I & C Technician Apprentice

NRG Energy
Any Location, TX
Category Engineering
Job Description
NRG is looking for an I & C Technician Apprentice to provide maintenance support to troubleshoot, calibrate, and maintain all instrumentation associated with the boiler, turbine, generator, and all auxiliary equipment for the plant. The successful candidate will learn environmental rules and regulations, install, calibrate, and test protective relays, computers, metering, monitoring, and control systems, and use test equipment and hand tools to troubleshoot and maintain devices and systems.

Requirements

  • Recognizes safety hazards and follows safety guidelines for personal protection, protection of fellow workers and the protection of the public
  • Learn environmental rules and regulations, and effectively apply them to all work situations
  • Install, calibrate, test, troubleshoot, and maintain protective relays, computers, metering, monitoring, and control systems on boilers, turbines, generators, and plant auxiliary equipment
  • Learn to read and interpret electric generating plants P&ID's and CWD's to locate, identify, troubleshoot, and repair plant systems, interlocks, etc.
  • Uses test equipment (oscilloscopes, multi-meters electronic bridges, loop calibrators) and hand tools (i.e. drills, screwdrivers) as necessary to troubleshoot and maintain devices and systems for the power plant
  • Learn proper, safe use of tools and maintenance procedures
  • Completes all written and electronic records ( i.e. work orders, calibration sheets, time cards, material requests) required to document the work in progress and as it is completed
  • Learn power plant layout and system operations
  • Continually updates knowledge of plant systems and instrumentation
  • Makes decisions about how best to repair equipment and what resources (tools, time equipment) will be needed
  • Employee must arrange own transportation to work location and may be reassigned to another location at the Company’s discretion
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