Combustion Turbine Engineering Leader

Combustion Turbine Engineering Leader

Date : Aug 29, 2025

Location(s) : Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US, 33410

Company : NextEra Energy

Requisition ID : 88733

Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S., delivering clean, affordable, and reliable electricity to approximately 12 million Floridians. With one of the nation’s cleanest power generation fleets and top-tier reliability, we are setting new standards in the energy industry. Ready to make an impact? Join our exceptional team today and help shape the future of energy!

Position Specific Description

NextEra Energy’s Power Generation Division is looking for an Engineering Leader for the GE 7F / 7HA Combustion Turbine technology, reporting up to the Combustion Turbine Fleet Team (CTFT) manager. This Engineering Leader will oversee a team of combustion turbine engineers, of various experience levels, responsible for combustion turbine reliability, troubleshooting, technical investigations / root cause analysis issue resolutions, spare parts management, and outage planning. The Leader will be responsible for setting strategic initiatives and reporting to upper-level management on the overall performance and health of all NextEra combustion turbine assets.

Successful management of this large fleet of advanced combustion turbines requires balancing strategic overhaul and reliability goals with competing business needs. Strong relationships with the power plant management and operational teams, central maintenance organization, peer engineering fleet teams, and OEMs / contractors are essential to be successful in this role.

The Engineering Leader of the GE 7F / 7H Combustion Turbine technology will own and be accountable for the following key responsibilities :

Provide technical oversight and guidance for trouble shooting and technical decision making, ensuring consistency across the GE 7F / 7H fleet, both Combined Cycle and Simple Cycle turbines.

Manage documentation and currency of Engineering Requests, Work Orders, OEM Bulletins and change management in our work management system, Maximo.

Support proactive outage planning and annual budget planning, ensuring that plans account for GE 7F / 7H fleet lessons learned.

Foster a team culture that embodies the NextEra values and promotes safety and collaboration.

Manage OEM relationship while advancing technical issues towards swift resolutions keeping long term goals in mind.

Consolidation and presentation of root cause analyses, fleet challenges, and OEM progress to senior leadership.

Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in planning, organizing, and guiding extensive engineering programs and activities

Leadership of team communication rhythms and accountability for risk assessment and technical decision making for the GE 7F / 7H combustion turbine fleet.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Experience : 10+ years combustion and / or turbomachinery engineering

Demonstrated technical leadership experience

Overnight travel may be required, but typically does not average more than 15% on an annual basis

After-hours support is expected and typically involves phone consultations and occasional call outs.

Preferred Qualifications

15+ years of combustion turbine engineering experience

Strong communications / presentation skills

Demonstrated field and / or design experience

Six Sigma certification

Complex Root Cause Analysis (RCA) experience

Job Overview

Employees in this role lead a team of engineers or technical specialists that perform engineering functions. This may include negotiating critical and controversial issues with top level engineers and officers of other organizations and companies and having responsibility for one or more programs of such diversity and scope to be of critical importance to overall company objectives.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in anticipating and solving unprecedented engineering / technical complexities, determining program objectives and requirements, organizing programs and projects
• Develops standards and guidelines for diverse technical and engineering activities
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Clickto learn more.

Employee Group : Exempt

Employee Type : Full Time

Job Category : Engineering

Organization : Florida Power & Light Company

Relocation Provided : Yes, if applicable

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