Senior commissioning technician

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Your role and responsibilities

In this role you will be responsible for Travel to various sites in the US (including off-shore facilities) and outside the US performing commissioning and service on motors and generators to include installations, system maintenance, troubleshooting or conduct training.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Complete installation wiring and/or provide technical direction to craft labor for installation of new motor and generators.
• Perform start-up and commissioning testing protocol in accordance with factory instructions and manuals.
• Work with engineering department to develop installation task lists and designs.
• Facilitate mobilization, demolition, and installation activities including equipment and tool shipping, scheduling, and supervision of craft labor on site.
• Assist with maintenance and testing of generator excitation systems, protective relays, and other auxiliary equipment.
• Write trip reports that describe, in detail, the system and device failure and actions taken. Review the system problem and solution with the Design Engineering group.
• Travel to customer sites to oversee installations of equipment, perform system startup or required maintenance, provide instructions for customer maintenance, or repair equipment.
• Provide first response troubleshooting via phone to customer’s emergency needs including weekends and holidays as needed.

Qualifications for the role:

• Associate degree and 5 years of work experience OR High school diploma and 12 years of work experience required
• Travel up to 80-90% required with little advance notice
• Knowledge and understanding of the protection and operation principles for synchronous machines connected to power grids as well as machines design and operation, mechanically, electrically and controls.
• Specific knowledge in installation engineering design, installation supervision, project control and execution, vibration and alignment skills and troubleshooting is a plus
• Understanding of and ability to implement electrical, connection drawings, interconnection drawings, and schematics.
• Ability to qualify for and hold various industry certifications related to Safety (i.e. MSHA, OSHA, THUET, TBOSIET) and background screening (i.e. TWIC, ISNetworld)

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