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Job Summary:

Under the direction of head operator or supervisor, Plant Operator Trainees operate and monitor auxiliary equipment and systems that support the safe, efficient, reliable, and environmentally sound production of electricity.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Recognizes safety hazards and follows safety guidelines.

• Operate, inspect, and monitor in a safe, efficient, reliable, and environmentally sound manner steam power plant equipment including (i.e. steam generators, turbines, generators, auxiliary equipment and systems, environmental control process equipment, and water treatment systems).
• Observe variations in operating conditions and interpret meter and gauge readings.
• Monitor and record data available using various instruments, recording charts, annunciator systems and other monitoring devices onto shift logs as directed by plant operational procedures.
• Perform checks (e.g., PM’s) on running and idle equipment.
• Perform routine cleaning of work area.
• Employee must arrange own transportation to work location and may be reassigned to another location at the Company’s discretion
• High School Diploma or GED

with

• 2 years power plant operations or industrial maintenance

OR

• military experience working on turbines, boilers, or similar plant related process or equipment.
• Must have a valid state driver’s license.
• Successful candidates must receive a rating of Recommended on the NRG Pre-employment Assessment Test.
• Candidate must pass a DOT pre-employment drug test

Preferred Qualifications:

• Possess or obtain within 60 days an Associate’s Degree in Process Technology or related field.
• Demonstrated experience in an industrial, farm, or military environment working multiple shift schedules.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs):

• Ability to operate various switches and valves and knowledge of the effect each has on the total operation of the generating station.
• Ability to work without supervision while carrying out duties.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks or assignments at the same time.
• Ability to communicate plant system and equipment conditions on to others.
• Ability to discern and respond to verbal and auditory signals from control panel.
• Ability to monitor, comprehend, and record data available through the use of various instruments, recording charts, annunciator systems and other monitoring devices onto shift logs as directed by plant operational procedures.
• Ability to Tag Out/Lock Out equipment per NRG’s Tag Out/Lock Out procedure.
• Ability to perform checks (e.g., PM’s) on equipment.
• Ability to operate companies’ vehicles and equipment (e.g. forklift, plant vehicle, etc.) and maintains operating licenses and certifications. TDL is required.
• Ability to use a personal computer and associated software.
• Ability to use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to perform flow, pressure and meter calculation.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, schematic diagrams, procedures and technical manuals.
• Ability to record and analyze readings of various electrical and mechanical meters.
• Ability to generate work notifications for execution of equipment repair.
• Ability to communicate information clearly, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to operate various computer systems to receive, analyze, comprehend and input data.
• Ability to perform routine laboratory tests and analysis on boiler water and make-up demineralizer samples.
• Ability to work successfully in a team environment.
• Ability to assist others in performance testing

Physical Requirements:

• Power Plant Environment-Work both inside and outside in all temperatures and climate conditions in accordance with Heat Stress procedures. Work around large rotating equipment, energized electrical equipment in high noise areas, and/or in confined places, on elevations in excess of 250 feet, or from platforms at heights of 5 feet or greater.
• Must be prepared to work irregular or rotating shifts and respond to emergency callout 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
• Ability to work in mentally stressful environments: must be able to react to crises where immediate action is required to correct or curtail potentially damaging or hazardous situations.
• Daily work expectation requires ability to perform tasks by walking, standing, sitting, kneeling, crouching, squatting, twisting, pushing, pulling, shoveling, climbing, and working with hand tools (up to 25 pounds) in position above and below head, and extended from body to complete repairs.
• Lift, carry, position and use tools and/or equipment (weighing up to 50 lbs.) in awkward positions, swing various weights of sledgehammers, stoop and bend to reach valves, pull on chain-falls or come-a-longs.
• Ability to twist the body and neck while driving company vehicles or operating company equipment.
• Performance of duties may cause frequent jarring of the body.
• Work with and around hazardous and non-hazardous materials (reference the waste management guidance manual).
• Must be able to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as required i.e.…steel-toed boots, respirators, goggles, safety glasses etc.
• Ability to discern assorted colors.

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

Official description on file with Human Resources.