Senior Monitoring and Diagnostic Specialist

Senior Monitoring and Diagnostic Specialist

Full-time

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 specialized understanding of power generation and transmission systems and 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 the client’s Asset Health Monitoring and Diagnostic Center and to quantify financial, reliability, and performance improvements related to findings.
• Work independently to gather data to support monitoring and diagnostic conclusions across the fleet of hydro, thermal, and switchyard assets.
• Investigate, prioritize, and document advisories, convert them into documented cases, and clearly communicate to site Operations Managers on a weekly basis.
• Prioritize and evaluate advisories well in advance of potential equipment failures, then promptly interact with hydro and thermal plant personnel to provide recommendations to optimize plant equipment, avoid downtime, and improve plant systems performance.
• Improve pattern recognition models to identify changes that positively affect operating behavior of interacting plant systems, with the goal of increasing plant reliability and improving hydrodynamic and thermodynamic performance.
• Evaluate historical data and trend equipment performance to predict heat-rate and efficiency, promptly alerting asset owners of deterioration within trends that could adversely affect reliability, availability, maintainability, and performance.
• Develop new models and update, retrain, and evaluate existing models when equipment is upgraded or replaced.
• Create documented reports of critical components by evaluating data to produce useful information through advanced (deep machine learning) analytics software.

• A thorough understanding of transmission power systems and a good working knowledge of client hydro and 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 (OSIsoft Pi, for example) and other software tools to analyze and troubleshoot problems.
• A working knowledge of condition monitoring, vibration analysis, and diagnostic technologies.
• A positive attitude and proactive approach to customer needs and requests.
• A proactively curious and questioning attitude regarding subtle changes. Detail oriented.
• Ability to prioritize and plan work with respect to project schedules and emerging conditions to deliver results in a timely manner.
• Strong oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills and the ability to compile clear and concise reports.
• Based in White Plains with approximately 20-25 % travel within NY State and the ability to travel to project sites to coordinate with asset management and technology management teams.
• Ability to staff the iSOC during a declared emergency (storm, system restoration, etc.).
• Preferred
  
  Skills and Abilities
  
  for iSOC Senior Monitoring and Diagnostic Specialist:
• Operating, maintenance and troubleshooting experience with GE, Siemens, Westinghouse, Alstom, ABB or other OEM turbine and generator designs.
• Understanding of similarity-based pattern recognition, plant performance software, or other reliability or condition-based predictive diagnosis software applications.
• Proven track record of…