The Sunrise Power Project is a 585 MW simple-cycle, natural gas-fired facility in Fellows, California. The Instrumentation & Electrical Technician is responsible for station instrumentation, controls, and electrical support, maintenance, and troubleshooting. This position is considered a recognized technical expert and will be expected to ensure the safe, regulatory compliant, efficient, and reliable operation of the facility. The I&E Technician reports to the Plant Operations & Maintenance Manager and technical support services to all personnel.

Essential Roles and Responsibilities

• Performs a variety of complex technical service/support duties requiring specialized knowledge.
• Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain all plant electrical equipment as required to support plant operation.
• Provide leadership and job coordination on critical repairs or projects, as well as routine activities as required.
• Assist in vendor resource planning including requisitioning parts and supplies.
• Assist in NERC compliance maintenance activities.
• Maintain a clean and safe shop and plant environment.
• Performance of duties requires response to calls 24 hours/day, seven days/week and working irregular shifts.
• Recognize safety hazards and follow safety guidelines for personal protection, protection of fellow workers and the protection of the public.
• 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 emissions monitoring equipment as required by air permits.
• Knowledgeable of environmental rules and regulations, and effectively apply them to all work situations.
• Work with limited supervision.
• Follow safety procedures, observe safe working practices, and maintain a safe work environment.
• Inspect, service, calibrate, troubleshoot, repair, test and maintain automated control systems, continuous emission monitors, plant instrumentation and electrical systems.
• Inspects, tests, repairs, replaces as necessary all types of motors, generators, transformers, switches, control equipment, wiring, electrical signal and communications systems and storage batteries.
• Diagnose abnormal equipment conditions and respond calmly in emergency situations to correct problems.
• Perform preventive and corrective electrical maintenance on equipment up to 230 kV.
• Read, write, understand, and maintain equipment logs, operational logs, work orders, procedures, timesheets, expense reports, requisitions and other documentation as required.
• Maintain drawings, specifications, test logs and other records. Read and respond to written instructions and logbook notations. Check e-mail, acknowledgements of information, and other computer-generated documents.
• Work with other plant personnel to plan and coordinate maintenance activities and outages.
• Research equipment manuals and requisition repair parts. Perform mechanical and electrical repairs on equipment. Maintain tool inventories and supplies to perform such tasks.
• Tutor, instruct, train, and assist other personnel as required.
• Maintain a positive company image and constructive relationships with internal and external customers.
• Travel for training and/or other company business. This includes travel by automobile and commercial airlines.
• Operate company vehicles including trucks, forklifts, and other mobile equipment.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as directed.