PGD Engineering Leader
Apply now »Date: Jan 20, 2026
Location(s): Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US, 33410
Company: NextEra Energy
Requisition ID: 93017
NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!
Position Specific Description
Provide leadership, coaching, and guidance for developing production-ready software solutions for the Power Generation division.
- Focus on software for workflow automation, integration with existing software platforms, and ad-hoc rapid application solutions
- Manage direct reports who write software in a variety of programming languages (mainly C#, .NET Core Framework, Angular, and TypeScript)
- Oversee and ensure on-premises server patching, maintenance, and application health monitoring
- Support team productivity by directing work assignments that lead to the lowest time to value
- Track team productivity with project managers to allocate work across team members
- Provide leadership guidance, tools, and coaching to ensure the team is productive and aligned with organizational objectives
- Interface extensively with multiple teams across PGD to coordinate work and projects, requiring excellent organizational and communication skills
- The ideal candidate will have experience working in power generation, leadership experience, and strong written and verbal communication skills
Job Overview
Employees in this role lead a team of engineers or technical specialists that perform engineering functions. This may include negotiating critical and controversial issues with top level engineers and officers of other organizations and companies and having responsibility for one or more programs of such diversity and scope to be of critical importance to overall company objectives.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
• Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in anticipating and solving unprecedented engineering/technical complexities, determining program objectives and requirements, organizing programs and projects
• Develops standards and guidelines for diverse technical and engineering activities
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's - Engineering from an ABET-accredited engineering program
• Experience: 7+ years
Preferred Qualifications
• Certified Professional Engineer (PE)
• Six Sigma Black Belt Certified
• Six Sigma Green Belt Certified
• Master's Degree
• Six Sigma Master Black Belt
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 Resources, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
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