To manage and supervise safely and effectively overhauls, mechanical maintenance repairs, and performance design changes for AEPCO steam and gas turbines, major rotating equipment and other equipment as assigned.  Provide general mechanical engineering support for plant operations, maintenance and planning staff.  Function as project engineer for plant betterment and capital projects as assigned. This position is located at our Apache Generating Station in Cochise, AZ.

• Manage, recommend and supervise corrections to all turbine and rotating equipment problems.
• Provide mechanical and engineering expertise for design changes, which improve heat rate and reduce operating and maintenance costs by understanding how to improve turbine performance and what causes degradation.
• Manage overhauls and mechanical maintenance for all AEPCO steam and gas turbines and major rotating equipment.
• Develop cost/benefit analysis.
• Solicit and evaluate proposals.
• Provide contract and construction management.
• Provide technical design and review services.
• Provide misc. equipment and system engineering, troubleshooting and documentation services.
• Provide engineering support to other staff engineers and other cooperative members as needed.
• Promote and maintain a team environment.

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 4 plus years of experience in mechanical and power station engineering, turbine maintenance, overhaul supervision, and turbine inspection.
• Proficient in budgeting, writing work scopes and repair procedures, analyzing and evaluating turbine and rotating mechanical performance and problems, and demonstrate ability to apply expertise to the safe and effective management and direction of turbine overhauls and repairs.
• Effective project management skills.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Effectively lead teams and productive participant skills.
• Effective office computer skills.
• Maintain working knowledge of applicable regulatory codes standards, and laws.
• Provide mentoring to less experienced engineers.
• Obtain expertise in turbine performance and operation.
• Any equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience can be substituted for requirements listed above.

About Arizona G&T Cooperatives

We are Member-owned, not-for-profit electric generation and transmission (G&T) cooperatives. Working together, our employees fulfill the joint mission of providing reliable, affordable power to electric coops across the Southwest. Arizona G&T Cooperatives provide power to more than 160,000 electric meters and 400,000 people in Arizona, California and New Mexico through six Class A Member distribution cooperatives. One of 63 G&T electric coops in the nation, we own and operate Apache Generating Station near Cochise, east of Benson. The plant has a combined gross generating capacity of 605 megawatts. We also purchase power to meet member energy needs during peak summer energy use. Our transmission system operates and maintains more than 622 miles of electric power transmission line and 27 substations reaching out from our Apache Generating Station, across Arizona to the northwestern corner of the state. We also operate more than 30 telecommunications towers used for phone and data relay services by our member cooperatives and customers.

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