Position Summary:This position is responsible for but not limited to the preventive, predictive, corrective maintenance, and troubleshooting, including the combustion fuel / air ratio controls, refractory repair, and improvement projects associated with fired equipment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:- Develop and maintain a culture of safety
- Develop and maintain compliance associated with all laws including but not limited to Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental
- Required to supervise contractors used during special circumstances such as shutdowns, projects, or maintenance
- Ability to perform installation, start up, repair and tune up work on combustion systems and fuel trains
- Able to train other employee's on the operation of combustion systems and fuel trains
- Must be able to read and work from schematics
- Must have the ability and knowledge to trouble shoot systems with no schematic
- Diagnose malfunctions of equipment to determine cause and appropriate corrective action
- Will need to perform preventative maintenance tasks according to established protocols
- Competency to conduct a complete combustion analysis, determine drafting, and make recommendations to optimize burner control systems
- Maintain and update HMI and PLC programs for combustion and safety systems for fired equipment
- Be proficient with portable combustion analyzers
- Write tuning / startup reports from all field visits
- Specify Replacement Parts
- Able to work with client to get or get the correct people together for additional opportunities
- Understanding of NFPA 70 / 85 / 86/ 87
- Ability to spec, setup, and commission VFD's
- Verify basic thermodynamic principles to plant processes and fired equipment
- Ability to read and understand fan curves and capability to diagnose fan issues
- Understands flow characteristics of each type of flow control valve
Qualifications:- Nine (9) or more years of controls and instrumentation
- Combustion systems and fault finding
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Engineering or Technical Degree Preferred but Not Required
The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. 
