Regional Engineer/Specialist

As an NRG employee, we encourage you to take charge of your career and development journey. We invite you to explore exciting opportunities across our businesses. You’ll find that our dynamic work environment provides variety and challenge. Your growth is key to our ongoing success—take the lead in shaping your career development, goals and future!

Job Summary:

Core function of this position is to oversee technical activities, manage engineering resources, and drive continuous improvement across power generation facilities within a specified geographic region. Position requires demonstrated leadership skills and power generation experience, providing engineering oversight of plant performance, identifying opportunities for process improvements thru assessment of ongoing operations and assisting in root cause analysis of equipment failure to ensure safe, efficient, and environmentally compliant plant operation.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership: Leading the technical operations at various plants, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient operation. Safety focused individual who can provide engineering direction to site leadership to ensure plant equipment remains available and reliable. This includes fostering technical and financial decisions which impact the overall equipment availability and reliability.
• Develop, build and maintain a working relationship with site personnel consistent with supporting open communication.

• Work effectively in a team environment as a leader, member and/or facilitator.

• Project and Work Management: Collaborating with corporate engineering, plant personnel, and external firms on the design and commissioning of complex projects. Oversee, conduct and document feasibility reviews of proposed projects. Provides a review path for all engineering, designs, and economic justification of station projects and modifications. Aid in the development of project management strategies, contract strategies and enhancements to improve project execution.
• Performance Monitoring and Improvement: Tracking plant performance parameters, coordinating testing to determine root causes of problems, and identifying process improvements to enhance commercial availability and heat rate.
• Budgeting and Financial Analysis: Supporting project budget development, managing annual budgetary requirements, and performing spend analysis and variance reporting. Assists in the development of business plans and capital/ expense budgets to support ongoing asset integrity.
• Compliance and Safety: Ensuring compliance with industry standards, safety regulations, and applicable laws and rules.
• Team Development: Providing technical support and training to junior staff, fostering strong labor-management relations, and assisting in the hiring of personnel. Conduct or help procure training as required within identified processes.
• Data and Reporting: Utilizing data systems for cost control, asset management, and financial reporting, and presenting data and analysis to executive management.
• Provide guidance in the resolution of plant O&M problems by reviewing and building preventive maintenance plans consistent with supporting safe, reliable, and environmentally compliant plant operation.
• Provide oversight in ensuring industry standard operational practices are in place.
• Assist in the development, review & revision of station technical instructions and procedures.

• Perform other duties and assignments as required.

..

Working Conditions:

• Hybrid work environment with office opportunities in either, Houston, Pittsburgh or Princeton along with NRG Plant locations in the Midwest, East and Texas.
• Open office environment and plant environment.

• Periodic travel to power plants and regional NERC meetings.

Minimum Requirements

• BS Engineering or Technical Degree
• 5 years of experience in a power, chemical or industrial plant dealing with boilers, turbines, heat exchangers, condensers, material handling equipment, compressors, fans, pumps, generators, transformers, motors, power distribution equipment and electrical protection systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• BS Engineering or Technical Degree
• 10 years of experience in a power plant, chemical plant or industrial plant dealing with boilers, turbines, heat exchangers, condensers, material handling equipment, compressors, fans, pumps, generators, transformers, motors, power distribution equipment and electrical protection systems.
• Successful candidates typically possess strong problem-solving and analytical skills, excellent written and verbal communication abilities, and a commitment to safety and continuous improvement. The role requires the ability to manage large budgets and lead cross-functional teams in a geographically diverse organization.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PI Processbook
• Basic understanding of Lock-out, Tag-out (LOTO) practices for related process equipment
   

Physical Requirements (Demand and Frequency):

• Must be able to wear required personal protection equipment (PPE) such as hard hats, safety glasses, goggles, face shields, hearing protection, respirators, fall protection harnesses, and other PPE as required.
• Duties require extensive manual dexterity in usage of computer terminal and keyboard, while sitting for extended periods of time preparing budgets, work scopes, outage schedules, and other reports as needed.
• May be required to enter Permit Entry Confined Spaces
• May be required to perform equipment inspections by climbing vertical ladders and accessing scaffolding, kneeling, bending, walking over uneven surfaces such as loose rock, open grating, up and down staircases.

The base salary range for this position is: $98,480 - $162,480* *The base salary range above represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonus, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition the position may be eligible to participate in the benefits program which include, but are not limited to, medical, vision, dental, 401K, and flexible spending accounts.    

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

Official description on file with Talent.