Power Plant Engineer: Gas Turbine Ops & Commissioning

SpaceX; Starbase (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Senior Power Plant Engineer to design, build and operate a full-scale power plant with gas turbines and balance-of-plant systems. You’ll own commissioning in the control room at startup and troubleshoot in the field to keep the plant at rated output.

Requires hands-on experience with utility-scale turbines, field deployment, and strong problem-solving skills in high-pressure startup and outage scenarios.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical/electrical engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on gas turbine commissioning, operations or maintenance.
• Experience reading P&IDs, single-line diagrams, and turbine control logic.

Responsibilities

• Support full lifecycle of gas turbine assets: installation, commissioning, startup, operations, and long-term maintenance.
• Lead/assist commissioning: combustion tuning, control system checkout, protective relay testing, performance verification.
• Own RCA for turbine trips, outages, and degradation; drive corrective actions.
• Develop and refine operating procedures, startup/shutdown sequences, and abnormal conditions playbooks.
• Interface with OEMs (GE, Siemens Energy, Mitsubishi, Doosan) on warranties, LTSA, outages, issues.
• Plan and execute inspections, outages, and inspections per OEM intervals.
• Analyze turbine performance data to identify efficiency losses and actions.
• Coordinate with balance-of-plant teams to ensure integrated performance.
• Build relationships with EPCs during construction handoff for smooth transition to operations.

Skills

Gas turbine commissioning

Root-cause analysis

Field troubleshooting

Startup/shutdown

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering

Tools

SOLIDWORKS

Siemens NX

Mark VIe / SPPA-T3000

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Senior Power Plant Engineer to design, build and operate a full-scale power plant with gas turbines and balance-of-plant systems. You’ll own commissioning in the control room at startup and troubleshoot in the field to keep the plant at rated output.

Requires hands-on experience with utility-scale turbines, field deployment, and strong problem-solving skills in high-pressure startup and outage scenarios.