Control Room Operator - Fitchburg, MA

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NE Renewable Power is made up of 7 Biomass electric generating power stations located in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. These stations play a crucial role in supplying locally sourced renewable energy to the people of New England. Sprague brings over 150 years of energy operating experience to the operations of these facilities, and we’re hiring a Control Room Operator for the Fitchburg, MA location.

Who we are: Sprague takes a collaborative, customer‑centric approach to providing best‑in‑class energy products and related services throughout the Northeast. Founded in 1870, we pride ourselves on offering customers the expert solutions and high‑quality service that help their businesses thrive in any market landscape. Sprague values innovation, safety, integrity and people. We know that our people are what set us apart from our competition, and we work hard to make sure each employee across our 20+ locations knows how important they are to our community.

We offer great benefits! Medical benefits and retirement contributions start on your first day!

• 401(k) Traditional and Roth plans with employer match of 100% of the first 6% of the employee’s contribution
• Defined Contribution Plan with an automatic 2.6% contribution from Sprague
• Paid Volunteer Time
• Tuition reimbursement
• Choice of high deductible and PPO Health Plans to fit your individual needs
• Wellness Program

The Control Room Operator (CRO) is the shift lead and is responsible for the safe and efficient, day‑to‑day operation of the power plant. The CRO must be able to operate the PLC‑based control system as well as some of the control room’s older analog systems.

Major

Duties / Responsibilities:

• Start‑up, operate, shut down and secure equipment under normal and emergency conditions from the control room or in the field.
• Troubleshoot and perform basic mechanical skills to assist the facility team with preventative and reactive maintenance activities.
• Understand the process and process components in order to be able to properly access and carry out equipment and system’s proper lock out‑tagout (LOTO), de‑energization, zero energy verification, etc.
• Ensure all plant rounds are completed for the inspections of all facility machinery for malfunctions and / or potential failures.
• Maintain all logs and records as required to record complete operating conditions for the facility and report any irregularities.
• Ability to understand, perform and ensure the completion of facility water chemistry testing and the active dosing and adjustment of control treatment chemicals within recommended limits. Repair and calibrate equipment as required.
• Identify hazardous and/or unsafe conditions or work practices, notify supervisor and take action to correct as required.
• Must have the ability to understand process controls, monitor equipment and evaluate the plant production equipment and output, including efficiency and related variables.
• Monitor process variable feedback from controls (temperature, pressure, flow, etc.) for long‑term variances from normal trends and respond to the variances and issue instructions to ensure continued safe, reliable, and cost‑effective power generation from the facility, while maintaining environmental standards.
• Be able to perform and ensure the routine preventive maintenance of components associated with ash removal, boiler and fuel systems, valves, pumps and other system components.
• Develop and maintain operating procedures to ensure consistent and safe operation.
• Conduct or assist in scheduled and forced outage maintenance work.
• Supervise, coordinate or assist contractors performing work at the facility.

Education / Experience / Skill Requirements:

• Valid driver’s license
• Power Plant operations and/or maintenance experience is required
• Massachusetts 2nd Class Engineer License
• 1 or 2 years related experience and/or training in similar position.
• Knowledge of combustion conditions, gas burner and boiler and turbine generator operations, and water treatment.
• Basic computer skills, including data entry
• Basic math skills
• Good verbal communications skills are essential
• Cooperative and self‑directed in work tasks.
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