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Combustion Specialist III

Plant-N-Power Services, LLP

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Pasadena, TX
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Job Description

As posted by the hiring company

Job Overview:

Position Summary:

 

This position is responsible for but not limited to the preventive, predictive, corrective maintenance, and troubleshooting, including the combustion fuel / air ratio controls, refractory repair, and improvement projects associated with fired equipment.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain a culture of safety
  • Develop and maintain compliance associated with all laws including but not limited to Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental
  • Required to supervise contractors used during special circumstances such as shutdowns, projects, or maintenance 
  • Ability to perform installation, start up, repair and tune up work on combustion systems and fuel trains
  • Able to train other employee's on the operation of combustion systems and fuel trains
  • Must be able to read and work from schematics
  • Must have the ability and knowledge to trouble shoot systems with no schematic
  • Diagnose malfunctions of equipment to determine cause and appropriate corrective action
  • Will need to perform preventative maintenance tasks according to established protocols
  • Competency to conduct a complete combustion analysis, determine drafting, and make recommendations to optimize burner control systems
  • Maintain and update HMI and PLC programs for combustion and safety systems for fired equipment
  • Be proficient with portable combustion analyzers
  • Write tuning / startup reports from all field visits
  • Specify Replacement Parts
  • Able to work with client to get or get the correct people together for additional opportunities
  • Understanding of NFPA 70 / 85 / 86/ 87
  • Ability to spec, setup, and commission VFD’s
  • Verify basic thermodynamic principles to plant processes and fired equipment
  • Ability to read and understand fan curves and capability to diagnose fan issues
  • Understands flow characteristics of each type of flow control valve


Qualifications:

  • Nine (9) or more years of controls and instrumentation
  • Combustion systems and fault finding
  • Strong problem-solving ability
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Engineering or Technical Degree Preferred but Not Required

 

 

(Reasonable accommodations will be made for otherwise qualified individuals with a disability.)

 

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.