Job Title: Control Room Operator
Location: Elmendorf, TX (onsite)
Pay rate: $ 50 an hour
Benefits: 401(k), Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
Contract Duration: 12 months contract (possibility of being permanent/extension)
JOB DESCRIPTION
Must Have
High School Diploma or equivalent
Working Environment:
Indoor and outdoor work, walking, standing, sitting, hearing, bending, crouching. Employees may be subject to extreme noise, extreme temperatures, uneven ground, and hazardous conditions. Ability to operate an assigned motor vehicle. Use of personal computing equipment, telephone, multi-functioning printer, and calculator. Shift work and holiday hours are required.
Shift Specifics:
12-hour shifts rotating days and nights with 36 and 48 work hours per/week.
Physical Demand:
Requires standing, lifting, kneeling, twisting, and climbing stairs, and Ladders. Requires wearing personal protective safety equipment. Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
- Ensures all safety rules and regulations are followed including the coordination and supervision of equipment isolation and Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO) procedures.
- Ensures that the power plant is operating within all established guidelines, and state, federal environmental, and regulatory compliance obligations.
- Ensures compliance with the Energy Conduct of Operations Manual.
- Complies with all Safety Procedures, Policies, and guidelines. To include LOTO procedures
- Monitors safety and security performance of plant personnel and the public during emergency response situations, e.g., fires, explosions, high-pressure steam/water leaks, chemical spill/release events, sabotage, and lake releases.
- Monitors performance and provides guidance related to adherence and compliance with all OSHA, TCEQ, EPA, NERC, ERCOT, Texas RE, and PUC requirements.
- Responsible for the proper start-up, operation, and shutdown of assigned generating units, and the coordination of load and/or voltage output increases and reductions with QSE and TO.
- Make rounds documenting unit parameters and performance. Reporting any deficiencies and or equipment issues that could lead to a unit derate, trip, or forced outage.
- Support the operations team during winter and summer-related events.
- Responsible for general housekeeping and cleanliness of assigned equipment and the overall plant.
- Responsible for daily coordination of weekly maintenance and outage scheduling and establishing maintenance priorities.
- Responsible for reviewing procedures, checklists, and plant system drawings (P&IDs).
- Responsible for ensuring equipment deficiencies (operating outside of established guidelines) are identified and appropriate work notifications/requests are generated within the maintenance management system.
- Responsible for procedural adherence to established critical power plant operating procedures.
- Responsible for ensuring compliance with all policies for self, and all operating staff.
- Must be willing and able to work rotating shifts, overtime, when necessary, storm/emergency conditions, nights, weekends, holidays, etc.
- Proficiently performs control room operator, turbine tender, and auxiliary operator job requirements.
- Ability to work well under pressure, remaining focused and calm in the face of distractions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, detail, active listening, speaking, coordination, social perceptiveness, critical thinking, judgment, and decision making, monitoring, reading comprehension, oral comprehension, oral expression, speech clarity, speech recognition, problem sensitivity, written comprehension, deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, written expression.
- Ability to utilize PI Historian to trend operational parameters in support of troubleshooting efforts.
- Ability to navigate to Alarm Lists and Sequence of Events reporting to identify causes of process upsets.
- Ability to pass a respirator fit test and maintain facial hair in accordance with safety policies.
Preferred Qualifications
- A minimum of 5 years experience as a Control Room Operator.
- Superior working knowledge of all conventional designs of thermal units, combined cycle units, heat recovery steam generators (HRSG), simple cycle gas turbines, steam, mechanical, electrical, and chemical systems, and their appropriate integrations for efficient, safe, and effective production.