Plant Equipment Operator

The Plant Equipment Operator is a starter position filled with crucial responsibility: ensuring the safe and efficient operation of electric generating and associated subsystem equipment. This position involves monitoring, inspecting, and recording the status of equipment to maintain optimal plant performance. Additionally, the operator contributes to the execution of activities that support sub-function initiatives aimed at achieving efficiency, effectiveness, and innovation objectives.

Process & Technical Accountabilities

• Emissions Control & Environmental Systems: Monitor, troubleshoot, and report on all emissions control and environmental systems to maintain acceptable levels of plant effluents.
• Equipment Malfunctions: Proactively and reactively monitor, troubleshoot, and report any equipment malfunctions.
• Equipment Clearances & Permits: Responsible for granting equipment clearances and hot work permits for maintenance purposes.
• Daily Operating Logs: Review daily operating logs to identify and address any abnormal occurrences.
• Cleaning Duties: Expected to wash, scrub, and clean all assigned equipment and areas within the plant.
• Safety Compliance: Ensure adherence to all company safety procedures, policies, rules, and regulations.
• Coordination with Contractors: Coordinate activities with contractors and outside service personnel to complete unit outages, equipment installations, modifications, and repairs.
• Material Availability: Monitor the availability of necessary materials and supplies, such as hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and log sheets, to maintain unit operations.

Required Skills

• Technical Knowledge: Ideal candidates will have a working knowledge of boilers, turbine generators, and associated equipment in an industrial plant environment.
• Electrical Functions: Some knowledge of electrical functions and a technical background for identifying problems with equipment and controls.
• Gauge Readings: Ability to take readings from gauges and understand the basic system of operation. Must be capable of using various tools, including valve wrenches, shovels, hammers, mauls, and channel locks.
• Spatial Awareness: Ability to judge distance and spatial relationships, which is crucial for safety in the plant environment.
• Physical Requirements: Occasionally required to lift items and equipment weighing up to 30 pounds.
• Writing Skills: Adequate writing skills to produce reports on daily activities, accidents, and incidents.

Qualifications / Education

• Educational Background: High school diploma or equivalent.
• Trainability Test: Successful candidates must pass the operator trainability test to qualify for an interview.
• Shift Work: Must be willing to work a 12-hour shift. (Dupont Schedule)
• Additional Qualifications: A Process Technology Degree or Certification is desired.

Experience level:  3+ years of industrial experience working as an operator in a Power Plant or similar industrial facility

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