Engineer

Job Description

• Provide engineering support for capital project execution at the Fort St. Vrain power plant.
• Responsibilities include design reviews, maintaining design basis accountability, technical oversight for capital projects, supporting new combustion turbine projects (Units 7 & 8), reviewing technical questions, and ensuring engineering standards are met.
• Work on capital execution projects, perform design reviews, provide technical feedback, support project scoping activities, review P&IDs, and collaborate with operations, project managers, and contractors on technical issues throughout project lifecycles.
• Will interact with:
• 3 to 4 project managers/project personnel
• Operations management team (approximately 3 managers)
• Site crafts personnel
• Major Projects team
• External partners including Jacobs, Burns & McDonnell, and QI/Quit-related project teams supporting Units 7 & 8.
• Collaborative environment requiring interaction with operations, project managers, and contractors, while also functioning as an independent contributor responsible for driving engineering reviews and project support activities.
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (typically Mechanical or Chemical Engineering preferred)
• Approximately 5 years of relevant experience
• Required awareness of confined spaces, lockout/tagout procedures, and other plant safety requirements.
• Combined cycle power plant experience
• Fossil power plant/power generation experience
• Technical design reviews
• P&ID (Piping and Instrumentation Diagram) review experience
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Familiarity with simple-cycle combustion turbine projects preferred
• Proactive mindset
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Strong collaboration skills
• Self-directed work style
• Communication skills across cross-functional teams
• Power plant, plant engineering, reliability engineering, or industrial facility experience
• Candidates should already have familiarity with equipment and plant operations due to limited ramp-up time available.
• Reliability engineering experience
• Plant engineering experience
• Mechanical systems expertise
• Chemical engineering background
• Power generation experience
• Simple cycle combustion turbine experience
• Mechanical design review experience involving piping, valves, and equipment specifications.
  
  

Benefits

Healthcare Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents healthcare coverage through BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics. Premiums are subsidized by Synectics.

Dental Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents a dental plan through MetLife. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.

Vision Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees vision insurance through VSP. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.

401(k) Plan: The Synectics Inc. Investment Savings Retirement Plan. Synectics offers all employees who are 21 years of age or older the opportunity to invest in the 401(k) Plan on the first of the month following at least 1 calendar year after employment begins.

Synectics is an equal opportunity employer.