Calpine

IC&E Technician III

Calpine$89K — $111K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma, technical/vocational degree, or equivalent.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in instrument/electrical and control system applications.
  • Strong mechanical aptitude with advanced understanding of chemistry, physics, electricity, and mathematics.
  • Experience with DCS programming including Emerson Ovation and Allen Bradley ControlLogix platforms.
  • Ability to calibrate and troubleshoot field instrumentation and maintain documentation.
  • Advanced certifications/licensures and a valid state driver's license.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the site’s DCS and controls specialist, configuring and maintaining control systems.
  • Monitor, maintain, and repair gas turbine and steam turbine control systems.
  • Optimize the plant preventative maintenance program to meet OEM recommendations.
  • Provide technical expertise on escalated DCS and controls issues.
  • Maintain DCS network architecture, historian, and cybersecurity posture.
  • Independently prioritize and execute responsibilities effectively.
  • Train others on complex technical areas.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness plans.
  • Opportunity for career growth within the company.
  • Training and development programs for skill advancement.
  • Supportive work environment emphasizing safety and health.
  • Access to the latest technologies in control systems.
Full Job Description
Job Summary (includes but is not limited to the following; other duties may be assigned)

Maintains and repairs electrical equipment and instrumentation. Serves as the site's Distributed Control System (DCS) and controls specialist, configuring, programming, and maintaining plant DCS and PLC platforms, including Emerson Ovation and Allen Bradley ControlLogix, that govern gas turbine, steam turbine, and balance-of-plant operations. Monitors, maintains, and repairs gas turbine and steam turbine control systems, generator excitation systems (e.g., GE EX2100), transformers, and switchgear. Maintain, calibrate and repair plant electrical, instrumentation, and control systems. Perform routine trouble shooting activities at the I/O, logic, and network level to minimize unplanned downtime. Use Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to effectively accomplish required maintenance in and efficient and organized manner. Optimize plant preventative maintenance program to meet OEM recommendations, regulatory requirements, and corporate maintenance philosophy. Responsible for maintaining logs, manuals, records, blueprints, control system documentation, and operating procedures in a neat and professional manner. Provide written reports on control system conditions, root cause analysis, and corrective actions when required. Incorporates safe behavior into all activities and consistently complies with all established safety and health policies and procedures, helps to identify and eliminate or actively manage risks in all work activities.

Job Responsibilities

  • Senior-level; recognized technical expertise in own and possibly related functions.
  • Serves as the subject matter expert and technical resource for DCS and controls issues escalated by operations and maintenance, developing and modifying control logic, graphics, and alarm management strategies to improve operator situational awareness.
  • Maintains DCS network architecture, historian, and cybersecurity posture in coordination with IT/OT security requirements, and supports outage planning and execution for DCS/controls scope, including system upgrades and migrations.
  • Performs a variety of complex technical service/support duties requiring specialized knowledge.
  • Regularly makes decisions on non-routine or escalated technical issues.
  • Independently prioritizes and executes responsibilities effectively for a single trade, group of related tasks or functional area.
  • Checks own work and possibly the work of others; work results are of the highest quality standards and advanced technical competency.
  • Errors may be serious, usually not subject to direct verification or check.
  • Duties and tasks reflect substantial variety and complexity.
  • Resolves the most complex technical issues, conferring with Team Leader occasionally; may serve as resource to others in resolution of complex issues.
  • Works under limited supervision.
  • Prioritizes own weekly schedule and may guide others in the completion of tasks within clearly defined schedules as set by management.
  • Regularly provides on-the-job skills training to others in complex technical areas.


Job Requirements

  • High School Diploma, degree from technical/vocational school or equivalent.
  • Senior-level; minimum of 5 years of experience in instrument/electrical and control system applications.
  • Strong mechanical aptitude with an advanced understanding of chemistry, physics, electricity and mathematics.
  • Experience with DCS programming and configuration, including Emerson Ovation and Allen Bradley ControlLogix platforms.
  • Ability to calibrate and troubleshoot field instrumentation (pressure, temperature, flow, level transmitters) and maintain instrument loop documentation and P&IDs.
  • Advanced certifications/licensures. Valid state driver's license.


Salary Information

  • Hourly Rate Range - $42.9162 to $53.6452 /hour

About Calpine

Calpine Corporation is a power generation company headquartered in Houston, Texas. Calpine's fleet of natural gas-fired and geothermal power plants has a combined generating capacity of approximately 26,000 megawatts. Calpine sells wholesale power and other energy-related services to utilities, independent electric system operators, industrial and commercial customers, and retail power providers. The company was founded in 1984 and went public in 1996. In 2018, Calpine was acquired by Energy Capital Partners and a consortium of investors.
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