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Florida Power & Light · 1 week ago

Combustion Turbine Engineering Leader

Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S., delivering clean, affordable, and reliable electricity to approximately 12 million Floridians. The Engineering Leader will oversee a team of combustion turbine engineers, responsible for reliability, troubleshooting, technical investigations, and outage planning, while managing strategic initiatives and reporting on performance to upper management.

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Hiring Manager

Victoria Amodie

Responsibilities

Provide technical oversight and guidance for trouble shooting and technical decision making, ensuring consistency across the GE 7F/7H fleet, both Combined Cycle and Simple Cycle turbines

Manage documentation and currency of Engineering Requests, Work Orders, OEM Bulletins and change management in our work management system, Maximo

Support proactive outage planning and annual budget planning, ensuring that plans account for GE 7F/7H fleet lessons learned

Foster a team culture that embodies the NextEra values and promotes safety and collaboration

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 decision making for the GE 7F/7H combustion turbine fleet

Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in anticipating and solving unprecedented engineering/technical complexities, determining program objectives and requirements, organizing programs and projects

Develops standards and guidelines for diverse technical and engineering activities

Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Qualification

Combustion turbine engineeringRoot Cause AnalysisTechnical leadershipSix Sigma certificationMaximoCommunication skillsTeam collaborationProblem-solving

Required

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Experience: 10+ years combustion and/or turbomachinery engineering

Demonstrated technical leadership experience

Overnight travel may be required, but typically does not average more than 15% on an annual basis

After-hours support is expected and typically involves phone consultations and occasional call outs

Bachelor's - Engineering

Experience: 7+ years

Preferred

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

Certified Professional Engineer (PE)

Six Sigma Black Belt Certified

Six Sigma Green Belt Certified

Master's Degree

Six Sigma Master Black Belt

Benefits

NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members.

Company

Florida Power & Light

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Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc.

Founded in 1925

Florida, New York, USA

5001-10000 employees

https://www.fpl.com/

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