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Consumers Energy · 18 hours ago

Sr Equipment Technician

Ludington, MI

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

4+ years exp

Consumers Energy is Michigan’s largest energy provider, providing natural gas and/or electricity to millions of residents. The Senior Equipment Technician is responsible for overseeing the repair, maintenance, and requisitioning of substation and plant equipment, ensuring compliance with safety standards and regulations while troubleshooting complex systems and providing training to staff.

Utilities

No H1B

Responsibilities

Calibrate, maintain, repair and replace complex field devices for plant instrumentation and control and plant equipment

Develop plant system knowledge by working and receiving coaching from Instrumentation & Control Lead for continuous learning purposes

Requisitions and/or selects and assigns long lead time equipment and materials in Service Now and SAP pursuant to substation project scopes. Resolves complex associated questions and details where appropriate; seeking guidance from supervisor. Uses data and tools to select battery strings and chargers. Initiates RFP cycles, selects bidders, evaluates bid and selects successful bidders, and involved in performance decisions. Identifies stock vs non-stock related tasks

Effectively communicate with internal stakeholder departments (Planning, Substation I&C, Electric Field Lab, Construction, Operations & Maintenance, Field Technical Services, EERC, Closeout, Property Accounting, System Protection) to resolve equipment related details (e.g., switch sketches related to existing installations) along with complex control design changes, implantation, testing, and tuning of plant equipment

Leads improvements to enhance equipment performance and reliability. Develop cost reduction initiatives by effective utilization of materials and resources through the troubleshooting process

Drive technical support to Operations, Maintenance and Dam Safety departments. Including Dam Safety inspections and monitoring and Environmental Health & Safety (Storm Water certified, contamination sampling, drinking water certified, Underground Storage Tank certification, monitor gas and diesel containments and systems)

Track project milestones and deliverables in spreadsheets and/or databases. This includes requestioning tasks, approval drawings, drawing cycle comment consolidation/resolution, final documentation, test reports archival. Leads continuous improvement forums (e.g., Quality/missing parts/damaged equipment problem solving associated with stakeholder feedback). Monitors performance and provides analysis and recommendations

Maintain complex digital control system(s) though install of updates (patches), logic updates/changes, tuning, graphical upgrades, and reporting

Other duties as assigned or may be necessary

Qualification

Plant instrumentationElectronic equipment troubleshootingSAPControl system maintenanceCAD/PDF Markup systemsConstruction knowledgeFlexible multitaskingCommunication skillsSelf-motivatedTeamwork