Power Plant Mechanic

At Cleco, we're not just powering lives—we're powering a cleaner, smarter future for Louisiana. With bold investments in innovative energy solutions, we’re transforming how we power our communities: smarter, cleaner, and more sustainable. This is a long-term commitment to our people and our communities because our future—and the future of generations to come—depends on it. If you're ready to make an impact where it matters most, join us at Cleco—where we're Energizing Your Tomorrow.

The Power Plant Mechanic II is an experienced technician that performs power plant maintenance activities involving the identification, diagnosis, and repair of power plant mechanical equipment issues. Nature of plant mechanical work is complex and requires technical practices skills and knowledge in principles of precision maintenance.

Key Responsibilities

- Champions a corporate culture that emphasizes transparency, integrity, safety, environmental responsibility, employee development, diversity and inclusion, customer service, and operational excellence.

- Diagnoses complex mechanical problems, recommends, directs and performs corrective action on mechanical equipment to maximize plant reliability, availability and performance.

- Performs preventative maintenance, inspections, overhauls and upgrades on mechanical related equipment to avoid unscheduled downtime.

- Uses the SAP system to provide, evaluate and maintain concise maintenance and equipment records to achieve an accurate historical account for future references.

- Communicates and coordinates with plant operations to maintain efficiency and performance.

- Provides oversight of appropriate contractors for routine and outage maintenance activities.

- Communicates to their supervisor to provide updates on maintenance activities, and identify risks in delivery or resourcing needs.

Qualifications

Required Education, Skills & Experience

- High School Diploma or equivalent with related vocational or technical training preferred

- 3-5+ years of related experience

- Step progression levels based on skill proficiency and scope of job.

- Knowledge of leading practices for their area of expertise

- Planning and project management skills

- Willingness and ability to learn new technologies on the job

- Proficient at functioning effectively within a team environment, present ideas and opinions in a respective and collegial manner

- Progression to this level is strictly restricted based on critical individual capabilities and business requirements

Key Competencies

BEHAVIORAL

- Balances stakeholders

- Builds effective teams

- Business insight

- Communicates effectively

- Courage

- Demonstrates self-awareness

- Drives Results

- Drives Vision and Purpose

- Ensures Accountability

- Instills trust

- Nimble learning

- Plans and Aligns

- Safety

- Strategic mindset

TECHNICAL

- Analytical skills

- Compliance

- Plant Equipment Utilization

- Plant Operations

- Operations Quality

- Operations Resource Management

- Operations Risk Management

May perform other duties as assigned.

Salary dependent on experience, skills, education and training.