Power Plant Mechanic

Company: Primary Recruiting Services
Location: Bakersfield
Posted on: April 20, 2024

Job Description:

Title: Power Plant Mechanic

Location: Panama, CA

Pay: $40-$45/Hour - OT Pay - 15% Bonus - Relocation Assistance - 4 Weeks of PTO

Schedule: Monday - Friday 7am-3:30pm

Why Work Here?

Contribute your power plant maintenance experience to a multi-site portfolio located in temperate Panama, CA with some of the best climate and lowest cost of living in the state. This role offers a company vehicle to travel to surrounding plants performing preventative and corrective maintenance. Candidates with turbine, boiler, piping, tubing, machining, gearbox, conveyor, and other industrial maintenance experience are an ideal fit for the role. Our client tries to keep every job possible in-house and the role is available due to an upcoming retirement giving you an opportunity to learn from senior Mechanics onsite.

Job Description:

• Performs mechanical and/ or electrical maintenance on plant equipment to support optimum efficiency, availability, and plant appearance.
• Works callouts as required to maintain plant availability.
• Performs maintenance activities around the repair, replacement, installation, and removal of mechanical and/or electrical equipment and associated structures.
• Responsibilities include inspecting and verifying maintenance clearances prior to work, troubleshooting, disassembling, reassembling, and replacing equipment and associated parts, monitoring plant equipment and analyzing operating data.
• While the focus of work is primarily on repair and maintenance, may also perform some preventative maintenance activities including troubleshooting and assisting with the development of preventative maintenance procedures and recommended spares list/inventory as required.
• Assists with planning and spare parts inventory including following procedures around requisitioning of parts and supplies. Prepares all reports as directed by management and plant procedures.
• Ensures compliance with all local, State and Federal regulations and plant procedures.
• Maintains safe work environment and contributes to operating procedures to ensure consistent and safe operations
• Performs a variety of complex technical service/support duties requiring specialized knowledge.
• Regularly makes decisions on non-routine or escalated technical issues.
• Independently prioritizes and executes responsibilities effectively for a single trade, group of related tasks or functional area.
• Checks own work and possibly the work of others; work results are of the highest quality standards and advanced technical competency.
• High School Diploma, degree from technical/vocational school or equivalent.
• 2+ years directly related experience including understanding of health and safety regulations, and previous experience working with and around hazardous energy, chemicals and waste materials including knowledge of safe handling, storage, and transport.
• Requires basic knowledge of physics and applied mathematics to facilitate understanding of cogeneration power plant systems such as turbines, generators, pumps, motors, shaft-to-shaft alignment, seal times, and valves.
• Skills may be in the areas of mechanical, instrumentation and control and/or electrical maintenance. Ideally have welding skills and/or operation of machine tools such as lathes, mills, etc.

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