Substation Technician
A substation Technician performs predictive, preventative and corrective maintenance, and operation of equipment in distribution, transmission and generation station facilities.
The focus is on implementing the Association’s reliability centered maintenance program and on data collection analysis and trending involved in predictive maintenance.
A substation technician is a member of a skilled technical team, including other substation and generation technical personnel, individuals in this position will install, commission, maintain, and evaluate for maintenance all types of Substation equipment. In addition, these individuals will assist other technical personnel in the performance of their duties.
Report To:
A substation Technician will report directly to the Senior Substation Technician
Common duties include but not limited to
Qualifications:
• An S4
• B-Tech in Electrical Engineering
• National Diploma in Electrical Engineering
• 1 – 2 years substation experience
Other Requirements:
Valid Driver’s license
Must be able to work overtime and outside of normal working hours
May be required to work out of town for extended periods of time
Special Skills and Abilities:
• Ability to use a wide range of testing equipment and to fully understand the associated safety requirements.
• Ability to set and test protective relays and repair switchgear controls.
• Ability to accurately and clearly document information in forms and to prepare reports.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
Duties and responsibilities:
- Operates and maintains substations; tests oil from circuit breakers, voltage regulators and
Transformers.
- Checks, operates and maintains mechanical and electrical parts in the circuit
breakers, voltage regulators, control panels, and transformers
- Operates and maintains substation controls, alarm points; performs new wiring of substations
- Keeps accurate logs on all substations and relaying.
- Operates and maintains the Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS)
- Utilizes CEMS data for operation of gas turbine generation equipment in compliance with
applicable local, state, and federal regulations; maintains CEMS database, and prepares
for submittal by the Department to the applicable regulatory agencies all reports and
submittals required by air quality permits.
- Tests protective relaying systems; trouble shoots, diagnoses, and repairs problems found.
- Installs, operates, and maintains protective relaying for power systems; installs, operates,
maintains, and wires switch gear equipment for transfer of power.
- Installs, maintains, repairs, troubleshoots and programs the PLC’s (Programmable Logic
Controllers) used in the electrical and water systems.
- Participates in substation switching procedures during planned and emergency repairs and
outages.
- Routinely inspects substations and battery installations and records observations and
makes necessary repairs and corrections. Uses laptop for inspection to track trends within
transformers and regulators.
- Has working knowledge of filter press in adding or filtering oil in transformers, OCB’s
and regulators.
- Installs, maintains and trouble shoots SCADA system.
- Responds to requests from other City Departments on a “when available basis” to
maintain or install basic electrical systems and equipment when request is coordinated
through Generation/Substation Lead worker.
- Installs, inspects, operates, and maintains Murray City Power Department generation
units including gas turbine/generators, and hydro-electric turbine/generators, and all
associated equipment and facilities.
- Provides regular operation and maintenance of power equipment; repairs electrical wiring
on power equipment; checks and repairs ignition systems.
- Trouble shoots and diagnoses problems during emergency shutdowns; may perform
overhaul work on generation equipment as appropriate to level of training.
Substation Technician
A substation Technician performs predictive, preventative and corrective maintenance, and operation of equipment in distribution, transmission and generation station facilities.
The focus is on implementing the Association’s reliability centered maintenance program and on data collection analysis and trending involved in predictive maintenance.
A substation technician is a member of a skilled technical team, including other substation and generation technical personnel, individuals in this position will install, commission, maintain, and evaluate for maintenance all types of Substation equipment. In addition, these individuals will assist other technical personnel in the performance of their duties.
Report To:
A substation Technician will report directly to the Senior Substation Technician
Common duties include but not limited to:
Qualifications:
• An S4
• B-Tech in Electrical Engineering
• National Diploma in Electrical Engineering
• 1 – 2 years substation experience
Other Requirements:
Valid Driver’s license
Must be able to work overtime and outside of normal working hours
May be required to work out of town for extended periods of time
Special Skills and Abilities:
• Ability to use a wide range of testing equipment and to fully understand the associated safety requirements.
• Ability to set and test protective relays and repair switchgear controls.
• Ability to accurately and clearly document information in forms and to prepare reports.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
Duties and responsibilities:
· Operates and maintains substations; tests oil from circuit breakers, voltage regulators and
Transformers.
· Checks, operates and maintains mechanical and electrical parts in the circuit
breakers, voltage regulators, control panels, and transformers
· Operates and maintains substation controls, alarm points; performs new wiring of substations
· Keeps accurate logs on all substations and relaying.
· Operates and maintains the Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS)
· Utilizes CEMS data for operation of gas turbine generation equipment in compliance with
applicable local, state, and federal regulations; maintains CEMS database, and prepares
for submittal by the Department to the applicable regulatory agencies all reports and
submittals required by air quality permits.
· Tests protective relaying systems; trouble shoots, diagnoses, and repairs problems found.
· Installs, operates, and maintains protective relaying for power systems; installs, operates,
maintains, and wires switch gear equipment for transfer of power.
· Installs, maintains, repairs, troubleshoots and programs the PLC’s (Programmable Logic
Controllers) used in the electrical and water systems.
· Participates in substation switching procedures during planned and emergency repairs and
outages.
· Routinely inspects substations and battery installations and records observations and
makes necessary repairs and corrections. Uses laptop for inspection to track trends within
transformers and regulators.
· Has working knowledge of filter press in adding or filtering oil in transformers, OCB’s
and regulators.
· Installs, maintains and trouble shoots SCADA system.
· Responds to requests from other City Departments on a “when available basis” to
maintain or install basic electrical systems and equipment when request is coordinated
through Generation/Substation Lead worker.
· Installs, inspects, operates, and maintains Murray City Power Department generation
units including gas turbine/generators, and hydro-electric turbine/generators, and all
associated equipment and facilities.
· Provides regular operation and maintenance of power equipment; repairs electrical wiring
on power equipment; checks and repairs ignition systems.
· Trouble shoots and diagnoses problems during emergency shutdowns; may perform
overhaul work on generation equipment as appropriate to level of training.
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