Electrical Engineer (Remote or Hybrid)

Company: NRG Energy
Location: Princeton
Posted on: January 26, 2023

Job Description:

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Job SummaryProvide 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* 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 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 and five (5) years of experience working an electrical engineering role.
* 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,
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience infossil and renewable fuel power generation. * Electrical or Mechanical Engineering degree.
* Professional Engineer's license.* Experience with SAP, AutoCad and ETAP.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, climbing and walking. Constant
Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicants experience or skills.If you reside in or intend to work remotely from California, Colorado or New York City you may contact Careers@nrg.com for compensation information related to this position and other information as required by applicable law. Please include the job title in your request.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.

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