Power Generation Engineer

NextEra Energy•Palm Beach Gardens, FL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The PGD Fossil Reliability Engineer leads reliability improvement initiatives across the company’s fossil generation fleet, with a significant emphasis on predictive analytics, condition-based maintenance, and data-driven asset management. This role identifies emerging equipment risks, predicts failures, optimizes maintenance strategies, and improves unit availability, reliability, and cost performance by developing and operationalizing predictive models using plant historian, maintenance, inspection, operational, and condition-monitoring data. The successful candidate will partner with plant engineering, operations, maintenance, information technology, data science, and leadership teams to convert asset data into actionable recommendations. Employees in this role have responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing, and coordinating assignments. This involves exploration of subject area, definition of scope, selection of areas for investigation, and development of novel concepts.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, reliability engineering, data science, or a closely related technical field.
2+ years of engineering experience in power generation, heavy industrial operations, asset management, reliability, maintenance, or equipment performance.
Experience analyzing large operational or time-series datasets.
Working knowledge of statistical modeling, anomaly detection, regression, classification, forecasting, or machine-learning methods.
Ability to translate analytical outputs into practical engineering and maintenance recommendations.
Strong technical writing, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Nice To Haves

Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional, Certified Reliability Engineer, or similar certification.
Experience with one or more of the following: Python, R, SQL, MATLAB, or similar analytical tools
Power BI, Tableau, or other visualization platforms
PI System or another industrial process historian
SAP, Maximo, or another computerized maintenance management system
Asset-performance-management or predictive-maintenance platforms
Cloud-based data and analytics environments
Experience deploying analytical models into production or operational workflows.

Responsibilities

Lead the development, validation, deployment, and continuous improvement of predictive analytics models for critical fossil generation assets.
Analyze time-series data from plant historians, control systems, maintenance systems, and condition-monitoring platforms to identify abnormal operating patterns and early indicators of equipment degradation.
Develop equipment health indicators, anomaly-detection models, failure-risk scores, and remaining-useful-life estimates.
Apply statistical, engineering, and machine-learning techniques to predict failures, reduce unplanned outages, and improve maintenance timing.
Perform data preparation, cleansing, feature engineering, trend analysis, and model validation using operational and maintenance data.
Establish appropriate model thresholds, alert logic, confidence levels, and escalation processes while minimizing false positives and non-actionable alarms.
Monitor predictive-model performance and update models as equipment conditions, operating profiles, and maintenance strategies change.
Translate analytical findings into clear equipment-risk assessments and prioritized maintenance recommendations.
Integrate predictive insights into work-management, outage-planning, and asset-management processes.
Develop dashboards and automated reporting that communicate equipment health, risk exposure, emerging failure modes, and recommended actions.
Support the development of digital twins, fleet benchmarking, and advanced asset-performance-monitoring capabilities.
Lead reliability-centered maintenance analyses for critical systems and equipment.
Develop and maintain asset criticality rankings, failure-mode libraries, equipment health strategies, and preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
Perform root-cause failure analyses for significant equipment failures, forced outages, derates, and recurring maintenance issues.
Facilitate failure modes and effects analysis, fault-tree analysis, Weibull analysis, bad-actor analysis, and other structured reliability evaluations.
Identify opportunities to transition from time-based maintenance to condition-based or risk-based maintenance.
Evaluate equipment performance and recommend design changes, operating changes, inspection strategies, or maintenance improvements.
Review maintenance history, failure patterns, inspection findings, and operational data to identify chronic reliability issues.
Provide technical support for major outages, equipment overhauls, plant modifications, and capital improvement projects.
Plans and develops engineering projects concerned with unique or controversial complexities which have important impact on major company programs
Acts as technical liaison to individuals within and outside the organization with responsibility to act independently regarding technical matters pertaining to individual's field
Completes assignments given in broad terms concerning general objectives and limitations
Performs other job-related duties as assigned.