Senior Boiler Engineer Job In Colorado Springs Colorado

Be part of our promise to the future

Nestled at the base of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado Springs is the perfect blend of mountain and city living. As one of the nation’s greatest vacation meccas, Colorado boasts its breath-taking scenery, abundant recreation activities, and diverse populations.

With the recent spotlight on energy in our country, energy careers are on the fast track. At Colorado Springs Utilities, we continue to innovate by using state-of-the-art technology. Our employees enjoy the satisfaction of fulfilling work that impacts our citizen owners and community daily. Martin Drake Power Plant at Colorado Springs Utilities is embarking on new and innovation ways to generate clean and cost effective energy in the fossil fuel power plant environment.  We are looking for your engineering knowledge and enthusiasm to support this effort.

Significant duties include:

• Providing professional engineering services for large electric generating fossil fuel boilers and associated equipment to include pulverizers and fans
• Performing boiler inspections
• Managing complex engineering projects and outage contracts
• Preparing and reviewing contracts and specifications
• Providing asset management and engineering assessment, and identifying areas of improvement

• Preparing information and reports 
• Complying with the safety and health program in support of an incident and injury free workplace

Therefore Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities we seek include:

Knowledge of:

• Operation, maintenance and repair outage planning of fossil fuel boilers
• Operation and maintenance of power plant equipment, including pulverizers, fans, pumps, burners, piping systems and similar mechanical equipment
• Performance testing and equipment evaluation
• Welding, weld procedures, welding inspection and code requirements for fossil fuel boilers
• Boiler combustion, including boiler and pulverizer operation, boiler tuning and boiler testing
• Industry standards for environmental regulations
• Equipment inspection and engineering assessment

Skilled in:

• Evaluating, monitoring, directing and managing outside contractors, consultants and vendors
• Engineering project management, including economic evaluation, schedule and time milestones
• Preparing scopes of work, contracts and specifications
• Providing structural engineering design
• Complex problem solving
• Complex engineering analysis
• Troubleshooting techniques
• Welding procedures and inspections 
• Determining areas of improvement or greater efficiency for reliability, performance and operations and maintenance processes
• Interpreting and applying engineering principles

Education: People in this occupation will have a completed bachelor's degree in engineering in a relevant discipline.   Registration as a Professional Engineer (PE) and/or Certified Weld Inspector (CWI) preferred.

Experience: Most people in this occupation would have seven or more years of professional level engineering experience.  Engineering experience in electric power generation preferred. Valid Colorado Driver’s License, or ability to obtain may be required.

What a career at Colorado Springs Utilities can offer you…

• As a community-owned enterprise for over 100 years, we offer the stability of providing a required service and commodity for our community
• We are a diverse team of professionals who take pride in delivering exceptional service to our community through new and innovative technologies
• We understand employees have competing priorities. That is why we have created an environment which embraces teamwork and flexibility.

Join a diverse team of high performers who take pride in delivering exceptional service to our community! For more information and to apply, visit www.csu.org

Tap into the power of your potential

Colorado Springs Utilities is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer