Control Room Operator
Posted on: 12 Jul 2023
Osceola, AR
Job Description
As an NRG employee, we encourage you to think creatively and proactively about your career choices. Our work environment is dynamic and the career opportunities across our businesses offer variety and challenge. Providing career growth to our own employees is critical to our ongoing success--take charge of your career goals and empower your future!
Ensure all safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements are met while on watch.
Verify effective operation of the plant including Balance of Plant equipment as needed based on defined procedures.
Respond to abnormal conditions in accordance with established processes and Standard Operating Procedures.
Communicate effectively with plant operators, shift supervisors, and managers as required.
Communicate with dispatch and transmission operator when required.
Complete all required training and qualifications including Safety, Environmental, Regulatory, Plant Simulator, and BOP training.
Remain alert and ready to respond during routine and abnormal situations.
Available to work 12-hour rotating shifts including nights, weekends, and holidays. Some coverage will be required to fill scheduled and unscheduled time off.
Completion of extensive in-house training program to become Control Room Operator qualified.
Advanced computer skills are required, including DCS (Ovation) & MS Office Suite with the ability to collect and evaluate data.
Minimum Requirements
High School degree or equivalent education
Basic computer knowledge and three to seven years of operating and/or maintenance experience preferably as a power plant operator or Control Room Operator or equivalent experience is strongly preferred.
NRG Energy
Princeton, NJ
NRG Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy company in the United States. The company is involved in the producing, selling, and delivering electricity and related products and services to 3.1 million residential, industrial, and commercial consumers. It generates electricity using natural gas, coal, oil, solar, nuclear, wind, fossil fuel, and nuclear sources. The company also provides system power, distributed generation, solar and wind products, backup generation, storage and distributed solar, demand response, energy efficiency, advisory, and on-site energy solutions; and carbon management and specialty services.
In addition, it trades in electric power, natural gas, and related commodity and financial products, including forwards, futures, options, and swaps. Further, the company supplies fuels; provides transportation services; and directly sells energy, services, and products and services to retail customers under the NRG, Reliant, and other names. It develops, constructs, owns, and operates natural gas, coal, oil, solar, nuclear, wind, fossil fuel, and nuclear plants with generation capacity of 23,000 megawatts. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.
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IndustryEnergy/Utilities
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No. of Employees4,862
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