About this role
Requisition ID: 97704
Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S., providing reliable energy to nearly 12 million Floridians. With one of the nation’s most fuel-efficient, cost-effective power generation fleets and industry-leading reliability, we’re redefining what’s possible in energy. Want to be part of something powerful? Join our outstanding team and help shape the future of energy.
Position Specific Description
NextEra Energy’s Power Generation Division is seeking an Engineering Leader to support Siemens Energy 8000H and Mitsubishi Power 501G combustion turbine technologies. This role will lead a team of combustion turbine engineers across varying experience levels, with responsibility for fleet reliability, troubleshooting, technical investigations, root cause analysis, issue resolution, and outage planning. The Engineering Leader will define and drive strategic initiatives while providing regular updates to senior leadership on the overall performance and health of NextEra’s combustion turbine fleet.
Success in this role requires effectively balancing long-term reliability and overhaul strategies with evolving business priorities. Building and maintaining strong relationships with direct reports, plant leadership, operations teams, central maintenance, peer engineering organizations, and OEMs/contractors is essential to ensuring team effectiveness and fleet performance.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
The Engineering Leader of the Siemens and MHI Combustion Turbine technology will own and be accountable for the following key responsibilities:
- Foster a team culture that embodies the NextEra values and promotes safety and collaboration.
- Provide technical oversight and guidance for trouble shooting and technical decision making, ensuring consistency across the FPL fleet of Combined Cycle and Simple Cycle turbines.
- Manage RCAs, Engineering Requests, Work Orders, OEM Bulletins, Reliability Projects, and Upgrade Projects.
- Support proactive outage planning and annual budget planning, ensuring that plans account for fleet lessons learned.
- Manage OEM relationship while advancing technical issues towards swift resolutions keeping long term goals in mind.
- Consolidation and presentation of root cause analyses, fleet challenges, and OEM progress to senior leadership.
- Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in planning, organizing, and guiding extensive engineering programs and activities
- Leadership of team communication rhythms and accountability for risk assessment and technical recommendations.
- Mentorship and career guidance for engineering team, rotational team members and interns.
The Ideal Candidate Would Have The Following:
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- Experience: 10+ years gas turbine engineering
- Demonstrated technical leadership experience
- Overnight travel may be required, but typically does not average more than 15%
- After-hours support is expected and typically involves phone consultations and occasional call outs.
Additional Qualifications:
- 15+ years of combustion turbine engineering experience
- Strong communications/presentation skills
- Demonstrated field and/or design experience
- Six Sigma certification
- Complex Root Cause Analysis (RCA) experience