Principal Power Generation Engineer - Steam Turbine
- Location
- Palm Beach Gardens, FL · On-site
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- Full-time
- Level
- Director
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
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- 8 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- steam turbine engineering
- power generation
- thermodynamics
- mechanical engineering
- root cause analysis
- reliability engineering
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- Date: Nov 4, 2026
- Location(s): Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US, 33410
Requisition ID: 94303
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 Principal Engineer for the Steam Turbine Fleet Team (STFT) within Engineering and Operations Support Services (EOSS). This position is responsible for providing leadership and decision making for a large fleet of steam turbines across fossil and nuclear units.
The role includes ownership of complex troubleshooting efforts, fleet-wide technical standards, and strategic initiatives focused on improving reliability, reducing forced outages, and optimizing operational and maintenance costs.
The Principal Engineer partners closely with operations, maintenance, leadership, and external stakeholders to drive consistent and sustainable fleet performance improvements.The STFT Principal Engineer will own and be accountable for the following key tasks:
- Provide technical leadership and decision making for steam turbine fleet assets, ensuring consistent engineering standards and risk-informed solutions.
- Lead complex troubleshooting efforts, including root cause investigations for chronic or systemic fleet issues.
- Manage and maintain fleet engineering documentation, including Engineering Requests, Work Orders, OEM bulletins, and MOCs.
- Support strategic initiatives aimed at improving fleet reliability, availability, and cost performance.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders on outage planning, long-term asset strategy, and continuous improvement efforts.
- Leverage advanced analytics and artificial intelligence tools to evaluate equipment performance, identify emerging reliability risks, and support data-driven engineering decisions.
- Support fossil and nuclear units during planned outages, emergent events, and special steam turbine projects.
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
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's - Engineering from an ABET-accredited engineering program
- Experience: 6+ years
Preferred Qualifications
- None
Additional information
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- Employee Group: Exempt
- Employee Type: Full Time
- Job Category: Engineering
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