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Talen Energy · 1 day ago

Fossil Plant Engineering (level commensurate with experience)

Talen Energy is seeking an Engineer for their Montour Steam Electric Station located near Washingtonville, Pennsylvania. This position is responsible for performing engineering work related to the operation and maintenance of power plant facilities, including planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance activities.

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Responsibilities

Act as key engineering interface for day-to-day plant maintenance and operations activities
Support the planning and implementation of maintenance outages
Focus on maintaining or improving equipment condition and performance, being cognizant of available techniques and practices. Identify and assist in resolution of emergent equipment issues
Coordinate with vendors as applicable, for related products and services
Prepare and maintain necessary technical documentation and operating and performance history records
Assist the maintenance and operations functions with troubleshooting activities, and with startup and shutdown tasks
Be available to provide engineering support as needed for a 24x7 operation (be available for overtime and callouts)
Assist in the work on smaller engineering projects or well-defined areas of larger projects
Use existing procedures to investigate, evaluate and assist in producing technically correct and cost-effective designs or recommendations that solve ongoing problems
Build relationships that will facilitate knowledge transfer, cross functional knowledge of related work groups, and ability to present work products effectively
Gather and correlate basic engineering data using well defined engineering procedures, which may include routine and diagnostic testing of components and systems, and engineering studies
Assist in a variety of topics including developing innovative procedures, improved design recommendations or new or better equipment purchase recommendations

Qualification

Power plant engineeringEngineering degreeLarge rotating equipmentMaintenance planningMulti-tasking

Required

Bachelor's degree in engineering, engineering technology, or other related science discipline from a college or university accredited by ABET, or recognized by ABET as substantially equivalent
Minimum 2 years related engineering experience for Support Engineer
Minimum 5 years' related engineering experience for Senior Engineer
Minimum 10 years' experience, with recognized expertise in power plant engineering for Principal Engineer

Preferred

A working knowledge of power plant is preferred. Must be able to work independently with minimal oversight
Ability to multi-task and deal with ever changing priorities
Experience working with large rotating equipment (turbines, generators, fans, pumps)

Company

Talen Energy

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Talen Energy operates as an energy and power generation and marketing company.

H1B Sponsorship

Talen Energy has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2021 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$6.74B
2025-10-06Post Ipo Debt· $4.29B
2025-01-09Post Ipo Equity
2024-12-10Post Ipo Debt· $850M

Leadership Team

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Mark McFarland
President and Chief Executive Officer
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Cole Muller
Chief Financial Officer
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