Senior Engineer – Technical Field Services

Socket.dev; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation seeks a Senior Engineer – Technical Field Services to provide engineering support across diesel generation facilities, combustion turbine plants, mobile substations, and member cooperatives.

This role ensures safe, compliant, and dependable service by directing field testing, maintenance coordination, regulatory compliance, and asset lifecycle activities in collaboration with plant personnel, contractors, vendors, and internal teams.

Qualifications

• Must have a bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited program and be a registered Professional Engineer in North Carolina.
• Minimum five years of progressively responsible engineering experience in utility operations or related electric utility functions.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering support for Technical Field Services, including field engineering, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance coordination, and technical issue resolution.
• Support NCEMC diesel generation facilities, including plant reliability, maintenance planning, outage readiness, troubleshooting, and long-term asset needs.
• Provide technical support for combustion turbine plants, including project coordination, equipment analysis, outage support, and plant upgrade review.
• Coordinate assigned PRC and PER compliance activities, including procedures, evidence, documentation, training support, and timely completion of compliance obligations.
• Provide technical guidance to field services personnel on testing, maintenance, troubleshooting, mobile substation readiness, and safe work practices.
• Support the Mobile Substation Program through readiness planning, procedures, maintenance coordination, deployment support, and member cooperative assistance.
• Analyze operating, maintenance, testing, and compliance trends to improve reliability, safety, regulatory compliance, and operational readiness.
• Develop and maintain engineering records, drawings, procedures, test records, maintenance documentation, and configuration control information.
• Coordinate with plant personnel, field services staff, compliance teams, member cooperatives, contractors, consultants, vendors, and internal departments.
• Support budgeting, capital project planning, procurement coordination, contract support, invoice review, and lifecycle asset management activities.
• Provide data, analysis, technical input, and reporting support for regulatory, compliance, operational, project, and member service activities.
• Participate in emergency response, storm support, outage response, field deployment, and plant support activities as needed.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Troubleshooting

Technical leadership

Project coordination

Stakeholder coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Professional Engineer (PE) in North Carolina

Job description

Division

Power Supply

Summary Description

The Senior Engineer – Technical Field Services provides engineering support for NCEMC’s diesel generation facilities, combustion turbine plants, mobile substations, and member cooperative support activities. This position applies engineering experience to support reliable operations, regulatory compliance, project execution, equipment troubleshooting, technical documentation, and continuous improvement across generation and field services assets. The role works closely with internal teams, plant personnel, contractors, vendors, and member cooperatives to help ensure safe, compliant, and dependable service.

Academic and Trade Qualifications

A bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited engineering program is required as well as being a registered Professional Engineer in North Carolina.

Work Experience

A minimum of five years of progressively responsible engineering work in utility operations, power generation, technical field services, substation support, system protection, compliance, or related electric utility functions is preferred. Experience supporting diesel generation, combustion turbine facilities, mobile substations, field testing, or NERC compliance activities is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering support for Technical Field Services, including field engineering, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance coordination, and technical issue resolution.


• Support NCEMC diesel generation facilities, including plant reliability, maintenance planning, outage readiness, troubleshooting, and long-term asset needs.


• Provide technical support for combustion turbine plants, including project coordination, equipment analysis, outage support, and plant upgrade review.


• Coordinate assigned PRC and PER compliance activities, including procedures, evidence, documentation, training support, and timely completion of compliance obligations.


• Provide technical guidance to field services personnel on testing, maintenance, troubleshooting, mobile substation readiness, and safe work practices.


• Support the Mobile Substation Program through readiness planning, procedures, maintenance coordination, deployment support, and member cooperative assistance.


• Analyze operating, maintenance, testing, and compliance trends to improve reliability, safety, regulatory compliance, and operational readiness.


• Develop and maintain engineering records, drawings, procedures, test records, maintenance documentation, and configuration control information.


• Coordinate with plant personnel, field services staff, compliance teams, member cooperatives, contractors, consultants, vendors, and internal departments.


• Support budgeting, capital project planning, procurement coordination, contract support, invoice review, and lifecycle asset management activities.


• Provide data, analysis, technical input, and reporting support for regulatory, compliance, operational, project, and member service activities.


• Participate in emergency response, storm support, outage response, field deployment, and plant support activities as needed.

Job Knowledge

Must have a strong working knowledge of electric utility operations, project management, preventative and predictive maintenance, and all safety practices.

Other preferred knowledge areas include diesel generation, combustion turbine plants, technical field services, protective relay and control systems, substation equipment, mobile substations, and applicable reliability compliance standards.

Abilities and Skills

Must be able to work effectively with internal and external contacts, provide technical leadership without direct supervisory authority, and coordinate multiple priorities across generation, compliance, field services, and member support functions. Must be self-motivated and able to manage multiple complex projects at the same time. Strong analytical, troubleshooting, written communication, procedure development, documentation, teamwork, responsiveness, and stakeholder coordination skills are required.

Working Conditions

Normal office conditions with regular travel to diesel generation facilities, combustion turbine plants, member cooperative locations, substations, field services work sites, the NCEMC main office, industry meetings, and other locations as needed. Work outside normal business hours may be required for outages, emergency response, storm support, compliance deadlines, plant operating events, field deployments, or critical project activities.

NCEMC’s current work schedule is three (3) days in the office, M/W/Th, and two (2) days remote, T/F.

Work Authorization

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States now and in the future. The company does not provide visa sponsorship or any immigration support for this position.

Reports to

Director, Asset Management

Company Profile

North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives()is the brand for the family of organizations formed to support the state’s 26 local electric cooperatives, including: North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation, the power supplier to many of the electric cooperatives; North Carolina Association of Electric Cooperatives, the cooperatives’ trade association; and Tarheel Electric Membership Association, Inc. (TEMA), a central purchasing and materials-supply cooperative.

North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment.