Qualified Mechanic

Qualified Mechanic Job Highlights

Company Profile

NRG Energy is one of the leading integrated power companies in the U.S. and Canada. The company is powered by people and built on dynamic retail brands with diverse generation resources. It aims to create a sustainable energy future by bringing the power of energy to people and organizations.

Job Profile

The company is seeking a Qualified Mechanic who will under direct or general supervision regularly and customarily performs the most skilled type of work on general machine shop equipment and makes mechanical repairs to all types of steam and diesel equipment.

Educational Qualification

• Applicants should have a High School Diploma or GED equivalent

Work Experience

• Must have 3 years of industrial mechanical experience in the repairs, inspection, or maintenance of power plant or machine shop equipment including inspection and preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, fabricating, and diagnostics.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Aligns motors and steam-driven equipment and trues and balances rotating equipment.
• Assists special representatives during major inspections of turbines and other major power plant machines and equipment.
• Communicate effectively verbally and in writing with management and other personnel.
• Directs and assists in providing skill enhancement training and instructs others assigned to assist him or her.
• Do carpentry, joinery, and other plant building maintenance and incidental construction work
• Does gas or arc welding equipment to perform mechanical repairs and fabricated plant equipment.
• Does miscellaneous cutting, operates oxygen and acetylene torches
• Does pipefitting type work that does not include instrument lines or tubing.
• In addition to the above and other related work of a similar grade, a Qualified Machinist will be assigned to any other work of equal or lesser skill within the capabilities of the individual, to meet emergencies or other operating needs
• Knowledge of environmental rules and regulations and effectively applies them to all work situations.
• Makes, or assists in making, internal inspections of turbines, fans, pumps, condensers, air ejectors, regulating valves, and other similar or related equipment.
• Operates lathes, planers, drill presses, and milling machines on the most complicated assignments, or those requiring extremely close tolerances.
• Operates power equipment (forklift, cranes, high-reach, scissor lift, etc.) and automotive equipment when required.
• Performs preventative and corrective maintenance plans on mechanical equipment including PdM activities.
• Recognize safety hazards and follows safety guidelines.
• Replaces bearings, packing in pumps and valves, shaft sleeves, seats, and other miscellaneous parts used in power plant equipment.
• Performs housekeeping duties as assigned.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Ability to certify as a pressure welder (preferred). As certified, candidates must have the ability to make welds on vessels, valves, turbines, boilers, piping, etc.
• Must be able to climb stairways, and ladders, work from man lifts, and perform tasks by walking, standing, sitting, kneeling, shoveling, climbing, and lifting tools and equipment weighing up to 50 lbs.
• Must be able to work inside and outside in all temperatures and climate conditions in the Power Plant Environment. Work around the large rotating equipment, energized electrical equipment, high-noise areas, or confined spaces.
• Must be able to exercise judgment acceptable to the Company in a matter of relatively moderate importance and limited scope.
• Must be and remain thoroughly familiar with the Company’s safety rules applicable to this and related jobs. Must be capable of applying resuscitation and be able to render practical first aid.
• Must be familiar with the maintenance of all types of mechanical power plant equipment.
• Must be qualified to regularly direct and instruct others helping on the same or related work.
• Must be skilled in the use of portable power tools, hand tools, and measuring instruments.
• Must be thoroughly familiar with the Company’s electrical and mechanical tagging rules.
• Must be thoroughly skilled in the operation of all shop-installed machine tools such as lathes, planers, and drill presses.
• Must be willing and able to work extra or irregular hours.
• Must possess a high degree of skill and working knowledge of general maintenance activities and procedures including, ultrasonic, greasing, oil changes, and vibration monitoring.

Employer’s Statement

NRG Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer.