Vistra Corp.

Protection & Control Technician Senior -Granbury TX

Vistra Corp.$75K — $90K *
Ennis, TX 75119In-Person
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or GED equivalent
  • 6 years of experience as a P&C Technician or equivalent field experience
  • Completion of P&C S*T*A*R program
  • Field experience in performing protection and control services
  • Willingness to engage in routine travel and extended work hours

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and calibrate protective relays for generation facilities
  • Troubleshoot and repair protection control equipment using schematic diagrams
  • Perform testing on electromechanical and microprocessor relays
  • Calibrate and upgrade plant metering and associated equipment
  • Interface with plant personnel and outside contractors during outages

Benefits

  • Opportunities for routine travel and exposure to various facilities
  • Professional development through completion of industry-specific training programs
  • Engagement in hands-on troubleshooting and repair work
  • Participation in the maintenance of critical energy infrastructure
  • Working in a dynamic and challenging environment
Full Job Description
Job Summary
Under minimum guidance of Lead P&C Technicians: Responsible for maintaining, calibrating, and troubleshooting protection and control equipment for Fossil Generation Facilities
Perform testing of electromechanical and microprocessor protective relays
Perform testing of instrument transformers, transducers, meters and associated equipment
Using schematic diagrams and system knowledge, troubleshoot and repair system protection control equipment and relays
Complete all documentation on projects and field work

Job Description

Key Accountabilities
• Maintenance of all Plant protective relaying and associated control circuits (including testing, calibration, functional tests, trouble shooting, and installation of upgrades), such as:
• Generator relaying
• Main Power Transformer, Unit Auxiliary Transformer, Start-up/Standby Transformer relaying
• All medium voltage switchgear relaying and transfer schemes
• Plant/Switchyard interface relaying
• Maintenance of Plant Metering:
• MWh metering calibrations and upgrade installations
• Voltage, current, watt, var, and frequency transducer calibrations and testing of associated equipment
• Maintenance of ancillary equipment:
• Emergency bearing oil pump test
• Current transformer meggar test
• Outage support:
• Interface with plant I&C personnel

Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements
• High school diploma or GED equivalent
• Completion of all PSD requirements in the P&C S*T*A*R program
• Completion of all PSD requirements in the P&C S*T*A*R program and six (6) years as a P&C Technician or acceptable job related experience.
• Significant amount of time in the field performing P&C services
• Routine travel away from home
• Extended work hours
• Strenuous physical effort such as climbing, lifting, temperature extremes, and dusty environment.

**Level of position will be determined by applicable skills/experience.

Key Metrics
• Interface with outside contractors
• Provide and/or support problem solving using trouble-shooting skills and recorder data
• Lead new installation wiring verification, checkout, and functional test
• Revise and maintain all associated drawings
• Conducts diagnostic tests on generation facilities' electrical equipment (ie: Generator CTs, PTs, and ancilliary equipment).
• Install, calibrate, and maintain equipment associated with data acquisition and remote telemetry to support required ERCOT and NERC protocols

Job Family
Plant Operations

Company
Luminant Generation Company LLC

Locations
Granbury, Texas

Texas

About Vistra Corp.

Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company that provides essential resources to customers, businesses, and communities from California to Maine. Based in Irving, Texas, Vistra is a leader in the energy transformation with an unyielding focus on reliability, affordability, and sustainability. The company safely operates a reliable, efficient, power generation fleet of natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities while taking an innovative, customer-centric approach to its retail business. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Vistra Energy was ranked as the 756th-largest public company in the world. The company owns the Moss Landing Power Plant in California which currently contains the largest battery energy storage system in the world. In 2016, Texas Competitive Electric Holdings, parent company of TXU Energy and Luminant, emerged from Chapter 11. TCEH was then rebranded as Vistra Energy. Vistra acquired Dynegy in 2018. In 2019, Ambit Energy was acquired, resulting in a 32% residential market share in ERCOT, with NRG Energy as its largest competitor. It also acquired Crius Energy in 2019.
Learn more about Vistra Corp.
Size
5,060 employees
Market Cap
$9,272
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