Technician I (Welder, Electrical, or I&C preferred)

Location: Carty, Boardman, OR

Rate of pay: $53.43/hour

Shift: Rotating

Technician I is a training position intended to qualify an individual to perform the specific operating, maintenance and administrative functions required at the Carty Plant. The successful applicant will join a multi-discipline rotating shift team and work toward qualification as a Technician II ($67.31/hour) within one year. The Technician I will assist with plant operations and maintenance tasks as qualification progresses.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities

• Train to become a technician II (primary initial responsibility) on rotating shifts
• Train to become a technician III (primary initial responsibility) on rotating shifts within 3 years of hire date.
• Monitor, maintain, operate, and test plant equipment and tools, as qualified
• Perform predictive maintenance, as qualified
• Perform preventive maintenance, as qualified
• Perform calibrations as qualified
• Use installed and portable test equipment and technical manuals to troubleshoot equipment and system problems, as trained
• Perform water chemistry analysis, as qualified
• Perform administrative duties such as data collection, report writing, procedure writing, and utilization of relevant computer programs
• Order and receive plant materials
• Have primary responsibility for plant systems, as assigned
• Conduct training sessions, as assigned
• Continuously increase own knowledge level by independent study
• Participate in self-directed work teams
• Provide and receive feedback on team and individual performance
• Practice PGE Core Practices: Customer Focus, Ensures Accountability, Collaborates, Nimble Learning, Instills Trust, Values Differences

Minor Job Responsibilities

• Perform other plant duties, as assigned
• Operate company vehicles, as assigned

Communications

• Plant personnel: Use oral and written communication to ensure productivity and safe work performance
• Internal PGE departments (PSES, Health and Safety, Power Operations, other plants, etc.): Solicit and provide information for problem solving, etc.
• Vendors: Contact vendors to purchase, track and receive material
• Regulators, Auditors, Inspectors: Answer questions and demonstrate procedures and methods

Challenges

• Communicate effectively while working rotating shifts
• Utilize computers in many facets of the job
• Initiate and promote change and improvement on a routine basis
• Develop excellence in diverse areas of responsibility
• Know, understand and follow all safety procedures at the plant
• Learn to give and receive feedback that will promote continual improvement

Knowledge/Skills/Experience Required

• Three years previous experience working in a power plant performing operations, electrical, instrumentation/control, and mechanical maintenance functions, or five years previous experience in operating, electrical, instrumentation/control, or mechanical maintenance with journeyman level experience or equivalent training in other areas.
• Demonstrated ability to perform non-routine and complex maintenance in most of the following areas:
  • Mechanical: Valves, Pumps, Compressors, Rigging, Fittings, Hydraulics, Crane Ops, Large Engines, Fans, Piping, Tubing.
  • Electrical: Batteries, Breakers, Switchgear, Transformers, Motors, VFDs, Buses, Power Supplies
  • I&C:  DCS, PLCs, Sensors, Transmitters, Controllers, Regulators, Pneumatics, Control Valves, Programming, Tubing
  • Operations: ST Plant Ops, GT Plant Ops, Aux Boiler Ops, Logics, Schematics, P&IDs, Clearances, Confined Space
• Demonstrated ability to work successfully both independently and as a team member

• Demonstrated ability to participate in individual and group goal setting and achievement
• Demonstrated ability to initiate and adapt to change
• Demonstrated ability to practice teamwork and PGE Guiding Behaviors
• Valid driver's license and demonstrated good driving habits
• Certified welder, licensed electrician, or qualified I/C candidates preferred.
• Must pass the POSS-MASS Aptitude Test

Physical/Mental Abilities and Processes

• Decision making - intermediate
• Reasoning in problem solving - intermediate
• Reading and comprehension - intermediate
• Written communications - intermediate
• Must climb up to 110 ft of stairs routinely
• Must climb up to a 220 ft ladder occasionally
• Must lift and carry up to 100 lbs with assistance and 25 lbs without assistance
• Continual walking throughout the plant project on a routine basis
• Participate in Pipeline Safety mandated random drug and alcohol testing, as required