JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE:

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serves as the lead on days and provides work direction to the shifts.
• Ensures assigned work within the plant results in safe and reliable operation.
• Facilitates and coordinates Shift Safety meetings / Job Briefings for all personnel on the same shift.
• Promotes and ensures a safe work environment, including use of Human Performance tools.
• Mentors and provides training to develop other employees in the operations training progression plan.
• Shared responsibility for Contractor Safety on days or shift and conducts Contractor Safety Orientations as needed.
• Fills in for Team Leaders in their absence.
• Maintains regulatory compliance and is proactive in avoiding reportable violations and if an event occurs, coordinating with all agencies as appropriate.
• Performs site safety/environmental audits and acts to mitigate hazards.
• Makes real time decisions and provides work direction regarding the operation of the equipment in a safe, efficient and reliable manner.
• Performs startup and shutdown functions of RICE, generator and associated equipment as required per instructions from the SPO- Energy Management Organization.
• When un-planned absences occur after hours, ensures adequate shift coverage through contact of other qualified personnel.
• Upon progression to this level, the employee should have completed all the board operator qualifications and is working as the designated lead control board operator.
• Operational duties include, but are not limited to operating the control board, periodically making operational rounds, performing PM/PDM activities, managing boiler water chemistry, and CEMS monitoring and calibrations.
• Lead the effort to develop and review operating procedures and rounds.
• Applies understanding and knowledge of plant systems, burner controls (where applicable) turbine controls, data acquisition, process controls, regulating devices, personal computers, troubleshooting, etc.
• Applies skills to perform inspections, calibrations, installations, repairs, diagnostics, testing and troubleshooting of complex instrumentation equipment and regulating devices in a fossil fuel fired power generation facility, alone and as part of a team.
• May perform mechanical work involved in inspection, repair and installation of instrumentation and electrical equipment, and PM of mechanical systems.