Power Plant Operator
Primary Recruiting Services
- Hazleton, PA
- $27.00-32.50 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Maintains shift operating logs and records and performs routine chemical testing.
- Performs electrical and mechanical inspections, trouble-shooting, repair and maintenance tasks.
- Reads and records instruments/transmitters/gauges and meters.
- Assists in developing standard procedures for operations and maintenance.
- Implements safe working habits, identifies hazards and takes corrective actions, as approved by the Shift Supervisor, Control Room Operator, or other plant management.
- Becomes system expert on assigned plant systems.
- Studies to become qualified as a Control Room Operator and/or Maintenance Technician.
- May also qualify (become qualified) to work as an Assistant Plant Operator (loading ash, cleaning ash handling equipment, driving a wheeled loader and bulldozer, and operating plant's fuel and limestone handling and preparation equipment) as O&M Technicians must sometimes fill-in for Assistant Plant Operators.
- Work schedule is rotating shifts, and successful candidate must be available for emergency call-ins, and for temporary assignments to assist mechanics in the maintenance department.