Senior Engineer - Monitoring & Diagnostics

POSITION: Senior Engineer, Monitoring & Diagnostics

LOCATION: Houston, Texas 

STATUS: Salaried (OT Eligible) 

JOB SUMMARY

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The essential functions of the job include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Analyze engine supervisory and thermal performance data of F-Class Gas Turbines to determine root causes and corrective actions for a variety of operational issues. It would be exceptionally beneficial to have 7EA experience.
• Utilize Process Information (PI) tools for monitoring, analysis and graphical representation of  Gas Turbine and LNG Compressor stations
• Build databases of known field issues and their indicators for reference during troubleshooting.
• Willing to share current knowledge of systems and expand to other engine types and technologies.
• Interact with team of aerothermal and performance engineers to define and develop best approaches and architecture philosophies for GT performance, troubleshooting, diagnostics, and health monitoring models.
• Clearly communicate corrective actions to customers via e-mails and/or phone calls.
• Help refine automated tools and templates as necessary for recurring tasks to improve team responsiveness and productivity.
• U.S. and international travel may be required.
• Respond during working and non-working hours.
• Includes overtime and rotational shifts
• Facilitate and actively work to ensure all quality documentation is correct, complete, timely, and recorded as appropriate.
• Individuals with LNG compressor experience is a plus.
• Looking particularly for individuals who have GE7EA experience used for LNG compressor stations. Should be highly component with at least 1 of the 2 above mentioned components.
• Need individuals with more maintenance and controls troubleshooting experience verse operators of Gas Turbines where little hands on experience has been acquired.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education & Training

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering; another Engineering degree combined with applicable Thermal Performance or Gas Turbine commissioning operations/diagnostic experience will be considered as well in lieu of College degrees.
• Plant Engineers with applicable Gas Turbine and other BOP troubleshooting experience will be equally considered.     
• Must complete EHS assigned regulatory training for work area as described by PSM’s EHS Training Matrix
• Must have knowledge of typical Gas Turbine Instrumentation and controls.

Skills/Experience

• 5 years of experience (minimum) as a start-up/commissioning engineer working on F/G/H/J class combined cycle industrial gas Turbines and associated auxiliaries and systems.
• Experience with Industrial Gas Turbine general architecture and design, knowledge of Gas Turbine support systems and associated supervisory instrument limits and alarm levels.
• Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers consisting of controls, IC&E aerothermal, structural, and mechanical design engineers as well as startup and commissioning engineers.
• Working knowledge and experience with GT control systems (GE- MKVi, MKVie, Siemens – T3K,  MHI- Netmation and or ABB – Symphony or Composer) and OSI PI Soft.
• Candidate should have strong analytical and problem solving skills, and the ability to manage multiple tasks, priorities, and deadlines.  
• Utilize appropriate design/analysis tools as necessary, data gathering and reduction (PI, MS Excel) along with MS office suite of tools for scheduling, reporting, presentations, and others.
• Candidate should have cross functionality knowledge in order to be able to work and coordinate the efforts of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Multilingual candidates are a plus.

Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled