary equipment.
• Conduct results engineering. This includes conducting performance tests, analyzing operating data, and developing operational plans and equipment recommendations to optimize performance and profitability.
• Recommend and direct strategical improvements to equipment design, operations, and maintenance initiatives.
• Support the development of plant O&M and capital forecast, as well as formulate business cases.
• Responsible for project KPI’s: safety, environmental, budget, schedule, quality, reliability, etc.
• Ability to develop technical/construction work scopes and thoroughly review technical proposals.

Skills

Power plant experience

Safety compliance

Education

B.S. or advanced degree in related engineering

Tools

OSIsoft PI

AMS Machinery Manager

Emerson Ovation

ABB S+ Engineering

Allen-Bradley PLC-5

SLC-500

ControlLogix 5000

Job description

General James M. Gavin Power Plant in Cheshire, Ohio seeks a Plant Engineer to perform entry- and intermediate-level engineering work, applying engineering knowledge in a safe and responsible manner.

You will lead process evaluations, root cause analyses, and support plant safety, environmental compliance, and maintenance initiatives to improve reliability and profitability. A related engineering degree and proficiency with MS Office are required; five years of power plant experience is