Combustion Turbine Specialist - West Lorain

Combustion Turbine Specialist - West Lorain

IHI Power Services Corp, 7101 West Erie Avenue, Lorain, Ohio, United States of America

Posted Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 8:00 AM

Joining IHI Power Services Corporation (IPSC) means you’ll be joining a team in which employees are recognized as the backbone of the company. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes a 401K and provides a range of benefit options covering your wellness needs.

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IPSC provides operations, maintenance, management, and power support services to the US Power Generation Industry across the United States. Our team is comprised of experts from diverse backgrounds of technical fields, including power operations, engineering, asset management, as well as finance, human resources, administration, safety and environmental. With this diverse background coupled with extensive years of employee experience, IPSC provides exceptional operations, maintenance, management, and development expertise to a variety of power assets.

The Combustion Turbine Specialist, under general directive supervision, works with a crew of employees in the operation, maintenance, support, overhaul, and repair of combustion turbines and all auxiliary associated equipment. The location is West Lorain Plant, a 545 MW, simple cycle, dual fuel, combustion-turbine generating station (GE 7EA and 7B) in Lorain, Ohio. The hourly rate range for the position is $42.13 – $52.51 per hour.

• Responsible for compliance with current company safety rules and procedures including operating practices, safety procedures, and all regulatory requirements. Conducts and/or adheres to pre-job briefings for each task.
• Performs the operation, monitoring, and maintenance of combustion turbines, generators or other equipment as assigned; and as necessary, performs the operation by manual control in case of failure to automatic controls.
• Provides operational support as the Control Room Operator (CRO) or Outside Operator as required.
• Observes and records readings of required indicators and/or instruments, for safe operation within prescribed limits.
• Continuously observes equipment operating conditions.
• Periodically records and reports meter readings on generating units and transmission circuits, trouble indications or other abnormal conditions affecting the safe, efficient, and compliant operation of station equipment to the Plant Manager, Plant Dispatcher, coworkers; and otherwise as may be directed by station management.
• Cooperates with other personnel on various tests.
• Installs, adjusts, maintains, troubleshoots, and repairs all mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, electronic, programmer logic controller (PLC), instrumentation, equipment and circuitry associated with the station.
• Performs all types of tests, calibrations and repairs to instrumentation, test apparatus and laboratory equipment. This includes all equipment associated with environmental protection and monitoring.
• Participates in scheduled regulatory certification tests and in the preparation of the required data reports.
• Adheres to all environmental requirements.
• Troubleshoots, repairs, installs, tests, aligns and balances motors, generators, rotating equipment, rectifiers, batteries, transformers, regulators, reactors, circuit breakers, disconnecting switches, instruments, control relays, communication equipment, lightning arrestors and other equipment with control apparatus in the generating station, associated substation, and facility.
• Operates various testing equipment and instruments.
• Performs any mechanical maintenance, installation and repair on station equipment, structures, and buildings.
• Performs pipe fitting, pipe covering, insulation, incidental machining, non-code welding, brazing, flame and arc cutting.
• Operates plant equipment needed to perform job duties including vehicles, cranes, hoists, etc.
• Initiates and performs the Lock Out / Tag Out procedure,…