POSITION: Senior Engineer, Monitoring & Diagnostics

LOCATION: Houston, Texas 

STATUS: Salaried (OT Eligible) 

JOB SUMMARY

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The essential functions of the job include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Analyze engine supervisory and thermal performance data of F-Class Combined Cycle Gas Turbines to determine root causes and corrective actions for a variety of operational issues. Including controls, performance, auxiliaries, BOP
• Utilize Process Information (PI) tools for monitoring, analysis and graphical representation of  Gas Turbine, Steam Turbine and HRSG operations.
• Build databases of known field issues and their indicators for reference during troubleshooting.
• Willing to share current knowledge of systems and expand to other engine types and technologies.
• Interact with team of aerothermal and performance engineers to define and develop best approaches and architecture philosophies for GT performance, troubleshooting, diagnostics and health monitoring models.
• Clearly communicate corrective actions to customers via e-mails and/or phone calls.
• Help refine automated tools and templates as necessary for recurring tasks to improve team responsiveness and productivity.
• U.S. and international travel may be required.
• Respond during working and non-working hours.
• Includes overtime and rotational shifts
• Facilitate and actively work to ensure all quality documentation is correct, complete, and timely and recorded as appropriate.
• Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education & Training

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering; another Engineering degree combined with applicable Thermal Performance or Gas Turbine commissioning operations/diagnostic experience will be considered.
• Plant Engineers with applicable Gas Turbine and other BOP troubleshooting experience will be equally considered.     
• Must complete EHS assigned regulatory training for work area as described by PSM’s EHS Training Matrix

Skills/Experience

• 5 years of experience (minimum) as a start-up/commissioning engineer working on F/G/H/J class combined cycle industrial gas Turbines and associated auxiliaries and systems.
• Experience with Industrial GT/ ST/ GEN general architecture and design, knowledge of GT/ST/GEN support systems and associated supervisory instrument limits and alarms levels.
• Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers consisting of controls, IC&E aerothermal, structural and mechanical design engineers as well as start up and commissioning engineers.
• Working knowledge and experience with GT control systems (GE- MKVi, MKVie, Siemens – T3K,  MHI- Netmation and or ABB – Symphony or Composer) and OSI PI Soft.
• Candidate should have strong analytical and problem solving skills, and the ability to manage multiple tasks, priorities and deadlines.  
• Utilize appropriate design/analysis tools as necessary, data gathering and reduction (PI, MS Excel) along with MS office suite of tools for scheduling, reporting, presentations and others.
• Candidate should have cross functionality knowledge in order to be able to work and coordinate the efforts of an multi-disciplinary team.
• Multilingual candidates are a plus.

Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled