Senior Monitoring and Diagnostic Specialist

Senior Monitoring and Diagnostic Specialist

Full‑time position.

The Senior Monitoring and Diagnostic Specialist will be directly responsible for overseeing the daily use, maintenance, and improvement of advanced predictive models that are used to identify and communicate advanced condition monitoring and data analyses of critical systems, components, and processes, to the assets owners. In addition, the Senior Monitoring and Diagnostic Specialist will compile and distribute detailed Integrated Smart Operations Center analysis reports, which will serve each of client’s generation and transmission business units.

The Senior Monitoring and Diagnostic Specialist will work in an intellectually challenging and rewarding environment, as part of our central and regional asset management team comprised of hydro generation, fossil generation, and transmission data management experts, to ensure that the Integrated Smart Operations Center supports both daily operational analysis needs and long‑term asset management strategic decisions.

Responsible for capturing incipient operating anomalies by applying your specialized understanding of power generation and transmission systems and your specialized operational knowledge of hydro and/or thermal power plant systems. Responsible for using and improving advanced analytics software to aggregate, consolidate, and evaluate operational data into documented asset health reports in support of client’s Asset Health Monitoring and Diagnostic Center and to quantify financial, reliability, and performance improvements related to your findings.

Working independently to gather data to support your monitoring and diagnostic conclusions across our fleet of hydro, thermal, and switchyard assets.

Responsible to investigate, prioritize, and document advisories, convert them into documented ‘cases’ then clearly communicate to site Operations Managers on a weekly basis.

Responsible to prioritize and evaluate advisories, well in‑advance of potential equipment failures, and then promptly interact with hydro and thermal plant personnel to provide recommendations to optimize plant equipment, avoid equipment down‑time, and improve plant systems performance.

Responsible to improve pattern recognition models to identify changes that will have a positive effect on the operating behavior of interacting plant systems, equipment, and components with the goal of ever increasing plant reliability and improving hydrodynamic and thermodynamic performance.

Responsible to use your specialized knowledge of plant systems to evaluate historical data and trend equipment performance, predict heat‑rate and efficiency, and promptly alert asset owners of deterioration within those trends which could adversely affect the reliability, availability, maintainability, and performance of client’s hydro and thermal fleet with the goal of continuously improving client’s Generation and Transmission performance.

Use your specialized knowledge of plant and transmission systems to develop new models and to update, retrain, and evaluate the adequacy of the existing models when equipment is upgraded or replaced.

Create documented reports of critical components by evaluating data to produce useful information through use of advanced (deep machine learning) analytics software.

• A thorough understanding of transmission power systems and a good working knowledge of the client hydro & thermal power generating facilities.
• Operational knowledge of steam and/or hydro turbines, generators, support systems, breakers, and switch gear.
• Knowledge of asset monitoring across transmission asset classes such as transformers, circuit breakers, switch gear, capacitors, phase angle regulators, load tap changers and reactors.
• Strong working knowledge of rotating equipment such as pumps, motors, turbines, generators, and field instrumentation.
• Power plant operational experience and knowledge in power plant equipment and controls, power plant troubleshooting, and systems operations.
• A clear understanding of data management best practices and asset management processes.
• Knowledge and experience using data historians (OSI Pi for example) and other…