ComEd - Corrosion Technician (Sr Engineering Tech)
Job Description
Job Title: ComEd - Corrosion Technician (Sr Engineering Tech)
Job ID: 12868
Location: IL - Maywood
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Job Family:
Engineering
Company Highlights
At Exelon, we've got a place for you. Exelon is developing sustainable energy to provide for the communities of today and planning for a brighter tomorrow. Exelon knows the future of energy is you.
As a Chicago based Fortune 150 Company, with more than $15 billion annual revenues, Exelon distributes electricity to approximately 5.4 million customers in Illinois and Pennsylvania, and gas to 480,000 customers in the Philadelphia area. In addition to energy delivery, Exelon's operations include energy generation and power marketing and has one of the industry's largest portfolios of electricity generation capacity, with a nationwide reach and strong positions in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic.
We know that before we can supply 41,000 megawatts of energy to our customers, we need to recognize that each of our employees plays an integral part in the process. The result? Changing the way the American power industry powers America. For you, this means advancement, challenge, and a company like no other.
Join Exelon and you can share your ideas at a forward-thinking company and the next big idea could be yours. You've just found Exelon, a place where you can truly shine.
Business Unit Overview
ComEd and its nearly 6,000 employees are responsible for maintaining more than 78,000 miles of power lines that make up the electric transmission and distribution system in Northern Illinois. ComEd also provides customer operations for more than 3.7 million customers across the region, or 70 percent of the state's population.
Locations in Northern Illinois including Chicago and surrounding suburbs
Job Description
Corrosion Tech Duties:
Responsibilities include conducting routine d-c potential surveys on the underground plant, periodic drainage cable readings, and acceptance checks on pipe type cable installations and periodic retesting for integrity of pipe coatings.
Fieldwork includes:
- Surveying existing cathodic protection systems.
- Provide analysis for maintenance or changes where necessary
- Investigation of cable failures due to corrosion issues
- Setting of data recording loggers and interpretation of data
- Conducting on the job consultation while equipment is being installed.
- Consult with engineers and other departments within the company.
- Conduct joint investigations (C.A.J.E.C.) of corrosion problems with corrosion personnel from other companies.
Office work consists of:
- The analysis of collected field data. This includes d-c surveys, cable drainage readings, monthly rectifier and bond switch readings, the results of joint surveys with other utilities and any other data collected.
- Creating work requests and condition reports with recommendations for cathodic protection equipment installation and maintenance including design data, the maintenance of maps and records.
- Review new proposed cable/conduit work to help avoid designs contrary to good corrosion protection
PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION
-Works independently on complex issues and large projects. Performs overall field testing activities including installation/commissioning tests, technical investigations, field-engineering analysis on malfunctioned electrical and electronic equipment to evaluate system maintenance and repair.
-Testing Group work is on transmission & distribution substation equipment.
-Distribution Testing work is on distribution equipment, generally outside substations.
Position may be required to work extended hours, including 24 x 7 coverage during storms or other energy delivery emergencies.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
Dist Testing:
-Performs testing assignments and provides guidance to newer engineer/technician (e.g. preventive and corrective maintenance on capacitors, regulators, small power transformers, communication equipment, ALRSs, MCRs, power factor analysis, feeder voltage profiles, feeder device coordination, cable fault locating, generator deployments, power quality investigations, ATOs, Network protectors).
-Evaluates the effectiveness of the current distribution system design (e.g., analyze and interpret complex field data gathered from tests).
-Evaluates, develops and implements new test equipment, tools and designs that have moderate financial and operational impact
-Evaluates effectiveness of current technical systems and processes. Participates on teams (e.g., works with Distribution engineering and manufacturers to implement new designs)
-Participates in training (e.g., attend ComEd, vendor and University classes; conduct training)
Testing Group:
-Perform preventative maintenance and corrective maintenance on distribution and transmission relays, communications equipment, power reclosers etc., using the guidelines listed in the Field Reference and the Maintenance Procedures manuals.
-Conduct basic hands-on acceptance and in-service testing of transmission and distribution equipment (e.g., transformers, circuit breakers, control and relay panels, SCADA, power line carrier, audio tone, etc.) Testing is performed per the guidelines included in the Field Reference Manual and the Maintenance Procedures Manuals.
-Assist with the restoration of malfunctioning transmission and distribution equipment, under emergency conditions, by performing the necessary hands-on testing as outlined in the Field Reference and Maintenance Procedures manuals.
-Complete required paperwork (reports, test data, blueprint corrections, relay settings, etc) as necessary to document work performed.
-Provide on-the-job and formal classroom training.
POSITION SPECIFICATIONS
Minimum:
-Successful completion of tech test.
-Associates degree in a technical field (1) or equivalent relevant education / experience (See Section Below) (2) AND 5 or more years of relevant technical experience
-Broad knowledge and experience with regulations, guides, standards, codes, methods, and practices necessary to perform assignments for a specific discipline for maintenance, testing, installation or service
-Testing Group positions require demonstrated ability to direct crews during maintenance or commissioning of equipment or systems
-Distribution Testing positions require demonstrated ability using OJE process to independently investigate and solve power quality inquiries, capability to perform cable fault locating, calibrate network centers and automatic throwover switches, ability to stage / start generators and test / troubleshoot commission distribution automation system equipment
-Strong organizational and interpersonal communication skills
-Valid drivers license
-Requires frequent travel to various company substations or other locations within the service territory
-Must be available to work shifts and respond to emergency situations (7 days per week / 24 hours per day)
Preferred:
-Bachelors degree in Engineering Technology
-Technical experience related to electrical power equipment.
-Equivalent Relevant Education / Experience
-Bachelors degree (technical field) (1) ¿ AND 3 or more years of relevant technical experience.
-Non-degreed or non-technical degree ¿ equivalent relevant education (2) AND 7 or more years of relevant technical experience
-(1) Examples of technical fields (non-engineer) include Engineering Technology, Electronics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, etc.
-(2) Relevant education / experience is knowledge and skills that may be acquired through job experiences or education programs related to those acquired through a formal technical degree program. Examples include experience gained in a military role applicable to electric power distribution, completion of a journey-level electrician program (e.g., overhead / underground electrician, electrical mechanic), or completion of a company-sponsored technical education program (e.g., Elements of Electrical Engineering (E3) series). The equivalent relevant education / experience is in addition to the position¿s minimum experience requirements.
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