NRG Energy

Regional Engineering Manager

NRG Energy$100K — $130K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in Engineering or a relevant Technical Degree
  • 5-10 years in power, chemical, or industrial plants managing equipment such as boilers and turbines
  • Prior experience leading technical or O&M teams
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Proficiency in MS Office and PI Processbook

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical operations at multiple plants ensuring safety and efficiency
  • Build and maintain relationships with site personnel for effective communication
  • Collaborate on complex project design and commissioning
  • Monitor performance metrics and conduct root cause analyses for improvement
  • Manage project budgets and perform variance reporting
  • Ensure compliance with safety and regulatory standards
  • Provide technical support and training to junior staff

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Opportunities for professional development
  • Support for obtainment of industry certifications
  • Commitment to a safe workplace with ongoing safety training
  • Possibility of flexible work arrangements
Full Job Description
Job Summary:

Core function of this position is to oversee technical activities, manage engineering resources, and drive continuous improvement across power generation facilities within a specified geographic region. Position requires demonstrated leadership skills and power generation experience, providing engineering oversight of plant performance, identifying opportunities for process improvements thru assessment of ongoing operations and assisting in root cause analysis of equipment failure to ensure safe, efficient, and environmentally compliant plant operation.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
  • Technical Leadership: Leading the technical operations at various plants, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient operation. Safety focused individual who can provide engineering direction to site leadership to ensure plant equipment remains available and reliable. This includes fostering technical and financial decisions which impact the overall equipment availability and reliability.
  • Develop, build and maintain a working relationship with site personnel consistent with supporting open communication.
  • Work effectively in a team environment as a leader, member and/or facilitator.
  • Project and Work Management: Collaborating with corporate engineering, plant personnel, and external firms on the design and commissioning of complex projects. Oversee, conduct and document feasibility reviews of proposed projects. Provides a review path for all engineering, designs, and economic justification of station projects and modifications. Aid in the development of project management strategies, contract strategies and enhancements to improve project execution.
  • Performance Monitoring and Improvement: Tracking plant performance parameters, coordinating testing to determine root causes of problems, and identifying process improvements to enhance commercial availability and heat rate.
  • Budgeting and Financial Analysis: Supporting project budget development, managing annual budgetary requirements, and performing spend analysis and variance reporting. Assists in the development of business plans and capital/ expense budgets to support ongoing asset integrity.
  • Compliance and Safety: Ensuring compliance with industry standards, safety regulations, and applicable laws and rules.
  • Team Development: Providing technical support and training to junior staff, fostering strong labor-management relations, and assisting in the hiring of personnel. Conduct or help procure training as required within identified processes.
  • Data and Reporting: Utilizing data systems for cost control, asset management, and financial reporting, and presenting data and analysis to executive management.
  • Provide guidance in the resolution of plant O&M problems by reviewing and building preventive maintenance plans consistent with supporting safe, reliable, and environmentally compliant plant operation.
  • Provide oversight in ensuring industry standard operational practices are in place.
  • Assist in the development, review & revision of station technical instructions and procedures.
  • Perform other duties and assignments as required.


Working Conditions:
  • This position is a combination of work in office and industrial settings.
  • This position can require up to 75% domestic travel, primarily within a 2-3 state region.

Minimum Requirements
  • BS Engineering or Technical Degree
  • 5 years of experience in a power, chemical or industrial plant dealing with boilers, turbines, heat exchangers, condensers, material handling equipment, compressors, fans, pumps, generators, transformers, motors, power distribution equipment and electrical protection systems.
  • Previous experience overseeing technical or O&M teams (i.e. team leader or higher)
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills


Preferred Qualifications
  • BS Engineering or Technical Degree
  • 10 years of experience in a power plant, chemical plant or industrial plant dealing with boilers, turbines, heat exchangers, condensers, material handling equipment, compressors, fans, pumps, generators, transformers, motors, power distribution equipment and electrical protection systems.
  • Demonstrated leadership skills overseeing technical or O&M teams
  • Successful candidates typically possess strong problem-solving and analytical skills, excellent written and verbal communication abilities, and a commitment to safety and continuous improvement. The role requires the ability to manage large budgets and lead cross-functional teams in a geographically diverse organization.


Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
  • Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PI Processbook
  • Basic understanding of Lock-out, Tag-out (LOTO) practices for related process equipment

Physical Requirements (Demand and Frequency):
  • Must be able to wear required personal protection equipment (PPE) such as hard hats, safety glasses, goggles, face shields, hearing protection, respirators, fall protection harnesses, and other PPE as required.
  • Duties require extensive manual dexterity in usage of computer terminal and keyboard, while sitting for extended periods of time preparing budgets, work scopes, outage schedules, and other reports as needed.
  • May be required to enter Permit Entry Confined Spaces
  • May be required to perform equipment inspections by climbing vertical ladders and accessing scaffolding, kneeling, bending, walking over uneven surfaces such as loose rock, open grating, up and down staircases.


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About NRG Energy

NRG is at the forefront of changing how people think about and use energy. Whether as the largest solar power developer in the country or by giving customers the latest tools to better manage their energy use, NRG is a pioneer in developing smarter energy choices. Our diverse power generating facilities have a capacity of about 52,000 megawatts, capable of supporting almost 42 million homes. Our retail electricity providers — Reliant and Energy Plus — and thermal energy division serve nearly 3 million residential, business, commercial and industrial customers. A Fortune 250 company, NRG supports clean energy resources and technologies critical to our transition to a sustainable, low carbon society. We built the nation's first privately-funded electric vehicle charging infrastructure and continue to create new, clean energy solutions for our customers. In addition to our environmental efforts, we actively contribute to the local communities where NRG employees live and work. Since 2004, our Global Giving program has provided millions of dollars to organizations and charities that have a direct impact on the lives of the people in our communities, including food banks and those that foster self-sufficiency, improve housing and provide supplemental education to people in need. NRG has also organized special responses for victims of extreme catastrophe, such as the Haitian earthquake and the Japanese tsunami in 2010. Employee donations were tripled to maximize the contributions. NRG has won numerous awards for industry leadership and many of its nationwide econrg initiatives, which are targeted toward meeting the challenges of climate change, clean air and natural resources protection.

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Size
6,635 employees
Market Cap
$7.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$510 million
Founded
1989
5 Year Trend
+24.8%
Revenue
$9 billion
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