Job Information
NRG Energy, Inc. Sr. Electrical Engineer in Texas
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
Provide Senior level Electrical Engineering support for safe, effective, and reliable power plant operation. This role will provide support to a combination of generation facilities including existing installations, new construction, upgrades, contract support, and site acquisitions. Engineer may be working with multiple types of power generation ranging from traditional base load fossil fuel, simple and combined cycle peaking, wind, solar, and utility scale battery systems.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities :
Provide Senior level Electrical Engineering support in power plant maintenance, operation, construction, and support.
Demonstrates good engineering judgment.
Detailed knowledge and ability to apply applicable standards including IEEE/ANSI, IEC, NEC, NFPA
Extensive experience in specifying, maintaining, troubleshooting, procuring, and managing installation of critical electrical equipment including but not limited to:
High, medium, and low voltage electrical equipment (MCC’s, switchgear, relays, breakers, cable systems etc.)
Transformers: GSU, AUX, Startup, Substation, dry-type and oil filled, and subsystems including surge arrestors, bushings, bushing monitors, DGA analysis, oil preservation systems
DC back up systems, including chargers and battery systems
Small to large Inverters, LCIs, VFDs
Able to perform and/or review engineering calculations, such as: load flow, short circuit, harmonics, equipment sizing, large motor starting, grounding, transient stability, electromagnetic transients, Arc flash analysis (ETAP), transformer sizing (GUS, AUX, SS…), protective relay settings, protection coordination, battery, and charger sizing, etc.
Ability to read, interpret, create, and revise plant drawings, creating grounding, power, single-line, three-line, and motor control drawings with a clear understanding of protective devices and coordination techniques
Acts in a lead engineer role on power generation projects
Communicates regularly with senior management and provide status updates on engineering design and project activities.
Delegate, mentor and supervise work of younger engineers, technicians, specialists, plant and operations personnel
Support and/or lead critical programs including Arc Flash, NERC, critical maintenance directives, compliance activities, and others as directed
Create man hour budgets, and schedule for projects and proposals.
Provide technical guidance, support and insight in multi-year outage forecasting, maintenance and upgrade prioritization, and budgetary development
Actively coordinate, include, provide leadership, and encourage others, maintaining a safe, collaborative, supportive, inclusive relationship with all team members, associates, clients, and contract personnel encountered in the performance of your duties.
Provide around the clock emergency support, as needed, including video and teleconferencing, emergency travel throughout the US and abroad.
Ability to be self-motivated, to seek solutions, and reach out to key stakeholders to offer support and guidance answers without being directed to do so
Typically supports multiple projects on the very complex technical challenges
Provide detailed technical support and leadership in Root Cause Analysis investigations and corrective action development.
Supports quality assurance activities, detailed work plans, human error reduction, foreign material exclusion, and change management programs.
Maintain very high standards and personal accountability and leadership regarding safety, environmental, ethical, and fiduciary responsibilities
All other duties as assigned.
Working Conditions
Open office environment when in office; ability to work in Field or in plants.
Occasional work in harsh, dirty, and loud environments, at times in extreme weather, for extended hours.
Wearing of appropriate PPE, Fall Protection, and Arc Flash clothing
Approximately 20% travel to generation facilities, support facilities, and vendor sites
Minimum Requirements
Undergraduate degree in Engineering, or related degree field
Ten (10) years of relevant experience, preferably in fossil and renewable fuel power generation.
Ability to interface, collaborate, and understand needs of the organization, customer, or colleague.
Must have excellent written and oral communication skills to effectively communicate within the organization and outside with clients.
Must have good PC skills and experience with Microsoft TEAMS, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook,
Experience with SAP, AutoCad and ETAP preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
Electrical or Mechanical Engineering degree preferred.
Professional Engineer’s license preferred.
Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Demonstrated project management, leadership, influence, and communication skills
Physical Requirements
Demand
Frequency
- Ability to work in office, plant and field environments.
Constant
- Ability to use keyboard and computer at long intervals.
Constant
- Ability to walk around plant sites and spend time outdoors standing, bending, lifting to 50lbs, and walking.
Constant
Statement
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 Human Resources.
Please Note: Salary offered will be commensurate with the successful candidate’s education and/or experience and consistent with the job location’s market pay rate.
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.