Operations Maintenance Plant Technician

Overview

Bemana is helping a gas powered electric generation plant in Convoy, OH to find an Operations & Maintenance Plant Technician to join their growing team!

As an Operations & Maintenance Plant Technician
, you'll work under close supervision, perform semi-skilled manual work, maintenance, and operating duties of a minor or routine nature in connection with power plant operation. You'll help to assist in monitoring and inspecting all plant equipment including gas turbines, generators, transformers, pumps, switchyard, and related auxiliary equipment.

• Pay: $55k - $60k/year salary + opportunity for OT. If your target pay is higher, we still encourage you to apply—we could request adjustments based on experience and market conditions.
• 401k + company match.
• RS Plan.
• Health, dental, vision.
• PTO.
• Certifications & Trainings.
• Other excellent benefits!

• Demonstrate ethical behavior and show strong leadership in safe and healthy work behaviors and environmental stewardship.
• Assist in performing equipment checks to ensure proper safe and efficient operations during the start-up, operation and shutdown of turbines, generators, boilers, pumps, exciters, transformers, switchyard, and auxiliary equipment.
• Operate valves, pumps, electrical disconnects, breakers and controls, etc. from remote locations as directed. Report all abnormal plant equipment conditions and alarms to lead O&M Technician or supervision.
• Assist in monitoring field controlling, indicating, and recording devices, and compare results with established standards and make adjustments as required to operating conditions.
• Maintain awareness of plant operations in order to optimize unit economics. Record and track discrepancies or errors and coordinate with others.
• As directed, assist in monitoring, inspecting, installing, removing, testing, adjusting, calibrating, troubleshooting, and repairing electrical, electronic, instrumentation and plant controls systems and components.
• Assist in conducting simple electrical system interlock and circuit breaker trip checks to determine proper operational performance. Perform simple control system monitoring using a computer interface terminal as directed.
• Assist in using elementary, schematic, wiring and control diagrams to locate, troubleshoot and repair control systems involving electrical, electronic, mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic components.
• Operate hoists, fork-lift truck, small tractors, aerial lifts, scissor lifts, mobile cranes, and automotive equipment.
• Operate machine shop and portable machine equipment such as shapers, drill presses and similar machining equipment to produce accurate measurements on all shapes. Master the ability to use appropriate tools and equipment.
• Perform basic predictive and preventive maintenance work by inspecting monitoring, lubricating, troubleshooting, and testing plant equipment to determine conditions such as wear, corrosion, and deposits.
• Learn how to use the work management systems to initiate, retrieve and update work orders, material requests, PMs, and time entry, etc.
• Assist in operating, monitoring, maintaining, and calibrating environmental and industrial hygiene equipment (such as emissions monitoring equipment, noise, and gas detection devices, etc.) in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Conduct JSA briefings with plant employees and contractors.
• As directed, isolate plant equipment and remove stored energy in accordance with the company Clearance Permit Procedure. Assist in obtaining clearance permits and ensure that equipment is properly cleared and tagged before work begins in accordance with the Clearance Permit Procedure.
• Respond to emergency situations as directed. Assist others in maintaining plant security.
• Perform work as identified by other O&M Plant Technicians (Senior and/or Principle level) and plant supervision.
• Assist supervision and other O&M Technicians (Senior & Principle level) by preparing sketches and taking notes for layouts/installation of equipment, new construction and remodeling of buildings.
• Attend and actively participate in environmental, safety and health, technical, business and leadership…