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Power Plant Mechanic-3

Sentara Health
Norfolk, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/24/2025
City/State

Norfolk, VA

Overview

Work Shift

Third (Nights) (United States of America)

Sentara Health is seeking to hire a qualified individual to join our team as a Power Plant Mechanic

Position Status: Full-time

Position Location: Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia

Position Summary:

The Power Plant Mechanic is experienced in all phases of steam generation, maintenance of boilers, chillers, and auxiliary equipment. Responsibilities include monitoring power plant equipment; reading and interpreting control circuits, schematics, diagrams, blueprints, and specifications to determine proper operation. This individual tests, maintains, and repairs power plant equipment; monitors contractor's work to ensure quality and code compliance.

This Position Falls Under Mission Essential Personnel

Standard Working Hours: This position is for 3rd shift - 11 PM - 7 AM. Holidays and Weekend Shifts are required as scheduled. Rotating shifts, as needed.

Minimum Requirements:

  • Refrig Recovery Cert Type II, or Universal certification required.
  • Refrig Recovery Cert Type III preferred.
  • Driver's License- .
  • Backflow Prevention Device tester's license required in most facilities.
  • High School or Trade School


Sentara Overview

For more than a decade, Modern Healthcare magazine has ranked Sentara Health as one of the nation's top integrated healthcare systems. That's because we are dedicated to growth, innovation, and patient safety at more than 300 sites of care in Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, including 12 acute care hospitals.

Sentara Benefits

As the third-largest employer in Virginia, Sentara Health was named by Forbes Magazine as one of America's best large employers. We offer a variety of amenities to our employees, including, but not limited to:

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

  • Paid Annual Leave, Sick Leave
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Retirement funds with matching contribution
  • Supplemental insurance policies, including legal, Life Insurance and AD&D among others
  • Work Perks program including discounted movie and theme park tickets among other great deals
  • Opportunities for further advancement within our organization


Sentara employees strive to make our communities healthier places to live. We're setting the standard for medical excellence within a vibrant, creative, and highly productive workplace. For information about our employee benefits, please visit: Benefits - Sentara (sentaracareers.com)

Please Note: The yearly Flu Vaccination is required for employment.

Note: Sentara Health offers employees comprehensive health care and retirement benefits designed with you and your family's well-being in mind. Our benefits packages are designed to change with you by meeting your needs now and anticipating what comes next. You have a variety of options for medical, dental and vision insurance, life insurance, disability, and voluntary benefits as well as Paid Time Off in the form of sick time, vacation time and paid parental leave. Team Members have the opportunity to earn an annual flat amount Bonus payment if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

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Job Summary

The Power Plant Mechanic is experienced in all phases of steam generation, maintenance of boilers, chillers, and auxiliary equipment. Responsibilities include monitoring power plant equipment; reading and interpreting control circuits, schematics, diagrams, blueprints, and specifications to determine proper operation. This individual tests, maintains, and repairs power plant equipment; monitors contractor's work to ensure quality and code compliance.

Refrig Recovery Cert Type II, or Universal certification required. Refrig Recovery Cert Type III preferred. Driver's License. Backflow Prevention Device tester's license required in most facilities. For positions at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, Power Plant Operating Engineer 3rd Class or Third Class Stationary Engineer by the District of Columbia preferred.

Qualifications:

HS - High School Grad or Equivalent (Required), TS - Trade School Graduate (Required)

Driver's License - Certification - Other/National, Driver License - Certification - North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles (NCDMV), Driver License - Certification - Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (VDMV), Refrigerant Transition and Recovery Certification Type 3 (LowPressure Appliances) - Certification - ESCO Group, Refrigerant Transition and Recovery Universal Certification - Certification - Other/National

Related experience

Skills

Active Listening, Communication, Critical Thinking, Equipment Maintenance, Equipment Selection, Installation, Leadership, Monitoring, Repairing, Service Orientation, Troubleshooting

Sentara Healthcare prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.

Per Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), some clinical environments require proof of education; these regulations are posted at ecfr.gov for further information. In an effort to expedite this verification requirement, we encourage you to upload your diploma or transcript at time of application.

In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.

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