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Job Summary:

The Lead Mechanic provides knowledgeable mechanical maintenance support to maintain and repair electric and steam producing mechanical equipment, and their associated auxiliary components.  Performs supervisory duties during absence of the Maintenance Supervisor.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Recognizes safety hazards and follows safety guidelines for personal protection, protection of fellow workers and the protection of the public.
• Knowledgeable of environmental rules and regulations, and effectively apply them to all work situations.
• Demonstrates leadership capabilities and acts as a positive role model, accepts responsibility for crew activities.
• Assists in providing skill enhancement training to personnel in program and training journeymen mechanics.
• Completes written and electronic records (i.e. work orders, calibration sheets, time cards, material requests) required to document the work in progress and as it is completed.
• Knowledge of plant operations, equipment and skill area to prioritize and schedule tasks.
• Pays attention to detail and demonstrates good organizational skills in daily decision-making.
• Employee must arrange own transportation to work location and may be reassigned to another location at the Company’s discretion.

Working Conditions:

• Normal office environment and/or out of doors work environment, this could include working at heights, high/low ambient temperatures, and high humidity areas.
• Overtime as required
• Mentally stressful environments: must be able to react to crises where immediate action is required to correct or curtail potentially damaging or hazardous situations.
• Must be prepared to work irregular or rotating shifts and respond to emergency callout 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

Minimum Requirements:

• High School diploma or GED

• Ten (10) years’ experience (including apprenticeship) of industrial mechanical maintenance experience in the repair, inspection, and/or maintenance of related power plant or machine shop equipment including inspection and preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, fabricating and diagnostics.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license
• Must be able to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as required including but not limited to steel-toed boots, respirators, goggles, and safety glasses etc.
• Must be able to discern and respond to verbal and auditory signals.
• Must be able to discern assorted colors

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced mechanical aptitude.
• Ability to demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and listening ability to communicate effectively with management, co-workers, clients, and vendors.
• Ability to use a personal computer and associated software.
• Ability to install, maintain, test, inspect, troubleshoot and repair pumps and valves, bearings and shaft seals, sleeves, seats, and other miscellaneous parts used in generating station equipment.
• Ability to perform preventive and corrective maintenance procedures on mechanical equipment including PdM activities.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to use hand tools (i.e. wrenches, screwdrivers, sledge hammers, etc.)

• Ability to order proper materials for job completion.
• Knowledge of handling and disposal of waste material generated by maintenance activities.

• Ability to perform work using measuring devices such as micrometers, dial indicators, etc.
• Ability to operate Company vehicles and equipment (i.e. plant truck, forklift, mobile crane, etc.) and maintain operating licenses and certifications.
• Ability to use basic mathematics to calculate measurements and computations needed for repair and maintenance of power plant equipment.

• Ability to follow, interpret and act on written and verbal job instructions and reports, technical manuals and data.

• Ability to operate machine shop equipment (i.e. drill presses, lathes and boring mills).
• Ability to use oxygen and acetylene torches.

• Ability to perform routine and emergency repairs of plant equipment.

• Ability to perform basic machining operations.

• Ability to set up rigging for installing/removing equipment.

• Ability to perform plumbing and pipe fitting tasks.
• Ability to clean work area routinely.
• Ability to certify as a pressure welder.

• Ability as a certified welder to make welds on vessels, valves, turbines, boilers, piping, etc.
• Ability to use gas and/or arc welding equipment.
• Ability to remove and replace insulating materials with proper training.

Physical Requirements:

• Power Plant Environment-Work both inside and outside in all temperatures and climate conditions in accordance with Heat Stress procedures. Around large rotating equipment, energized electrical equipment in high noise areas, and/or in confined places, on elevations in excess of 250 feet, or from platforms at heights of 5 feet or greater. Climb stairways, ladders, and work from aerial devices.
• Daily work expectation requires ability to perform tasks by walking, standing, sitting, kneeling, crouching, squatting, twisting, pushing, pulling, shoveling, climbing, and working with hand tools (up to 25 pounds) in position above and below head, and extended from body to complete repairs.
• Lift, carry, position and use tools and/or equipment (weighing up to 50 lbs.) in awkward positions, swing various weights of sledge hammers, stoop and bend to reach valves, pull on chain-falls or come-a-longs.
• Ability to twist the body and neck while driving company vehicles or operating company equipment.
• Performance of duties may cause frequent jarring of the body.
• Work with and around hazardous and non-hazardous materials (reference the waste management guidance manual).

Salary offered will be commensurate with the successful candidate’s education and/or experience and consistent with the job location’s market pay rate.

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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