What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Operations and Maintenance Technician position at Consolidated Asset Management Services Texas, LLC?
Consolidated Asset Management Services is seeking a Lead O&M Technician to join the team at the highly efficient 1,250MW CPV Three Rivers Energy Center. This role is shift-based (rotating 12-hour shifts) and primarily focused on plant operations. We are looking for candidates with control room operator experience, strong multi-disciplinary technical skills, and prior supervisory experience.
The Lead O&M Technician will be responsible for directing plant operations during shift, ensuring safety and environmental compliance, and maintaining operational reliability. This includes supervising shift personnel, authorizing work and safety permits, responding to plant events, and coordinating with dispatch on unit scheduling and market conditions.
The Three Rivers Energy Center is a highly efficient (2) 1x1 single shaft configuration natural gas combined cycle facility featuring GE 7HA.02 gas turbines and GE A650 steam turbines with air cooled condensers.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Conduct all work activities in a professional, environmentally conscious, and safe manner.
- Assures operational efficiency, unit reliability and compliance with safety and environmental standards.
- Directs plant operations while on shift; authorizes work to be performed
- Authorizes safety permits – LOTO, confined space, hotwork
- Supervises employees assigned on shift
- Collecting, recording and assessing all necessary equipment and Instrumentation data; manually and remotely operates valves and other plant equipment.
- Directing response to plant upset events and emergencies.
- Assists in completion of injury/illness reports and adheres to plant policy guidelines
- Maintain, troubleshoot and repair of all plant equipment to include instrumentation, control systems, mechanical, and electrical equipment.
- Performs and supervises predictive, preventative, and corrective maintenance.
- Responsible to ensure that direct reports are properly trained and is accountable for the qualification of direct reports in areas such as safety, proper operating techniques, tagging, etc
- Closely interacts with dispatching to schedule operating unit activities and keeps them informed of the generating units’ capabilities and associated risk; Stays abreast of market conditions and rules
