Mechanical Engineer

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Provide support for process improvements, performance monitoring, root cause analysis, engineering and construction activities, and operating and maintenance functions to ensure safe and efficient plant operation.

Balance of Plant, PDM

• Provide direction to operations and maintenance departments to insure that plant equipment remains reliable. This includes both technical and financial decisions which impact the overall unit availability and cost control.
• Provide technical support, testing and inspection expertise within their assigned process areas to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient plant operation.
• Optimize station equipment operation to meet key performance indicators
• Develop O&M and Capital budgets for the process equipment. Assemble ten year plans and budgets for projects to establish accurate projected cash flows out into the future.
• Develop strategic plans for equipment overhauls to optimize equipment life and time between overhauls.
• Develop outage schedules, coordinate and perform outage inspections for all process equipment.
• Utilize predictive and preventative maintenance (PM/PDM) techniques to monitor and improve equipment. Evaluate and analyze process variables to identify status and trending of key operating parameters.
• Conduct root cause analysis of equipment problems and provide recommendations to prevent future incidents. Assemble all equipment failure reports.
• Develop, review & revise station procedures & technical instructions and documentation of equipment testing and inspections.
• Provide engineering, design, economic justification, and specify parts and materials for projects and modifications. Implement projects and process modifications.
• Conduct or procure training as required within their process.
• Interface with outside engineering resources on an “as-needed” basis.
• Work effectively in a team environment as a leader, member and/or facilitator.
• Perform other duties and assignments as required.

• Overall operation and maintenance of large rotating equipment including but not limited to: bearing operation and maintenance, precision alignment of rotating equipment couplings, vibration analysis and balancing, and non-destructive examination techniques for materials.
• Knowledge of the operation and maintenance of large pumps and associated systems such as high volume/low head circulating water pumps, multi-stage vertical pit pumps, multi-stage high head boiler feed pumps, and other simpler pump applications.
• Knowledge and experience in performing vibration analysis on typical equipment used at a power plant.
• Experienced in collecting and analyzing thermography data on collected electrical as well as mechanical equipment and use analysis results to provide recommendations to repair/maintain plant equipment.
• Knowledge and experience in oil analysis, which includes lubricating oils used in power plant equipment, such as turbines, gearboxes, fluid drives and transformers.
• Must be able to collect and analyze motor current data and use the analysis results to provide recommendations to repair/maintain motors.
• Experience in rotating equipment balancing, which includes in situ balancing as well as component balancing using a balance stand.

• Knowledge of the concepts, construction, and operation of the turbine process steam cycle as it relates to a fossil steam power plant including basic thermodynamics.
• Experience in maintenance and operation of all plant air supply systems, including station air, instrument air, and soot blowing air where applicable.
• Knowledge and experience of service water systems, including low pressure systems, high pressure systems, closed cooling water systems,…