Principal Power Generation Engineer

NextEra

Requisition ID: 97237
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
Serve as a technical subject matter expert and compliance lead for inverter-based resource (IBR) performance, disturbance analysis, and emerging NERC PRC reliability standards affecting NextEra Energy Power Generation Division (PGD) wind, solar, and battery energy storage assets. This role supports the evaluation of ride-through performance, event investigations, and implementation of PRC-028, PRC-029, and PRC-030 requirements, while leading the development of scalable analytical processes, automation tools, and AI-assisted solutions to improve event assessment, engineering decision-making, and fleet reliability.
IBR Performance Analysis & Technical Leadership
Serve as a subject matter expert for inverter-based resource (IBR) performance, disturbance analysis, protection systems, and NERC standards including PRC-002, PRC-004, PRC-005, PRC-019, PRC-024, PRC-028, PRC-029, and PRC-030.
Evaluate ride-through performance using DFR records, COMTRADE files, inverter event logs, disturbance monitoring systems, and operational data.
Validate protection system, relay, inverter, and plant controller settings to support reliable operation and conformance with applicable NERC reliability requirements.
Support technical investigations of generation performance events, protection system events, and misoperations, including identification of causes and development of corrective actions.
Provide engineering guidance to operations, controls, reliability, and compliance organizations regarding IBR performance, disturbance response, and protection system performance.
Support implementation and continuous improvement of disturbance monitoring and data acquisition capabilities for inverter-based resources.
Automation & Digital Innovation
Develop analytical tools, dashboards, and automated workflows supporting event investigations and engineering assessments.
Lead initiatives to automate the collection, organization, retrieval, and analysis of DFR, inverter, historian, event log, and disturbance monitoring data.
Collaborate with engineering, data science, and software development teams to deploy AI-assisted and data-driven analytical solutions that improve investigation efficiency, consistency, and engineering decision-making.
Support development of future-state capabilities for centralized event data management and automated performance evaluations.
Fleet Integration & Stakeholder Engagement
Lead audits, compliance reviews, and technical assessments involving IBR performance and reliability standards.
Collaborate with renewable engineering SMEs, operations personnel, controls engineers, and compliance teams on fleet-wide event analysis initiatives.
Partner with internal and external stakeholders to evaluate emerging industry practices and reliability requirements for inverter-based resources.
Continuous Improvement
Monitor industry developments related to inverter-based resources, disturbance monitoring, grid performance, and emerging NERC reliability standards.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance reliability, operational performance, and engineering effectiveness across the renewable fleet.
Desired Qualifications
PE preferred
2+ years of experience in power systems engineering, protection engineering, power quality analysis, or NERC reliability compliance for generation assets.
Knowledge of NERC PRC reliability standards applicable to generation and inverter-based resources.
Experience analyzing disturbance events using COMTRADE files, DFR records, oscillography, inverter event logs, relay event records, or power system monitoring data.
Experience developing engineering processes, analytical tools, automation solutions, or data-driven investigations.
Working knowledge of Python, Power BI, MS Copilot, AI-assisted development tools, or similar analytics platforms.
Familiarity with power system modeling, simulation, and engineering analysis tools such as ASPEN, CAPE, PSS®E, PSLF, PSCAD, or equivalent platforms.
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
Performs other job-related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's - Engineering from an ABET-accredited engineering program or PE licensure in lieu of an ABET-accredited degree
Experience: 6+ years
Preferred Qualifications
• None
NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click to learn more.
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Engineering
Organization: NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to View email address on us.fitly.work , providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.
NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies . Please see our policy for more information.
Nearest Major Market: Palm Beach
Nearest Secondary Market: Miami
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