Steam Turbine Fleet Engineering Manager

Requisition ID: 97438

Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S., providing reliable energy to nearly 12 million Floridians. With one of the nation’s most fuel-efficient, cost-effective power generation fleets and industry-leading reliability, we’re redefining what’s possible in energy. Want to be part of something powerful? Join our outstanding team and help shape the future of energy.

Position Specific Description

NextEra Energy’s Power Generation Division is looking for a Manager of the Steam Turbine Fleet Team (STFT) in Engineering and Operations Support Services (EOSS). This position will include responsibilities for leading daily work activities, with ownership of financial, reliability, troubleshooting, and work/outage planning. Additionally, this role will include working on strategic initiatives to reduce forced outage rates, O&M expense, and to improve overall fleet reliability and availability.

Employees in this role have broad responsibilities for the overall performance and health of all NextEra steam turbine assets. Successful management of this large fleet requires balancing strategic, financial, and reliability goals. Strong relationships with the plants, plant management, central maintenance, finance, peer engineering organizations, and OEMs/contractors are a necessity to be successful in this role.

Responsibilities

The STFT Manager will own and be accountable for the following key responsibilities:

• Responsibility for leadership of the STFT to meet or exceed stated goals and objectives.

• Build and maintain relationships with EOSS peers, plant management, OEMs, and other supporting/customer organizations.

• Provide technical oversight and guidance for trouble shooting and technical decision making, ensuring consistency across the fleet; Nuclear, Combined Cycle, Conventional, and Solar Thermal

• 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 fleet lessons learned.

• 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 combustion turbine fleet.

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

• Delivery on all relevant business goals and objectives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering

• Experience: 5 years turbomachinery engineering

• Demonstrated technical leadership experience

• Overnight travel may be required, but typically does not average more than 10% on an annual basis

• After-hours support is expected and typically involves phone consultations with actual call outs on rare occasions.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of steam turbine engineering experience

• Strong communications/presentation skills

• Demonstrated field experience Six Sigma certification