Combustion Turbine/Combined Cycle Central Engineering Position – PJM Fossil Fleet

Description

• Assist in the work on smaller engineering projects or well-defined areas of larger projects.
• Participate as a member of the Power Users Group as well as OEM Users Groups for the Talen specific combustion turbines.
• Focus on maintaining or improving equipment condition and performance, being cognizant of available techniques and practices.
• Prepare and maintain necessary technical documentation and operating and performance history records.
• Provide technical support and guidance to the fossil plants in areas of expertise to identify, analyze, and resolve equipment and system problems
• Interface with management teams, project teams, and other disciplines within the engineering group to solve complex tasks.
• Coordinate with vendors as applicable, for related products and services.
• Support the plants with planning and implementation of maintenance outages.
• Assist in a variety of topics including developing innovative procedures, improved design recommendations or new or better equipment purchase recommendations.
• Assist plant maintenance and operations with troubleshooting activities during planned or forced outage events
• Build relationships that will facilitate knowledge transfer, cross functional knowledge of related work groups, and ability to present work products effectively.
• Identify and assist in resolution of emergent equipment issues.
• Staying up to date with industry wide issues, corrective actions, and tracking open Technical Information Letters (TILs) from the OEM.
• Use existing procedures to investigate, evaluate and assist in producing technically correct and cost-effective designs or recommendations that solve ongoing problems.
• Gather and correlate basic engineering data using well defined engineering procedures, which may include routine and diagnostic testing of components and systems, and engineering studies.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years experience in combined cycle power generation engineering.
• Minimum 5 years’ related engineering experience.
• Experience with predictive maintenance technologies such as vibration analysis, thermography, and lubrication monitoring.
• A working knowledge with GE and/or Siemens F class and H class combustion turbines (both single and multi-shaft designs).
• Professional Engineer registration in Pennsylvania (for principal engineer position)
• Minimum 10 years’ experience, with recognized expertise in power plant engineering.
• Combined cycle plant and large gas turbine experience.
• Experience working with other large rotating equipment (turbines, generators, fans, pumps).
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, engineering technology, or other related science discipline from a college or university accredited by ABET, or recognized by ABET as substantially equivalent.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance