Plant Engineer
Job Overview
Our client is a leading provider of sustainable environmental and energy solutions, helping industrial and commercial customers achieve ambitious sustainability goals through innovative resource recovery and waste management technologies.
The Plant Engineer plays a critical role in supporting power generation operations, optimizing plant performance, improving equipment reliability, and ensuring regulatory compliance within a complex industrial environment. This individual serves as a key technical resource, partnering closely with operations and maintenance teams to maximize efficiency, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and support overall plant performance.
Working within a waste-to-energy and power generation environment, the Plant Engineer will gain exposure to boilers, turbines, combustion systems, process controls, capital projects, reliability programs, environmental compliance, and operational excellence initiatives. This position offers significant opportunities for professional growth while directly contributing to sustainability efforts and long-term facility success.
Job Responsibilities
- Monitor the daily performance of plant systems, including boilers, turbines, and supporting process equipment.
- Manage natural gas consumption, energy market bidding activities, and utility coordination efforts.
- Verify operational data and ensure the accuracy of performance reporting systems.
- Identify and implement opportunities to improve plant efficiency, reliability, and cost performance.
- Support predictive and preventive maintenance programs to maximize equipment availability.
- Conduct root cause analyses and implement corrective actions to improve equipment reliability.
- Support Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), including troubleshooting, maintenance, and upgrades.
- Lead or assist with capital projects involving facility improvements, equipment upgrades, and major repairs.
- Ensure compliance with operational, regulatory, and documentation requirements.
- Maintain adherence to environmental regulations, technical standards, and safety programs.
- Coordinate environmental testing and compliance activities.
- Support boiler reliability initiatives alongside engineering and maintenance teams.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues and develop practical, cost-effective solutions.
- Analyze operational trends and prepare technical reports with actionable recommendations.
- Maintain engineering documentation, change management records, and operating procedures.
- Promote Lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Train and mentor operations and maintenance personnel on best practices and technical procedures.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline; equivalent technical qualifications may also be considered.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license, Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, or MBA preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in an industrial manufacturing, power generation, energy, chemical processing, or similar heavy industrial environment.
- Strong hands-on experience with equipment design, operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and commissioning.
- Experience with boilers, steam systems, turbines, combustion equipment, and balance-of-plant systems.
- Knowledge of reliability engineering, preventive maintenance programs, and root cause failure analysis methodologies.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel for data analysis and reporting.
- Experience with AutoCAD, Distributed Control Systems (DCS), SCADA, and industrial control systems.
- Understanding of environmental compliance requirements and process improvement initiatives.
- Experience supporting capital projects and plant modernization efforts.
- Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced industrial environment.
- Exposure to Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methodologies is preferred.
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