Mechanical Engineer II; P4 Mechanical

Leads research, design, and development activities to improve NYPA’s energy services. Designs, constructs, and tests equipment. Ensures that standards of quality, cost, safety, reliability, timeliness, and performance are met throughout all engineering activities.

Leads research, design, and development activities to improve NYPA’s energy services. Designs, constructs, and tests equipment. Ensures that standards of quality, cost, safety, reliability, timeliness, and performance are met throughout all engineering activities. Provide technical expertise to power-producing machines, such as generators and turbines, as well as rotating machines, such as refrigeration and building systems and fire protection. Ensures that standards of quality, cost, safety, reliability, timeliness and performance are met throughout all engineering activities.

Duties will include leading and supporting reliability, performance, and maintenance programs across the SENY fleet of combustion turbines, simple cycle units, and combined cycle plants.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop, implement, and maintain performance programs to enhance the operation and maintenance of the SENY combustion turbine fleet, including establishing heat rate targets and tracking performance results.
• Conduct and document thermal performance balancing for combined cycle and simple cycle plants; develop formal performance verification procedures.
• Lead vibration analysis initiatives across SENY facilities, diagnosing machinery issues such as misalignment, oil whip, and other mechanical abnormalities through advanced vibration analytics.
• Implement and manage a thermographic analysis program for mechanical and electrical equipment; obtain and maintain certification as a qualified thermographic analyst.
• Administer a comprehensive lubrication program, reviewing lubrication products, frequencies, and analysis results. Recommend oil consolidation where appropriate and determine corrective actions based on lube oil reports.
• Perform economic and performance modeling to support decisions on equipment additions, deletions, or upgrades. Analyze pump curves and related performance data using PI and Eta Pro software.
• Recommend corrective actions and performance enhancements for problematic equipment; actively participate in condensate pump reviews, diagnostics, and testing activities.
• Lead Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) efforts for SENY, including completion of the RCM process for critical systems such as condensate pumps.
• Facilitate Root Cause Analyses (RCA) utilizing tools such as Taproot or Think Reliability.
• Review cathodic protection preventive maintenance results and recommend improvements based on findings.
• Support vendor activities during Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) inspections, including verification of required repairs and ensuring adherence to engineering and safety standards.

• Provide lead engineer function in support of a wide range of design modification projects, equipment applications and failure research, engineering studies, and operations and maintenance activities.
• Perform site visits to complete field condition assessments, and equipment evaluations and develop technical recommendations with moderate complexity.
• Perform occasional emergency response, including outside of normal business hours.
• Independently coordinate cross disciplinary activities for the successful development and execution of projects.
• Select and apply codes, standards and procedures to work tasks appropriately.
• Perform evaluations to ensure engineering requirements and Authority specifications are satisfied.
• Provide technical leadership in state-of-the-art engineering and analytical techniques.
• Review designs, calculations,…