NextEra Energy

Principal Power Generation Engineer

NextEra Energy$112K — $135K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an ABET-accredited program or PE licensure in lieu of degree
  • 6+ years of experience in power systems engineering, protection engineering, power quality analysis, or NERC reliability compliance
  • 2+ years of experience specifically with inverter-based resources and disturbance events analysis
  • Knowledge of applicable NERC PRC reliability standards
  • Experience in developing engineering processes, analytical tools, or automation solutions
  • Familiarity with engineering analysis tools like ASPEN, CAPE, or PSCAD

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a compliance lead and technical subject matter expert for IBR performance and disturbance analysis
  • Evaluate ride-through performance using various operational data sources
  • Validate protection system and inverter settings for compliance with NERC standards
  • Support technical investigations and identify causes of generation and protection system events
  • Develop analytical tools and automate workflows to enhance event investigation processes
  • Lead fleet-wide event analysis initiatives and collaborate with various engineering teams
  • Monitor industry developments and drive continuous improvement initiatives

Benefits

  • Wide range of benefits supporting employees and their eligible family members
  • Relocation assistance, if applicable
  • Full-time employment with an exempt employee status
  • Engagement in impactful engineering programs and activities
  • Opportunities for technical leadership and innovation within renewable energy sector
Full Job Description
Requisition ID: 97237

Position Specific Description

Serve as a technical subject matter expert and compliance lead for inverter-based resource (IBR) performance, disturbance analysis, and emerging NERC PRC reliability standards affecting NextEra Energy Power Generation Division (PGD) wind, solar, and battery energy storage assets. This role supports the evaluation of ride-through performance, event investigations, and implementation of PRC-028, PRC-029, and PRC-030 requirements, while leading the development of scalable analytical processes, automation tools, and AI-assisted solutions to improve event assessment, engineering decision-making, and fleet reliability.

IBR Performance Analysis & Technical Leadership
  • Serve as a subject matter expert for inverter-based resource (IBR) performance, disturbance analysis, protection systems, and NERC standards including PRC-002, PRC-004, PRC-005, PRC-019, PRC-024, PRC-028, PRC-029, and PRC-030.
  • Evaluate ride-through performance using DFR records, COMTRADE files, inverter event logs, disturbance monitoring systems, and operational data.
  • Validate protection system, relay, inverter, and plant controller settings to support reliable operation and conformance with applicable NERC reliability requirements.
  • Support technical investigations of generation performance events, protection system events, and misoperations, including identification of causes and development of corrective actions.
  • Provide engineering guidance to operations, controls, reliability, and compliance organizations regarding IBR performance, disturbance response, and protection system performance.
  • Support implementation and continuous improvement of disturbance monitoring and data acquisition capabilities for inverter-based resources.


Automation & Digital Innovation
  • Develop analytical tools, dashboards, and automated workflows supporting event investigations and engineering assessments.
  • Lead initiatives to automate the collection, organization, retrieval, and analysis of DFR, inverter, historian, event log, and disturbance monitoring data.
  • Collaborate with engineering, data science, and software development teams to deploy AI-assisted and data-driven analytical solutions that improve investigation efficiency, consistency, and engineering decision-making.
  • Support development of future-state capabilities for centralized event data management and automated performance evaluations.


Fleet Integration & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Lead audits, compliance reviews, and technical assessments involving IBR performance and reliability standards.
  • Collaborate with renewable engineering SMEs, operations personnel, controls engineers, and compliance teams on fleet-wide event analysis initiatives.
  • Partner with internal and external stakeholders to evaluate emerging industry practices and reliability requirements for inverter-based resources.


Continuous Improvement
  • Monitor industry developments related to inverter-based resources, disturbance monitoring, grid performance, and emerging NERC reliability standards.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance reliability, operational performance, and engineering effectiveness across the renewable fleet.


Desired Qualifications
  • PE preferred
  • 2+ years of experience in power systems engineering, protection engineering, power quality analysis, or NERC reliability compliance for generation assets.
  • Knowledge of NERC PRC reliability standards applicable to generation and inverter-based resources.
  • Experience analyzing disturbance events using COMTRADE files, DFR records, oscillography, inverter event logs, relay event records, or power system monitoring data.
  • Experience developing engineering processes, analytical tools, automation solutions, or data-driven investigations.
  • Working knowledge of Python, Power BI, MS Copilot, AI-assisted development tools, or similar analytics platforms.
  • Familiarity with power system modeling, simulation, and engineering analysis tools such as ASPEN, CAPE, PSS4, PSLF, PSCAD, or equivalent platforms.


Job Overview

Employees in this role make decisions and recommendations having significant impact on extensive engineering and related activities for the company. This position negotiates critical and controversial issues with top level engineers and officers of other organizations and companies.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

  • Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in planning, organizing, and guiding extensive engineering programs and activities
  • Manages one or more programs of complex diversity and scope which are of critical importance to overall company objectives
  • Acts as a subject matter expert
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned


Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's - Engineering from an ABET-accredited engineering program or PE licensure in lieu of an ABET-accredited degree
  • Experience: 6+ years


Preferred Qualifications
• None

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

Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Engineering
Organization: NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

About NextEra Energy

A growth-oriented limited partnership formed by NextEra Energy, Inc., NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP) acquires, manages, and owns contracted clean energy projects with stable, long-term cash flows. They own interests in wind and solar projects in North America, as well as natural gas infrastructure assets in Texas. Renewable energy projects are fully contracted, use technology, and are located in regions that are favorable for generating energy from the wind and sun. The seven natural gas pipelines in the portfolio are all strategically located, serving power producers and municipalities in South Texas, processing plants and producers in the Eagle Ford Shale, and commercial and industrial customers in the Houston area. The NET Mexico Pipeline, the largest pipeline in the portfolio, provides a critical source of natural gas transportation for low-cost, U.S.-sourced shale gas to Mexico.

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Size
15,000 employees
Market Cap
$6.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$51 million
Founded
2014
5 Year Trend
+4.9%
Revenue
$917 million
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