Generator Specialist
About the job
- A high school diploma or equivalency is required; an engineering degree is preferred.
- At least 3 to 5 years of experience in testing, inspecting, and repairing rotating electrical equipment is required.
- Demonstrated leadership and communication skills are required.
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally, including extensive travel, is required.
- Ability and willingness to work in the St. Louis shop, industrial sites, chemical plants or sites, and power plants is required.
- Ability and willingness to access nuclear power stations requiring drug screens and background investigations is required.
- Good computer skills are required.
- Ability to upsell the repairs being performed is required.
- Ability to multitask and work on more than one project is required.
- Disassemble, reassemble, rewind, repair, and test individual mechanical and electrical components and fully assembled units.
- Direct qualified crews of technicians and winders while providing technical guidance and direction.
- Serve as the onsite interface with the customer.
- Assemble a detailed report for each job containing the specific technical information pertaining to the work performed.
- Perform repair and testing services on rotating electrical equipment, including large or complicated AC/DC equipment, power generator rotating fields and stators, motor armatures and fields, brushless and direct-current exciters, and collector assemblies.
- Travel throughout the year, including some holidays.
- Bilingual ability is preferred.
About the company
Mechanical Dynamics & Analysis, known as MD&A, services gas, steam and industrial turbines and generators for power producers worldwide. Its engineers and field teams handle equipment inspections, outage planning, technical direction, troubleshooting, alignment and performance analysis. The company combines work at customer plants with repair facilities that refurbish turbine and generator components, machine precision parts and support equipment overhauls. It also supplies replacement components, controls services and engineered upgrades as an alternative source for equipment maintenance and life extension. Founded in 1982, MD&A is headquartered in Latham, New York.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Latham, NY
Founded
1982
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What believers are saying
- Structured mentoring: engineer trainees spend approximately two years learning turbine inspections with senior field engineers.
- Employer-paid protection: careers benefits include company-paid disability and life insurance.
- Shift premium: the Euclid CNC machinist posting offers a 20% differential for second-shift hours.
What critics are saying
- Outage-season workload: the Euclid machining shop advertises a full schedule of 50 hours or more.
- Extensive travel: the engineer training program requires US travel and occasional short overseas assignments.
- Broad onsite responsibility: gas turbine field engineers oversee site safety, labor and project financials.
What makes Mechanical Dynamics & Analysis unique
- Patented seal design: Guardian packing rings maintain radial sealing through shutdown, startup and operating conditions.
- Reduced reassembly: Topless Alignment measures shell deflections and bore positions without tops-on turbine measurements.
- Narrow-gap inspection: the Air Gap-Bot enters 0.9-inch generator gaps and inspects without removing the field.
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