POWER HOUSE OPERATOR II

Trident Seafoods is the largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company in North America. Trident is a privately held, 100 percent USA-owned company with primary seafood processing operations and fleet support in twelve Alaska communities. Trident’s global operations produce finished wild Alaska seafood products in 6 countries and its sales teams serve customers in over 50 countries. Trident employs approximately 9,000 people worldwide each year and partners with over 5,400 independent fishermen and crewmembers. Species harvested and processed by Trident include virtually every commercial species of salmon, whitefish, and crab harvested in the North Pacific and Alaska. The global supply chain also includes cultured and wild species from a network of trusted sources worldwide. 

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Summary:  

Oversees the operation of power generating equipment, including boilers, generators, or reactors.  Ensures the regular monitoring, repair, and maintenance of power plant and auxiliary equipment such as pumps, fans, compressors, and condensers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversees the operation of power plant equipment and indicators to detect evidence of operating problems.
• Controls or maintains auxiliary equipment, such as pumps, fans, compressors, condensers, feed water pumps, filters, to supply water, fuel, lubricants, air, or auxiliary power.
• Regulates equipment operations and conditions, such as water levels, based on instrument data or from monitors.
• Starts or stops generators, auxiliary pumping equipment, or other power plant equipment when necessary.
• Records and compiles operational data by completing and maintaining forms, logs, or reports.
• Ensures regular maintenance of equipment, such as generators, pumps, or compressors, to prevent failure or deterioration is scheduled and completed.
• Provides regulatory reporting as needed, at established intervals, based on readings from charts.
• Inspects records or logbook entries or communicates with plant personnel to assess equipment operating status.
• Places standby emergency electrical generators online in emergencies and monitors the temperature, output, and lubrication of the system.
• Establishes cadence for examination and testing of electrical power distribution machinery and equipment, using testing devices.
• Receives outage calls and requests necessary personnel during power outages or emergencies.
• Operates or maintains distributed power generation equipment, including produce energy on-site for processing or other commercial purposes.
• Other duties as assigned.

Additional Responsibilities: 

• Acquires knowledge of Trident’s Environmental and Safety Policies by completing required training programs and performing designated work activities in accordance with training and procedures/work instructions.
• Notifies designated personnel of any environmental or safety incidents or risks not previously documented, in accordance with Environmental Awareness and/or safety trainings.

Experience/Education:

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience operating powerhouse systems and controls.
•  One year certificate from college or technical school; or six months to one-year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred Training and Skills: 

Special Training/Skills:

Physical Demands & Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision and depth perception.

Must be capable of boarding and departing (exiting) a vessel without assistance by moving up or climbing a gangplank, the stern ramp of a vessel and/or a vertical ladder. Must be capable of boarding/departing the vessel by being lifted in a crane or manlift. May also enter and exit a skiff from a dock, plane, or a boat unassisted. Must meet at designated locations to receive instructions and place on a life jacket and an immersion suit without assistance in one minute or less. Must also move quickly without assistance to any designated lifeboat station.

Mental Activities:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use teamwork skills.  The employee will occasionally use interpersonal and customer service skills.