We are looking for a Instruments and Controls Technician / Electrician for our Arthur Kill Generating Station in Staten Island, NY.

Job Summary:

The IC&E Technician is responsible for the maintenance and repair of all instruments, controls, and electrical systems at the plant in a safe, reliable, efficient, and environmentally compliant manner.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Firm understanding of the safety and environmental over production expectations at Arthur Kill Power.
• Recognize safety hazards and follows safety guidelines for personal protection, protection of fellow workers and the protection of the public.
• Inspects, tests, adjusts, and maintains all instruments, controls, and electrical systems to ensure equipment is in good working condition.
• Performs preventative maintenance duties on all major equipment and systems as well as emergency back-up systems.
• Works on plant distributed control system, including troubleshooting and configuration changes.
• Maintains complete equipment files, logs, and drawings for all designated equipment.
• Helps to forecast needs for parts and equipment, particularly during planned maintenance outages.
• Provides guidance and leadership to the plant through normal and abnormal plant operations while ensuring team safety, environmental compliance, and plant reliability.
• Participates in administrative maintenance of the plant operating manuals, technical references, diagrams, and maintenance records.
• Inspects, tests, repairs, replaces as necessary all types of motors, generators, transformers, switches, control equipment, wiring, electrical signal and communications systems and storage batteries.
• Maintains emissions monitoring equipment as required by air permits.
• Analyzes and interprets a wide variety of technical test data.
• Assists with plant shutdown and start-up including the turbine and all auxiliary equipment.
• Maintains a functional knowledge of the operations software and hardware.
• Assists in the control of quality and productivity while maintaining good housekeeping standards on a continual basis.
• Assists in providing skill enhancement training to other personnel, and on-the-job training to less experienced employees
• Knowledgeable of environmental rules and regulations, and effectively apply them to all work situations.
• Operate computers, printers, and associated software to support plant operational and reporting needs.
• Discern and respond to verbal and auditory signals from operating system.
• Work limited supervision.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Power Plant Environment - Work both inside and outside in all temperatures and climate conditions in accordance with procedures.
• Work with large rotating equipment, energized electrical equipment in high noise areas, and/or in confined places, at elevations in excess of 100 feet, or from platforms at heights of 5 feet or greater.
• Required to work overtime as necessary in the form of additional hours per day and additional days per week as dictated by plant operations including but not limited to call-ins and outages both forced and planned.
• 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.
• Work with and around hazardous and non-hazardous materials (reference the waste management guidance manual).

Minimum Requirements:

• High School diploma or GED and
• 5 years’ related industrial experience including instrumentation system or industrial electrical systems.
• Candidate must pass Arthur Kill Power pre-employment entrance exam.
• OR
• Associates degree in Instrumentation/Electrical related degree and
• 3 years’ related industrial experience including instrumentation systems or industrial electrical systems
• Valid State Driver’s License
• Candidate must pass Arthur Kill Power pre-employment entrance exam.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Detailed knowledge and understanding of the operation of power plant IC&E systems, including instrumentation, controls, and electrical skills.
• Prefer knowledge of P.L.Cs, Emerson control systems.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proficiency reading and interpreting logic diagrams, mechanical and electrical drawings, and technical manuals
• Strong knowledge of plant systems to effectively implement LOTO program

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $36.60 - $63.35 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• On-the-job training
• Professional development assistance
• Tuition reimbursement

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person