Senior SME – Turbines and Rotating Equipment

Senior SME – Turbines and Rotating Equipment

Requirements

• Completed Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Preference for Registered Professional Engineer PE in Arizona (or another state).
• 15+ years as a Mechanical Engineer with Power Generation experience.
• Comprehensive Mechanical Engineering experience with a background in steam and combustion turbines, rotating equipment and vibration analysis, maintenance, reliability, design, construction, and commissioning experience, project and contract management experience.
• Preference for turbine OEM experience.
• Strong communication skills (written; verbal).
• Familiarity with CMMS, electronic drawing management systems, and SharePoint.

Responsibilities

• Providing subject matter expertise for all model Steam and Combustion Turbines across the Capital Power fleet, including operations, routine and outage maintenance, equipment upgrades or optimization, monitoring service bulletins and component repair recommendations.
• Maintaining life cycle information for key rotating equipment, including the history of repairs, operating profile, upgrades and other technical information.
• Delivering detailed component repair work scope, RFQ’s for component repairs, including all upgrades, repair procedure improvements, and providing recommendations to Plant Management and Senior Leadership.
• Initiating on-site technical support for the outages, projects, equipment upgrades, component repairs either remotely, or at the plant, or the various vendor repair facilities.
• Developing and maintain short- and long-term maintenance outage schedules and work scopes for rotating equipment, utilizing OEM standard recommendations, industry best practices, current unit condition and resources as guidelines.
• Preparing, negotiate, and manage project specific contracts.
• Proactively providing recommendations to Plant Managers and Senior Leadership to address issues for unit performance and improve reliability of the asset.
• Leading due diligence reviews of rotating equipment assets during acquisition and major project processes.
• Reviewing the plant’s previous outage reports, operating, maintenance procedures and preventative maintenance work orders, and recommend process improvements as applicable.
• Developing and enhance predictive and preventative maintenance programs to ensure tasks are performed at the proper frequencies to reduce forced outages and decrease outage durations.
• Leading technical evaluations of LTSAs and provide recommendations to the Plant Manager and operations.
• Providing leadership, mentoring and guidance to co-op students, engineers-in-training (EITs), and internal engineers.
• Collaborating with other members of the engineering and operations leadership team, department and plant operations to meet business unit and corporate objectives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Preference for turbine OEM experience.