Senior Plant Maintenance Engineer -Carty, Boardman, OR

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Senior Plant Maintenance Engineer

Carty Generating Station

Boardman, Oregon

Commissioned in 2016, the natural gas-fired combined-cycle power plant is a key resource that helps PGE to serve existing customer energy needs, maintain system reliability and meet growing demand for electricity in the decades ahead. The plant has a baseload capacity of 440 MW and can produce enough electricity to serve about 300,000 residential customers.

Boardman is a rapidly growing community in northeastern Oregon along the banks of the beautiful Columbia River. Primarily an agricultural community, Boardman is a major hub for transportation of manufactured goods. Our city is located along Interstate 84 at exits 164 and 165.

In this role, you’ll provide functional and economical engineering solutions to operations and maintenance problems through the improvement and maintenance of plant safety, reliability, efficiency, and regulatory compliance in a responsible and progressive manner. You’ll maintain and improve the operation, reliability, safety, and regulatory compliance of the company’s generating resources. Plant maintenance engineering interacts with multiple engineering disciplines, is typically staffed by an electrical or mechanical engineer.
 

Key Job Information: Senior Plant Maintenance Engineer 6344 Grade 7
 

Career Level: P3 Career Professional Individuals at this level require in-depth knowledge and experience. They use best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services. They solve complex problems; taking a new perspective using existing solutions. They work independently, receiving minimal guidance. They also act as a resource for colleagues with less experience.

Key Responsibilities:

Engineering Standards:

Maintains currency in state-of-the-art engineering practices and provides guidance and direction on engineering processes and standards to colleagues when requested. Supports plant improvements with extended knowledge of maintenance engineering principles and local codes and standards. Applies knowledge to investigate, identify and clearly define plant problems and applies knowledge of the plant and plant control systems and processes to determine and deliver engineering improvements on proposed equipment and systems Provides technical guidance and support to other engineers and contractors.

Engineering Production:

Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for larger or multiple projects; coordinates multiple discipline activity. Develops and provides quality assurance reviews of maintenance engineering solutions that meet technical requirements, all applicable codes, regulatory requirements and follow sound engineering practice. Maintains and reviews plant design basis documents.

Project Coordination:

Actively coordinates with other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects, including representing the team to interdepartmental and external (regulatory) stakeholders. Plans, develops, and coordinates projects with complex design, construction, operation, maintenance or testing elements in support of plant maintenance engineering projects. Provides accurate capital budget and job estimates.

Knowledge Sharing:

Serves as a technical specialist and provides consultation/guidance to project teams in a particular practice area; actively fosters knowledge management and provides mentoring; implements resource management strategy. Develops and delivers training of other engineers and crews on operations and maintenance practices and requirements. Provides and coordinates updates on critical safety and reliability topics to operations personnel. Participates in industry-related events for the purposes of benchmarking and learning about best practices.
 

Education/Experience/Certifications:

Education: Requires a bachelor’s degree in any applicable engineering discipline from an ABET accredited engineering program or program accredited by an equivalent agency

Experience: Five or more years in engineering is preferred.

Certifications, Licenses and Training: Professional Engineering (PE) license strongly preferred; may be required based upon role.
 

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

Functional Competencies:

• Advanced knowledge of engineering and economic principles and concepts.
• Advanced knowledge of other engineering disciplines and advanced ability to interpret engineering deliverable content as assigned.
• Advanced understanding and application of engineering processes and procedures; working knowledge of other related departments and functions.
• Advanced industry knowledge and technology trends.
• Advanced knowledge of company QA/QC process and procedures.
• Advanced knowledge of construction feasibility.
• Intermediate knowledge of procurement and contract administration.
• Advanced knowledge of process, procedures for project controls and estimates.
• Intermediate knowledge of plant mechanical, electrical and control systems.
• Advanced ability to review, evaluate and analyze technical information, policies, and reports.

General Competencies:

• Advanced accuracy skills.
• Intermediate knowledge of the utility industry.
• Advanced organization and prioritization skills.
• Advanced decision-making skills.
• Intermediate written and oral communication skills.
• Advanced individual and group presentation skills.
   

Physical and Cognitive Demands:

Cognitive Level Substantial: Consistent use of logic or scientific thinking to define problems, collect information, establish facts and draw valid conclusions (for example, engineer, HR director, plant manager, etc.).

Cognitive:

• Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines, and time-sensitive tasks
• Ability to follow accuracy standards
• Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks
• Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment
• Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress
• Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change
• Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback
• Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement
• Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks
• Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization
• Demonstrates sound memory
• Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks
   

Schedule/Attendance:

• Ability to adhere to pre-established schedule, including start/stop time and break/lunch schedule
• Ability to work long hours
• Ability to work a variable schedule
• Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather
• Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance
• Ability to work shift schedule
• Ability to work on-call schedule

Physical Capabilities:

• This position requires a valid driver’s license and a history of safe driving practices.

• Daily driving/traveling/commuting
• Occasional overnight travel/commuting
• Computer use (use computer regularly for entire work shift)
• Lifting/pushing/pulling/carrying: Up to 10 lbs.
• Walking long distances or on unstable, rough, rocky, or uneven surfaces

Environment - Indoor/Outdoor: Office, Plant, Field

Compensation Range:

Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity. While we anticipate the selected candidate for this position will fall towards the middle or entry point of the compensation range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis.

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