Stationary Engineer (Nights)

Company: Denver Health
Location: Denver
Posted on: January 27, 2023

Job Description:

Stationary Engineer (Nights) (Job ID: 12650)Job SummaryStart up, regulate, repair, monitor, and shut down Central Utility Plant equipment. Monitor meters, gauges, and computerized controls to ensure that equipment operates safely and within established limits. Use sophisticated electrical and electronic test equipment when servicing, troubleshooting, repairing, and monitoring heating, cooling, and ventilation systems.

Responsibilities
1. Operates and maintains stationary engines and mechanical equipment, such as steam engines, air compressors, generators, motors, turbines, chillers, cooling towers, and steam boilers, to provide utilities, such as light, heat, or power, for buildings and industrial processes. 2. Reads meters and gauges or automatic recording devices at specified intervals to verify operating conditions. 3. Records data, such as temperature of equipment, hours of operation, fuel consumed, temperature or pressure, water levels, analysis of flue gases, voltage load, and generator balance. 4. Adjusts manual controls or overrides automatic controls to bring equipment into recommended or prescribed operating ranges, switch to backup equipment or systems, or to shut down equipment 5. Visually inspects equipment at periodic intervals to detect malfunctions or need for repair, adjustment, or lubrication. 6. Maintains equipment by tightening fittings, repacking bearings, replacing packing glands, gaskets, valves, recorders, and gauges, and cleaning or replacing burners or other components, using hand tools and power tools 7. Perform water titration tests and pour chemical additives, such as water softener, into treatment tank to prevent scale buildup and to clean boiler lines. 8. Record operation and maintenance actions taken during shift in operator's logbook. 9. Specialize in equipment designed for industrial processes and be designated Acid-Concentration-Plant-Equipment Engineer; Air-Compressor-Station Engineer; Diesel-Engine Operator, Stationary; Water-Pumping-Station Engineer. 10. Other duties as assigned.
Education 1. High School Diploma or GED
Experience 1. Three (3) years operational experience in a boiler plant. 2. Three (3) years operational experience in a chiller plant.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities 1. Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. 2. Skill in obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work. 3. Ability to read blueprints, schematics, specifications, and technical drawings.
Computers and Technology 1. Knowledge of computerized monitoring software for Central Utility Plants
Certificates, Licenses and Registration 1. State of Colorado Stationary Engineer license preferred
Supervisory Responsibilities 1. This position has no supervisory responsibilities

Location
Denver Health Main Campus
Shift
NightsWork Type
Full time
Pay RangeMinimum: 25.86Midpoint: 32.32Maximum: 38.79All job applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test, once a conditional offer of employment has been made. Denver Health is an integrated, high-quality academic health care system considered a model for the nation that includes a Level I Trauma Center, a 555-bed acute care medical center, Denver's 911 emergency medical response system, 10 family health centers, 18 school-based health centers, Rocky Mountain Poison and Safety, a Public Health department, an HMO and The Denver Health Foundation.As Colorado's primary, and essential, safety-net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided billions in uncompensated care for the uninsured. Denver Health is viewed as an Anchor Institution for the community, focusing on hiring and purchasing locally as applicable, serving as a pillar for community needs, and caring for more than 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year.Located near downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer.We strongly support diversity in the workforce and Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). Denver Health is committed to provide equal treatment and equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. As an EOE, Denver Health does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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