Job Type:
Full-Time
Industry:
Power Generation / Energy
We are seeking a Senior Owner’s Engineer to provide technical leadership for gas turbine power generation projects from early-stage development through EPC execution, commissioning, and long-term asset optimization.
This is a highly technical, owner-side role for an experienced power-generation engineer with strong knowledge of open-cycle/simple-cycle gas turbines, balance-of-plant systems, equipment integration, EPC execution, and OEM management.
Key Responsibilities
Owner’s Engineering & Technical Leadership
- Serve as the technical lead and subject matter expert for gas turbine generation projects.
- Provide owner-side oversight of gas turbines and major auxiliary systems, including fuel gas, lubrication, hydraulics, inlet air, exhaust, cooling, emissions controls, fire protection, and black-start systems.
- Ensure equipment and plant designs support long-term reliability, availability, maintainability, and operating economics.
- Manage technical interfaces between the owner, EPC contractor, OEMs, equipment suppliers, and other project stakeholders.
Engineering & Project Development
- Establish technical requirements, equipment specifications, performance requirements, and project boundary conditions.
- Lead conceptual design, feasibility studies, technology evaluations, and project development activities.
- Review and validate engineering deliverables including PFDs, P&IDs, equipment datasheets, specifications, heat and mass balances, and performance calculations.
- Support selection and evaluation of simple-cycle, combined-cycle, CHP, and emerging power-generation configurations.
Technology & Efficiency
- Evaluate technologies that improve plant efficiency, flexibility, output, and emissions performance.
- Support assessments involving inlet air chilling, turbine power augmentation, thermal storage, intercooling, ORC, and other advanced technologies.
- Lead technical evaluations of emissions-control technologies including SCR and CO/oxidation catalysts.
- Support decarbonization initiatives, including carbon capture readiness and hydrogen blending.
- Provide technical input into CAPEX, OPEX, lifecycle economics, and business-case development.
OEM, Procurement & EPC Management
- Develop technical specifications, RFQs, bid requirements, and performance guarantees for major equipment and EPC contracts.
- Lead technical evaluations of OEM and EPC proposals.
- Manage technical deviations, change orders, warranties, and long-term service agreement interfaces.
- Provide owner-side oversight throughout engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning.
Risk, Compliance & Permitting
- Participate in HAZOP, HAZID, and other formal project risk reviews.
- Identify and mitigate technical, operational, safety, and reliability risks.
- Support air permitting, emissions modeling, and environmental compliance activities.
- Ensure projects meet applicable EPA, state/local, environmental, safety, and industry requirements.
Commissioning & Operations
- Participate in FATs, SATs, startup, commissioning, and performance testing.
- Lead resolution of technical issues involving OEMs, EPC contractors, and equipment suppliers.
- Provide ongoing engineering support to operating assets, including troubleshooting, outage planning, performance optimization, upgrades, and reliability improvements.
- Evaluate retrofit and modernization opportunities to improve efficiency, emissions performance, and long-term asset value.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- 10+ years of experience in gas turbine power generation, power project development, EPC execution, OEM engineering, or owner/operator environments.
- Strong technical knowledge of open-cycle/simple-cycle gas turbines and balance-of-plant systems.
- Experience with gas turbine auxiliaries, equipment integration, and mechanical/piping systems.
- Experience reviewing PFDs, P&IDs, equipment specifications, datasheets, and thermal/performance documentation.
- Experience with OEM and EPC contractor management.
- Knowledge of emissions-control systems and air permitting requirements.
- Experience supporting project development, procurement, commissioning, or plant operations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working for an IPP, power developer, utility, or owner/operator organization.
- Simple-cycle and/or combined-cycle project execution experience.
- Experience with HRSG/steam-cycle integration.
- Gas turbine OEM experience with companies such as GE Vernova, Siemens Energy, Mitsubishi Power, Ansaldo, or similar.
- Experience with air permitting and emissions compliance.
- Knowledge of hydrogen blending, carbon capture, power augmentation, or other decarbonization technologies.
- Field commissioning, startup, and performance testing experience.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred.
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