Operations & Maintenance Technician

Commonwealth Chesapeake
New Church, VA 23415, USA

The Commonwealth Chesapeake Peaker facility is just 3/4 mile south of the Maryland border. Built in 2000, the plant houses seven LM 6000 turbines with a total generating capacity of 315 MW at nominal load. Its strategic location allows for efficient energy production in the region.

As an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Technician, you will be part of a dedicated team responsible for operating and maintaining the facility, performing tasks with minimal supervision across various skill areas. Your duties will include preventive maintenance, calibration, installation, and troubleshooting of critical plant equipment, such as turbines, generators, and control systems. You will also be expected to safely operate machinery, interpret complex schematics, and actively contribute to the site's safety and environmental management plans.

• O&M Technicians work as part of an efficient and motivated team to operate and maintain the facility. These technicians carry out all duties across various skill areas with minimal direction and supervision.
• Instrument/electrical preventive maintenance includes calibration, testing, installation, troubleshooting, and repair of plant equipment, such as process control devices, motors, generators, batteries, transformers, regulators, valves, circuit breakers, disconnecting switches, analog/digital instrumentation, control relays, communication systems, lighting, and auxiliary equipment within the generating station and associated substations.
• Mechanical preventive maintenance includes calibration, testing, installation, troubleshooting, and repair of equipment such as aero-derivative turbines, generators, clutches, motors, pumps, compressors, and auxiliary systems. Additional tasks include vibration analysis, laser alignment, and oil analysis.
• Instrumentation and controls preventive maintenance includes calibration, testing, installation, troubleshooting, and repair of plant hardware and software systems, including the turbine control system (Micro Net), balance of plant control system (Emerson DeltaV), telemetry/SCADA (GE Harris, OSIsoft Pi), plant servers, networking, updates, and security systems.
• Safely operate equipment necessary for job duties, including vehicles, forklifts, man lifts, cranes, hoists, and welding/cutting tools. Utilize appropriate safety equipment and techniques in daily tasks.
• Read and interpret complex blueprints, wiring, and schematic diagrams, and perform both internal and external switching and tagging for mechanical and electrical systems.
• Efficiently use the computerized maintenance management system (Maximo) to generate tasks, work orders, requisitions, and manage spare parts inventory. Maintain accurate logs, records, and pass-down information.
• Actively participate in the site's Safety Management, Environmental, EHS Contingency, and Maintenance Plans, ensuring compliance with safety protocols and regulatory agencies.
• With the appropriate training, perform safe filling, shutdown, unloading, and inspection of diesel fuel handling, storage, and distribution systems.
• Maintain high standards of safety and housekeeping in assigned maintenance areas.
• Collaborate as a team member to achieve plant goals and objectives.
• Ensure thorough information turnover between shifts or during project handoffs.
• Develop procedures, reports, log sheets, and checklists.

The O&M Technician is responsible for maintaining and operating various equipment and components, including:

• GE LM-6000 aero-derivative turbine, controls, and auxiliaries.
• Alstom and Brush 50MW air-cooled generator, controls, and auxiliaries.
• Centrifugal inlet air chillers and controls.
• Rotary…