Power Plant Operator jobs in Beaumont, TX

The Mechanical Engineer sits on-site at a natural gas plant and plays a key role in the planning and support for the facilities maintenance outages.

The ideal candidate will have a strong knowledge of GE Gas Turbines.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Daily operations monitoring and maintenance support for the plant's gas turbine equipment
• Participation in daily meetings
• Perform periodic review of all related parts and components (New, Used, or Refurbished) for completely, compliance with drawings, damage, etc.
• Develop and oversee storage and preservation plans.
• Verify storage levels.
• Ensure that the “Response Plans” are viable and adequate for the resources, tools, capabilities, and training on hand to minimize downtime.
• Where possible, demo the Response Plans for verification.
• Provide mentorship to company staff on efficient troubleshooting and analysis of issues.
• Ensure all surveillance activities, e.g., operator rounds, M&D, etc. are suitable to detect emerging issues in your discipline. Verify compliance of these surveillance activities.
• Actively monitor all aspects of your scope, role, and responsibilities on a weekly basis to identify changes and risks early. Take corrective and preventive action as appropriate.
• Meet or exceed KPIs for responsiveness, reliability, and availability.
• Conduct detailed maintenance planning, pre-outage, outage, and post-outage planning activities with the company.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related field
• Experience and demonstrated proficiency working with GE Fr 7EA turbines
• 5 years of gas turbine repair and maintenance experience
• Experience performing borescope inspections
• Experience with scheduled, as well as unscheduled, maintenance of gas turbines