PGD Valve Engineering Leader

Requisition ID:  88859 

Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S., delivering clean, affordable, and reliable electricity to approximately 12 million Floridians. With one of the nation’s cleanest power generation fleets and top-tier reliability, we are setting new standards in the energy industry. Ready to make an impact? Join our exceptional team today and help shape the future of energy!

Position Specific Description

This job leads a team of engineers in providing assurance for the health of fossil BOP valves. Employees in this role are responsible for managing and scheduling work, ensuring asset health, overseeing the execution of continuous improvement projects, managing equipment risks, troubleshooting, and fostering an environment of communication across cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervises workload management
• Assigns work as required
• Motivates and develops employees to ensure an efficient and effective workforce
• Plans and develops engineering projects concerned with unique or controversial complexities which have important impact on major company programs including exploration of subject area, definition of scope, selection of areas for investigation and development of novel concepts
• Serve as subject matter expert (SME) for combined cycle BOP valves
• Acts as a technical liaison to individuals within and outside the organization with the responsibility to act independently regarding technical matters
• Conducts analysis and makes recommendations to improve equipment reliability across our entire fleet of fossil power plants
• Leverages technology to develop exception-based automated alerting to identify opportunities to understand fleet equipment health
• Applies knowledge of ASME standards i.e. ASME B16.34, B31.1, BPVC etc. and industry best practices
• Familiarity with metallurgy and welding techniques codes and standards
• Familiarity with valve/actuator design standards and practices, troubleshooting, and OEMs typically found within combined cycle power generating plants
• Plan, organize, and guide extensive technical programs and activities of outstanding novelty and/or importance focused primarily but not necessarily limited to valves in combined cycle operations
• Provide remote and onsite troubleshooting support, both in Florida and out of state with some overnight travel required
• Negotiate critical and controversial issues with internal management and vendor organizations.
• Maintain professional relationships with equipment and service providers and their representatives.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Mechanical Preferred)
• 7+ years of relevant experience with fossil powered generating technologies and/or industrial process facilities
• Ability to influence and negotiation across all levels of the organization

Technical:

• • Ability to quickly digest data available from disparate sources, balance competing requirements of the organization, and provide sound technical recommendations
  • Critical thinking skills to apply sound engineering judgement when available data is incomplete, incorrect, or conflicting.
  • Working knowledge of valve operations, maintenance, and common failure modes
  • General understanding of valve manufacturing, quality control, and testing processes
  • Well-versed in AMSE codes and standards for BOP equipment include but not limited to ASME BPVC, B31.1, B16.34
  • Knowledge of material selection, valve / actuator sizing, valve selection, valve design, and valve troubleshooting
  • Familiarity with common power plant NDE techniques including ultrasonic testing, dye penetrant testing, and hardness testing
  • Strong computer skills including experience with MS Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.), IBM Maximo, and Plant Data Historians i.e. PI Processbook
  • Ability to read an interpret operating plant documentation including but not limited to piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), isometrics, and installation and assembly drawings

Communication

• • Ability to concisely present and justify assumptions and calculations included in the technical analysis
  • Effective written and verbal skills; able to communicate clearly at all levels of the organization

Organization

• • Ability to deliver tangible results while managing multiple concurrent but unrelated tasks
  • Personality
  • Ability and willingness to work respectfully and effectively with teammates from all backgrounds
  • Ability and willingness to continuously learn and grow professionally
  • Exhibit resilience and tenacity needed to push seemingly intractable problems to resolution
  • Physical
  • Selected candidate may be required to support offline HRSG inspections. Employee must be able to bend, reach crawl, stoop, and walk for extended periods.
  • Capable of climbing ladders on an as needed basis

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience leading teams in achieving organizational objectives
• OEM experience in either control or isolation valve industry
• Experience with combined-cycle power plant operations and maintenance practices
• Experience with Grafana, PowerBI, and Python
• Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
• Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
• Lean Process Management
• Certified Professional Engineer (PE)