What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Electrician position at NRG?
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The Electrician is responsible for maintenance support to troubleshoot, test, calibration, and properly operation of all electrical systems at the plant which include boilers, turbines, generators, and all auxiliary equipment for the plant.
Essential Duties / Responsibilities :
- Firm understanding of the safety and environmental over production expectations at NRG.
- Perform all electrical preventive and corrective maintenance duties on all electrical plant equipment and systems.
- Inspect repair, install, and remove all types of motors, generators, transformers, switches, plant lighting, control equipment, wiring, electrical signal and communication systems, and storage batteries, and work with electrical systems up to and including 4160 volts and including 125 VDC systems.
- Use a wide range of test equipment, including recorders, computers, and control and tuning modules, PC based software analyzer programs, oscilloscopes, data analyzers, logic test equipment, and analog and digital multi-meters and other test equipment, while performing tests to identify problems and to maintain and calibrate equipment to performance standards.
- Make regular inspection rounds of plant electrical equipment in accordance with the national electrical code.
- Assist in developing detailed preventive and predictive maintenance procedures for plant electrical control equipment
- Safely connect, disconnect, and tag out equipment and circuits for testing or repair.
- Properly ground High Voltage systems throughout the facility.
- Install and remove wiring, conduit, fixtures, transformers, and other electrical devices in the size, type, and arrangement necessary for proper and safe operation of electrical systems, circuits, and equipment.
- Troubleshoot, inspect, test, maintain, repair, clean and calibrate instrumentation, solid state controls and microprocessor-based control equipment including plant communications equipment, programmable controllers, generator excitation equipment, battery chargers, UPS units and semi-conductor devices.
- Thorough knowledge of High Voltage in respect to coordinating / supervising a contractor work force.
- Pull cable, install, and bend conduit.
- Maintain complete equipment files, logs, and drawings for all designated equipment.
- Assist with forecast, inventory, and reordering spare parts to maintain plant reliability.
- Assist in physical inventories.
- Participate in the administrative maintenance of the plant operating manuals, technical references, prints and diagrams, and preventative / predictive maintenance records.
- Operates from established and well-known procedures under minimum supervision, performing duties independently with only general direction given.
- Makes decisions within prescribed operating and casualty procedures and guidelines.
- Executes recurring work situations of high complexity, with occasional variations from the norm.
- Effectively communicate information to management and plant personnel relative to the condition of plant equipment and performance.
- Provides suggestions for improvements.
- Performs duties in a safe and environmentally compliant manner that results in effect operations and cost.
- Comply with plant policy and procedures, in particular, those involving personnel and equipment safety.
- Operate computers and printers.
- Discern and respond to verbal and auditory signals from the operating system.
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Please Note : Salary offered will be commensurate with the successful candidate's education and / or experience and consistent with the job location's market pay rate.
NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M / F / Vet / Disability. Level, Title and / or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.
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