Turbine and Auxiliaries Specialist / Philippines

Location: Cebu

Position Summary:
This position plays a key role in planning, designing, and implementing the asset management plans and policies relating to Steam Turbine Prime Movers and their auxiliary equipment and controls.
 
Duties and Responsibilities: 
 
Planning & Development

• Develops Steam Turbine Maintenance and Remaining Life Assessment (RLA) programs
• Ensures that reliability engineering/predictive maintenance plans are developed, implemented, and executed

 
Steam Turbine Program Management

• Ensures that steam turbines are being maintained in a timely and thorough manner
• Ensures that steam turbine protective devices are properly calibrated and checked on a timely basis
• Audits load rejection and synchronization events
• Tracks steam turbine operating hours adjusting the time between maintenance cycles based upon normal accepted standards allowed for abnormal operating conditions
• Ensures that proper safety precautions and procedures are followed while performing steam turbine maintenance activities including the proper use of grounds, non-sparking tools, and cooling circuit purge
• Prepares reports and presentations involving steam turbines for distribution to internal and external customers, including insurance brokers and lender’s engineers
• Supports the BUs as requested for budgeting, planning, and scheduling steam turbine related maintenance activities and participates in all steam turbine related asset incident investigations, root cause failure analysis (RCA), and corrective action options analysis
• As the subject matter expert for steam turbines, ensures that the third party technical specs for purchase orders and third party technical reports are thorough; develops relevant O&M technical guidelines
• Supports site Maintenance and Engineering teams in Outage scope development, planning and tools and is present as required during
• Outages to provide support and advice on technical issues.

 
Reports Management

• Reviews weekly reports looking for anomalies and corroborating results
• Consolidates monthly reports into a summary with any events to note highlighted
• Conducts System reviews for each site on a quarterly basis highlighting non-compliances to AP Guidelines and recommendations to improve performance and align to best practices in this System

 
Others

• Assures internal/external stakeholder development through periodic plant visits to power generation facilities, meetings, site visits to OEM and technical service providers, and conference participation, as required

 
Competencies:

• Knowledge of steam turbine systems
• Familiarity on steam turbine construction and rebuild techniques
• Ability to interpret technical drawings and manuals
• Communication skills (Oral and Written)
• Critical thinking skills
• Problem solving skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Experience leading a team to a common goal

 
Qualification:
 
Professional:

• At least 10 years’ experience in steam turbine maintenance in power generation industry or petrochemical/industrial gas production/refining
• (Experience requirement may be reduced for

individuals with an advanced technical or business degree, or registration as a professional engineer)

• At least 2 years’ experience working for steam turbine original equipment manufacturer (OEM) or industrial service provider (ISP)
• Experience in preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance practices
• Experience in performance enhancement and optimization of operating assets or processes
• Experience in analysis of plant/facility financial performance requirements against operations, maintenance, and repair costs
• Experience in reliability engineering, statistical analyses of failure modes, and root cause failure analyses (preferred but not required)
• Exposure to plant information systems and performance monitoring software applications

 
Leadership:

• Experience leading technical team members in

the execution of Design and/or Service Work Completion to successfully complete time-bound project and financial budgets within schedule
 
Project: At least 2 years’ experience in project management
 
Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from an accredited institution