Tri-State is a Denver based progressive and growing non-profit consumer-owned wholesale supplier of electric power to forty-four distribution cooperatives in Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and New Mexico. The headquarters is located in Westminster, Colorado, and Tri-State employs about 1,200 people throughout the four-state service area.

Tri-State’s power is generated through a combination of owned base load and peaking power plants that use coal and natural gas as their primary fuels, supplemented by purchased power, federal hydroelectricity allocations and renewable resource technologies.

The Combustion Turbine Technician is responsible for the safe and efficient operation and maintenance of plant activities at our Limon, Colorado peaking plant with two GE simple cycle duel fuel combustion turbine Frame-7001 EA with DLN. The job duties for this position include performing multi-unit operations and completion of the preventive, predictive and corrective maintenances, conducting inspections of major equipment (including combustion turbine equipment); and ensuring maintenance records and logs of plant activities are accurate and complete. The CT Technician will evaluate and troubleshoot site and combustion turbine equipment to determine any corrective repairs or modification, and follow through with repairs and maintenance as necessary, with supervision as appropriate. The CT Technician ensures the safe start-up, operation and shut down of the combustion turbine units, as well as coordinates (through the use of dispatch operating procedures) the site megawatt loads, units online or offline times, and unit unscheduled outages.

The following requirements are for a Journey Level (JL) Combustion Turbine Technician. Requirements for the Combustion Turbine Tech IV are similar but less in overall scope, responsibility and accountability. Tri-State will hire at the appropriate job level based on the background of the selected candidate and business need at the time of hire.

• Six (6) years of Gas Turbine power plant experience (this may consist of an equivalent combination of related education and/or power plant experience).

• Must have strong mechanical and electrical troubleshooting, repair and rebuild skills of MCC, contactors, generator breakers, motors, coupling, pumps, control valves, predictive switches and transmitters.

• Must be willing to work within high voltages, obtain switching certification, and perform high voltage switching.

• Must be willing to work extra or irregular hours, shift work, weekends, holidays, call out and overnight travel. Will be required to work at our other power plants for outages or other special needs (estimated travel is 20%), and will have responsibility on a rotational basis to be on call 24 hours per day, 7 days per week as required.

• Must comply with all training and safety requirements, including the ability to perform first aid, and CPR and maintain a valid CPR certification, fulfill spill/waste handling training requirements and apply the training, complete respirator training and testing and obtain opacity certification twice per year, as well as other safety orientation and training as required.

• Must have strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to function as part of a team.

• Must possess and maintain a valid driver’s license and reside within 20 miles of the base location.

To be considered for this position, submit a resume and cover letter (include salary requirements) online at Apply online (careers section). You may also email a resume to Send Resume Tri-State offers a competitive salary and benefits package, and may offer some relocation assistance for this position.