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| Category: | Other |
| Job Type: | Permanent |
| Salary: | Competitive |
| Country: | United States |
| State/Province: | Alabama |
| City: | Muscle Shls |
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JOB SUMMARY This position performs multi-discipline engineering to optimize performance of major plant equipment, apparatus, and facilities for the Combustion Turbine Plant. Conducts technical monitoring, analysis, evaluation, and investigation of plant electrical, mechanical, and chemical systems, process, and equipment. Initiates improvements, repairs, maintenance, modification, and retrofit activity to optimize achievement of plant / system business plan objectives. Conducts improvement studies using plant test and operating data and monitors control charts for optimizing plant performance. Utilizes a wide variety of analytical methods to solve problems and to predict future performance, using historical data and the results of process control system activities. Identifies deviations in plant equipment and system performance, determines root causes, and recommends the optimum solution for correcting the problem. Troubleshoots system problems not resolved by routine maintenance or surveillance activities. Determines whether identified problems exist in other systems or units at the plant and replicates solutions, including informing other sites which can benefit. Prepares and reviews specifications, cost benefit ratios, and estimates covering installation of new equipment or upgrading of present equipment. Furnishes engineering data and prepares job orders and work orders to cover capitalized expenditures or retirements. Leads the development of Outage Planning, and serves as a technical advisor during maintenance outages. Responsible for ensuring that changes to plant configuration are controlled and properly documented. ELIGIBILITY FACTORS A Bachelor of Science in engineering from an ABET accredited engineering program. An Engineering Technology degree does not meet the degree requirement for this position. Full competence as a System Engineer as demonstrated by several years progressive and developmental experience at the Engineer Level, as a System Engineer or in a comparable engineering position providing the required experience and knowledge of combustion turbine plant systems and of multiple engineering disciplines. Must have demonstrated proficiency in engineering as evidenced by completion of Engineering Graduate Progression Plan or equivalent post engineering graduate education and experience. License as a Professional Engineer is highly desirable. TVA is an Equal Opportunity employer and complies with all applicable laws and regulations regarding equal employment opportunities. TVA gives hiring preference to qualified U.S. citizens and other protected individuals (green card holders, asylees, etc.) for all job vacancies. Between qualified U.S. citizens and other protected individuals, TVA gives hiring preference to equally qualified born or naturalized U.S. citizens. | |
| Post Date: | 07/22/2011 |
| Application Deadline: | Aug 17, 2011 |