PGD Engineering Leader

NextEra Energy Services; Florida; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NextEra Energy, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Leader to guide a team of combustion turbine engineers in support of Siemens 8000H and Mitsubishi 501G technologies at the Florida Power & Light fleet.

You will lead reliability improvements, coordinate outages, and drive root-cause analyses while reporting to senior leadership. Travel up to 15% and after-hours support are expected in a dynamic, safety-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
• Experience: 6+ years in gas turbine engineering and leadership.
• Weekend/overnight travel may be required up to 15% of time.
• After-hours support is expected and may include phone consultations.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical oversight for troubleshooting and decision-making across the fleet.
• Manage RCAs, engineering requests, work orders, OEM bulletins and reliability projects.
• Lead outage planning and annual budget planning with fleet lessons learned.

Skills

Gas turbine engineering

Technical leadership

Root cause analysis

Outage planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Master's Degree

Job description

PGD Engineering Leader

Company: NextEra Energy

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
• Complex Root Cause Analysis (RCA) experience

Job Overview

Employees in this role lead a team of engineers or technical specialists that perform engineering functions. This may include negotiating critical and controversial issues with top level engineers and officers of other organizations and companies and having responsibility for one or more programs of such diversity and scope to be of critical importance to overall company objectives.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• 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

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's - Engineering from an ABET-accredited engineering program
• Experience: 6+ years
• Leadership Experience: 2+ years, with or without direct reports

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Professional Engineer (PE)
• Master's Degree

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

Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Engineering
Organization: Florida Power & Light Company
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

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