Field Service Engineer - Experienced Career Engineering Training Program (P)
Siemens Energy
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Job summary
Siemens Energy is seeking a Field Service Engineer to support gas and steam turbines, generators, and auxiliary systems across North America. The role involves leading outages, diagnosing issues, and collaborating with global teams to deliver reliable electrical power generation.
Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree in engineering, 3+ years of field service experience, and willingness to travel up to 250 days/year.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent military/industrial experience with high school diploma/associate degree.
- 3+ years of field service, outage, maintenance, commissioning or power generation experience (higher level for more experience).
- Experience working around rotating equipment.
- Strong mechanical troubleshooting and customer-facing communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Supervise technicians during power plant maintenance outages and address planned/unplanned outages.
- Disassemble, inspect, and reassemble turbines and generators to ensure optimal performance.
- Collaborate with a global engineering team for mechanical and electrical testing and act as primary customer contact during outages.
- Diagnose mechanical and electrical equipment issues and perform inspections, measurements and testing.
- Support commissioning, startup and modernization projects while ensuring safety compliance.
Skills
Education
Job description
As a Field Service Engineer, you’ll travel across North America to support major gas and steam turbines, generators, and auxiliary systems. No two days are the same—one week you might lead a turbine outage in Texas, and the next, troubleshoot generator performance in Florida or assist with a key project in Canada.
- During your first 12 months, you will complete classroom and instructor led training in Orlando, FL and Houston, TX (Deer Park) and participate in on-the-job training with expert engineers at multiple customer sites across the US. This will include working directly with our leading staff of field service engineers to develop skills in equipment operation, maintenance, job site safety, project management, leadership, and Siemens Energy’s business systems.
- Develop essential skills in equipment operation, maintenance, job site safety, project management, leadership, and Siemens Energy’s business systems alongside our leading FSE staff.
- Supervise technicians and mechanics during power plant maintenance shutdowns, addressing both planned and unplanned maintenance outages due to equipment performance issues.
- Disassemble, inspect, and reassemble turbines and generators, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
- Collaborate with our global engineering team to conduct specialized mechanical and electrical testing, serving as the primary customer contact during outages to ensure timely and accurate repairs.
- Diagnosing mechanical and electrical equipment issues.
- Execute inspections, measurements and performance testing.
- Support commissioning, startup and modernization projects.
- Ensure compliance with all Siemens Energy and customer safety standards.
- A bachelor’s degree in engineering, or an equivalent combination of military and/or industrial experience along with a high school diploma or an associate degree.
- 3 or years of field service, outage, maintenance, commissioning or power generation experience. Candidates with more experience can be considered at a higher level.
- Experience working around rotating equipment
- Strong mechanical troubleshooting skills
- Strong customer-facing communication skills
- Ability to travel extensively across North America for up to 250 days per year, with assignments lasting from 2 to 15 weeks at a time, and a willingness to work extended hours of 12-14 hours per day, including weekends and holidays, resulting in a typical work week of 60-84 hours.
- A self-starting leader who effectively utilizes available resources to create innovative solutions for challenging mechanical issues.
- Must be physically capable of ascending and descending ladders, inspecting equipment in confined spaces, and lifting boxes weighing up to 40 pounds.
- This program offers a flexible schedule that enhances your professional impact, earning potential, and work-life balance. We are currently recruiting for our next class, which will commence in January and February 2027. Our recruitment timeline includes an in-person interviewing event in Orlando and/or Houston during phases starting in Sept.
- Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.
- This position requires driving as an essential job function. Candidates must hold a valid driver's license and have an acceptable driving record at the time of application. Employees must continue to maintain these requirements throughout their employment and may be subject to periodic driving record reviews in accordance with company policy and applicable laws.
- Gas turbine experience
- Steam turbine experience
- Generator experience
- Power plant operations experience
- Navy Nuclear background
- Combined-cycle plant experience
- Worked with a competitor or a Solar Turbines experience
- Field engineers can advance into:
- Senior Field Engineer
- Technical Specialist
- Outage Manager
- Service Operations Manager
- Product Line Expert
- Global Technical Advisor
- Orlando Training Center
- Hands-on turbine and generator training
- Global technical network
- Advanced leadership development
Our technologies help generate approximately one-sixth of the world's electricity while enabling the global energy transition.
Our Gas Services division offers Low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. Zero or low emission power generation and all gas turbines under one roof, steam turbines and generators. Decarbonization opportunities through service offerings, modernization, and digitalization of the fleet.
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
- Career growth and development opportunities
- Supportive work culture
- Company paid Health and wellness benefits
- Paid Time Off and paid holidays
- 401K savings plan with company match
- Family building benefits
- Parental leave
- This role may be based in various locations across the United States. Siemens Energy offers a variety of health and wellness benefits, including paid time off and holiday pay. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://benefitsatenergy.com/thinking-of-joining.html
- The base salary range for this position varies by location. For positions based in the United States, the base salary range is $70,000.00 to $100,000.00 annually, and the annual incentive target is from 0% to insert 10% of the base salary.
- Overtime earning opportunities
- Premium holiday pay, where applicable
- Daily per diem while traveling
- Travel-related compensation and reimbursement
- Annual performance incentive opportunities
- Employee referral bonus programs
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Siemens Energy is an Equal Opportunity and Affinitive Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local
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