Calpine Corporation is America's largest generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources with operations in competitive power markets. Its fleet of 76 power plants in operation and one under construction represents nearly 26,000 megawatts of generation capacity. Through wholesale power operations and its retail businesses, Calpine serves customers in 22 states, Canada and Mexico. Its clean, efficient, modern and flexible fleet uses advanced technologies to generate power in a low-carbon and environmentally responsible manner.
The company was established on the premise that a strong commitment to the environment is inextricably linked to excellence in power generation and corporate responsibility. Since its founding in 1984, Calpine has led the power industry in its unwavering commitment to environmental stewardship. In addition, its renewable geothermal plants use steam generated deep below the earth's surface to produce clean, renewable electricity.
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Maintains and repairs electrical equipment and instrumentation. Monitors, maintains, and repairs plant Distributed Control System (DCS). Monitors, maintain, and repairs gas turbine, steam turbine control systems, generators, transformers, and switchgear. Maintain, calibrate, and repair plant electrical, instrumentation, and control systems. Perform routine trouble shooting activities. Use Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to effectively accomplish required maintenance in and efficient and organized manner. Optimize plant preventative maintenance program to meet OEM recommendations, regulatory requirements, and corporate maintenance philosophy. Responsible for maintaining logs, manuals, records, blueprints, and operating procedures in a neat and professional manner. Provide written reports on control system conditions when required. Incorporates safe behavior into all activities and consistently complies with all established safety and health policies and procedures, helps to identify and eliminate or actively manage risks in all work activities.
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This ICE Technician II position will report to the Technical Services team that will be working with, VMWare ESXi, Cisco Catalyst switches, HPE ProLiant servers and Microsoft server OSes. designs, installs, maintains, and troubleshoots servers and networking switches in highly redundant installations as required to support the 24/7 operation of the Distributed Control System. Will use the FactoryTalk View Studio to update and maintain the Human Machine Interface for plant operations and will troubleshoot Human Machine Interface and plant/steam field control systems and perform basic control system task. Supports staff as needed during off hours in the event of upset or breakdown, as well as during new project commissioning and startup. Oversees technical activities on one or multiple projects.
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OUR MISSION: Our mission is to provide clean, reliable and efficient energy and energy-related products to our customers while earning meaningful returns for our shareholders. In pursuit of our mission, we are committed to best-in-class safety and...
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