Job Ref: # 834572
Date Posted: 7/13/2026
Location: Blackstone, Massachusetts
Salary (USD): $38 - $64
Description
The Power Plant Technician / Control Room Operator is responsible for safely operating, monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining power plant systems to ensure reliable electricity generation. This role supports plant start-ups, shutdowns, preventive maintenance, emergency response, environmental compliance, and equipment reliability while working in a fast-paced combined-cycle power generation environment.
This position is ideal for experienced power plant operators, military power generation specialists, nuclear operators, boiler operators, or industrial maintenance professionals who thrive in highly technical environments and enjoy operating critical infrastructure.
Must-Have Skills, Experience, and Education:
- High School Diploma or GED required.
- Minimum 6 years of related power generation or industrial operations experience.
- Massachusetts 2nd Class Engineer's License preferred (or equivalent state-recognized operating license where applicable).
- Experience operating steam vessels rated at 150 HP or greater.
- Strong understanding of:
- Power plant operations
- Mechanical systems
- Electrical systems
- Plant instrumentation and controls
- Experience performing equipment startup, shutdown, and normal operating procedures.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to successfully complete the POSS/MASS (Plant Operator Selection System / Power Plant Operations & Maintenance) assessment.
- Ability to read instrumentation, gauges, control systems, and computer-generated operating data.
Requirements:
- Operate, monitor, and maintain power plant equipment and systems during normal and abnormal operating conditions.
- Perform startup, shutdown, and routine operating procedures.
- Respond to alarms and abnormal operating conditions using established operating procedures.
- Perform electrical switching, tagging, and lockout/tagout activities.
- Conduct preventive, corrective, and emergency maintenance on mechanical and electrical equipment.
- Perform routine cycle chemistry testing and adjust operating parameters as necessary.
- Maintain operating logs, environmental records, and maintenance documentation.
- Utilize the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to document maintenance activities.
- Support plant housekeeping and maintain a safe work environment.
- Ensure compliance with environmental permits and all safety regulations.
- Support continuous improvement and complete additional duties as assigned.
Nice-to-Have Skills, Experience, and Education:
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts 2nd Class Engineer's License.
- Military experience in:
- Navy Nuclear Power
- Army Prime Power
- Power Generation
- Utilities
- Stationary Engineer
- Combined-cycle or fossil power plant experience.
- Experience with CMMS systems.
- Knowledge of plant chemistry programs.
- Experience with electrical switching and lockout/tagout procedures.
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