Instrumentation and Electrical Technician

Woodbridge Energy Center is actively recruiting a multi-skilled Instrumentation and Controls Technician who will be responsible for maintaining the facility, while supporting operations as needed.  Selected candidate will be placed in either a single skill position (pending training completion for multi-skill) or directly into a multi-skilled position based upon prior experience. Individuals who have demonstrated experience in the multi-skills at power plants are preferred.

The Woodbridge Energy Center is 2x1 gas fired combined cycle facility utilizing GE 7FA.05 Gas Turbines and D11A Steam Turbine. The facility uses beneficial reuse, or reclaim, water in a counterflow cooling tower for condenser cooling. The 725 MW facility is interconnected to Jersey Central Power and Light and sells power into the PJM market.

Essential Roles and Responsibilities

• Conduct all work activities in a professional, environmentally conscious, and safe manner.
• Ensures operational efficiency, unit reliability and compliance with safety and environmental standards.
• Maintains and executes tactical processes in a team oriented, multi-discipline environment.
• Performs DCS and PLC hardware and logic changes, troubleshooting, and repairs.
• Tests, maintains, calibrates, programs and/or troubleshoots instrumentation, controls, and electrical and mechanical system components/peripheral devices utilizing schematics, vendor manuals and procedures.
• Maintains facility calibration data and oversees calibration program.
• Installs, tests, maintains, and troubleshoots low, medium, and high voltage equipment.
• Interfaces with vendors and contractors to ensure scope of work is completed within time and budget constraints.
• Assists with development of annual budget for appropriate areas.
• Provides accurate detailed work history for reporting, data inputting and archiving.
• Evaluates and recommends equipment and techniques to cost effectively improve plant and maintenance department reliability and efficiency.
• Provides qualified control room and outside operational support.
• Participates in the development of standard operating procedures for routine functions and provides training to other technicians.
• Participates in the development of preventive maintenance procedures for maintaining system hardware.
• Responsible for the safe operation of company owned vehicles.
• Other duties as directed by Supervision.
• Participates in safety programs to minimize personnel injury and property loss.