Vistra Corp.

Staff - Principal Engineer - Oak Grove Plant

Vistra Corp. • $110K — $130K *
Franklin, TX 77856In-Person
Energy & Utilities
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Chemical, Industrial, Nuclear) from an accredited program
  • Minimum 4 years of relevant job experience
  • Strong teamwork and collaboration skills
  • Effective written and verbal communication abilities
  • Understanding of power generation equipment and economic drivers.

Responsibilities

  • Perform assigned tasks with minimal supervision
  • Organize and analyze information, making recommendations
  • Coordinate projects, studies, and initiatives to completion
  • Comply with safety policies to ensure a safe work environment
  • Prepare and present routine reports
  • Participate in special projects and committee assignments
  • Lead routine problem-solving efforts.

Benefits

  • Occasional long hours and weekend work required
  • Experience working in diverse environments including office and field
  • Opportunity to travel between company facilities and occasional overnight trips
  • Engagement in impactful projects that contribute to operational improvements
  • Professional growth through various project management roles.
Full Job Description
Job Summary
This position works with occasional supervision or direction to perform assigned tasks and coordinate assigned initiatives through completion. The position will maintain effective working relationships with others.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities:

  • Performs assigned task with minimum guidance from supervision
  • Organize and analyze issue specific information and make appropriate recommendations
  • Coordinates assigned projects, studies and initiatives through completion
  • Comply with safety policy and procedures to ensure a safe working environment
  • Prepare and present routine reports
  • Participate in special project and committee assignments as requested
  • Lead routine problem - solving efforts


Education, Experience, and Skill Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Chemical, Industrial, Nuclear) from an accredited program.
  • Minimum 4 yrs. relevant job experience


**LEVEL OF POSITION WILL BE DETERMINED BY APPLICABLE SKILLS AND/OR EXPERIENCE.

Key Metrics:

  • Teamwork and collaboration skills across organizational boundaries.
  • Able to communicate routine issues effectively through written and verbal communication.
  • Maintain effective working relationships across organizational boundaries
  • Understanding of power generation equipment and system interrelationships.
  • Understanding of economic drivers to the business.
  • Able to apply problem solving processes to address routine issues.


Position Specific Job Duties and Skill Requirements

Plant Engineering Support
  • Provide engineering support as assigned to support day to day plant operational and maintenance needs (including forced and planned outages)
  • Provide engineering support and analysis as needed to identify and implement solutions to address plant operational and maintenance issues and improvement opportunities
  • Serve as plant interface with outside engineering resources: Generation Services engineering, 3rd party engineering firms
  • Provide design and specification review as assigned
  • Provide engineering input to maintenance and operational procedures as assigned
  • Collect and analyze plant operational and cost data to identify gaps in performance, develop potential solutions and gain consensus on path forward


Capital and O&M Special Projects Budget Support
  • Support identification and evaluation of capital and O&M special projects needed to support the site's safety, environmental, operational and budget objectives
  • Collect and analyze plant operational and cost data to identify gaps in performance, develop potential solutions and gain consensus on path forward
  • Input and maintain project data and information for assigned capital and O&M special projects in project database
  • Develop stage 1 package documents for assigned projects
  • Run project database reports and provide analysis to support management of the site's capital and O&M special projects budgets


Project Implementation and Execution
  • Serve as Project Manager for assigned projects
  • Serve as Implementation Manager for assigned projects
  • Provide engineering support for projects as assigned
  • Participate in and provide input to project brown paper exercises, scope meetings, kickoff meetings and design review meetings as assigned


Assignments may require:
  • Work on weekends and holidays
  • Work in both an office and field environment
  • Potentially inclement weather conditions


Work Environment
  • Occasional long, irregular hours including work in excess of 12-hour days for extended periods
  • Frequent travel between company facilities, and occasional overnight travel


Job Family
Engineering Services

Company
Oak Grove Management Co LLC

Locations
Franklin, 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
Industry
Energy & Utilities
5 Year Trend
+1460%
NASDAQ
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