Engineer III
Puget Sound Energy
Senior Mechanical Engineer, Power Plant
Puget Sound Energy
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Washington
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💰 $104,500 - $174,100 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Provide professional engineering services and technical leadership to PSE power plant management and engineering staff.
- Support planning, construction, operation, maintenance, and analysis of PSE power plants.
- Manage fleet-wide maintenance programs and schedule/coordinate major segments of complex projects to meet cost and time objectives.
- Review design and documentation to ensure compliance with design criteria and standards.
- Prepare complex engineering plans, designs, specifications, standards, evaluations and studies using specialized analytical skills.
- Analyze equipment failures, perform root cause analyses, and provide technical recommendations to improve equipment reliability.
- Provide technical input to equipment repair strategies, manage repair work on site, oversee QA/QC, and review repair reports.
- Write scope of work (SOW) and request for proposal (RFP) documents for large scale maintenance activities.
- Provide design oversight and management for large scale, interdisciplinary projects.
- Ensure compliance with codes, standards, and design, operation, and maintenance requirements.
- Document and share work to strengthen engineering workforce skills.
- Provide technical leadership and coordinate/review work of engineers, field technicians, contractors and consultants.
- Plan and schedule engineering resources and develop/execute department strategy to support business objectives.
- Support emergency response operations including immediate and extended restoration efforts.
- Communicate solutions in verbal and written forms, including public forums.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree or PE license in electrical, mechanical, civil or other appropriate engineering field.
- Substantial experience in planning, design, specification preparation, technical field work, project cost estimating and scheduling (typically achieved after 8 or more years practice as a degreed engineer).
- Demonstrated organization, documentation, prioritization, and project management skills.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Willingness to travel to PSE power plants more than 50% of the time.
- Job is safety sensitive and subject to pre-employment drug screening including marijuana.
- Experience working within the utility industry or a process plant environment (desired).
- Extensive field work at power plants or other heavy industrial sites (desired).
- Possession of a Professional Engineering License (desired).
- Experience supporting operations and maintenance activities on site at thermal, wind, and/or hydro power plants (desired).
- Knowledge of hydro turbines, steam turbines, gas turbines, heat recovery steam generators, and/or balance of plant equipment (desired).
- Knowledge of power piping, welding, and non-destructive examination techniques (desired).
- Knowledge of ASME B31 and Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (desired).
- Experience troubleshooting equipment and complex systems in a process plant environment (desired).
- Knowledge of predictive maintenance techniques and technologies (desired).
- Experience in maintenance planning practices including reliability centered maintenance (RCM), risk-based inspection (RBI), and failure mode effect analysis (FMEA) (desired).
- Ability to read and interpret P&ID’s, piping isometrics, and general arrangement drawings (desired).
- Ability to communicate and collaborate with management, 3rd party contractors, other engineering disciplines, and plant operations and maintenance personnel.
- Knowledge of engineering economics and utility accounting practices (desired).
- Experience working on complex engineering projects (desired).
