Senior Engineer, Technical Field Services — Power Reliability

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

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.