Plant McDonough anticipates the need to seek highly skilled multidiscipline candidates for a General Plant Operator position to operate & maintain our combined cycle and/or combustion turbine power plants in Atlanta, Ga. The duties of a General Plant Operator include operating, monitoring, troubleshooting, and repairing the plant’s electrical, instrumentation and mechanical power plant equipment related to the operation of a combined cycle and/or a combustion turbine power plant.
Requirements
- Ability to perform thorough and effective operator rounds, evaluate equipment conditions, heat rate losses, and any potential hazards.
- Must be able to learn how to independently operate a combined cycle and/or combustion turbine plant and communicate effectively with plant stakeholders.
- Define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to apply principles of logical thinking and deal with situations that are countered.
- Strong mechanical and electric aptitude and a demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and repair electrical and mechanical equipment are required.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills are required.
- Must be able to work with minimal supervision and acquire basic computer skills.
- Work with other departments for the successful execution of scheduled work and planned outages by supporting planning and scheduling activities.
- Maintain proper documentation for assigned system (inspection reports, outage reports, equipment specifications, etc.)
- Must be able to work in difficult environments including confined spaces, extreme hot and cold temperatures, indoors and outdoors, around loud noise and locations accessible only via vertical ladders or over uneven spaces, cat walks, climbing high elevations up to 100 feet or working on grated surfaces/platforms.
- Must perform duties wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) which may include safety glasses, hard hats, respirator, dust mask, steel toe shoes, gloves and hearing protection.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Annual incentive awards for eligible employees
- Health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being
