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Headquarters: Port Westward, Clatskanie, OR

Rate of Pay: Technician I wage $49.36/hr.

Technician II wage $62.19/hr.

Technician III wage $70.41/hr.

Shift: Day Shift (Mon-Thurs)

In this role you will be primarily responsible for all aspects of maintaining the continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) at the Port Westward Generating Plant. In addition, you will support electrical, instrumentation and controls maintenance efforts as needed to ensure reliable plant operation. This position will be filled as a Technician I unless a higher qualification level has already been achieved at Port Westward. Technician I is a training position intended to qualify an individual to perform the specific operating, maintenance and administrative functions required at the Port Westward Generating Plant. The successful applicant will join a multi-discipline dayshift maintenance team and work toward qualification as a technician II 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)

• 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 reciprocating engine repairs, 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

• Working around operating engines in a hot & loud environment

• Communicate effectively while working with operating crews on rotating shifts

• Utilize computers in many facets of the job

• Initiate and promote change and improvements 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

• 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

Salary Range:

$49.36 - $62.19

Starting pay is listed in the job posting above. Salary range determined by the current collective bargaining agreement and may include step increases based on time in the position. In addition, this position is eligible for a performance-based incentive bonus.

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September 23, 2024

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