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Date: Nov 12, 2026
Location(s): Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US, 33410
Company: NextEra Energy
Requisition ID: 98000
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
We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to direct reliability and performance engineering for a large and growing portfolio of solar and battery energy storage assets. This leader will manage a multidisciplinary team responsible for fleet reliability analytics, performance engineering, condition-based maintenance, repeat-failure prevention, and long-term component lifecycle management. The team will translate operating data and engineering insight into scalable programs that improve safety, availability, energy performance, regulatory compliance, and total cost of ownership. The manager will work across engineering, operations, asset management, and business teams to advance solutions from risk identification and investment prioritization through deployment, operational adoption, and verification of sustained results.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
The manager will set fleet reliability and performance priorities, approve applicable engineering standards, recommend investments, and establish the governance needed to measure program effectiveness and sustain results.
- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary organization that may include engineering leaders, reliability and performance engineers, data and business intelligence professionals, and regional reliability engineers. Establish priorities, decision rights, accountability, succession plans, and career-development pathways aligned with fleet and business objectives. Foster a culture of safety, operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with senior leaders to prioritize fleet reliability and performance risks, translate those risks into investment decisions, and align the resulting portfolio of initiatives with enterprise objectives.
- Own the governance and executive communication of solar and storage reliability and performance. Establish KPI definitions, targets, data-quality rules, driver analyses, corrective-action tracking, and recurring operating reviews. Present fleet performance, material risks, investment needs, and initiative progress to executive leadership to support timely, evidence-based decisions.
- Develop, implement, and scale fleet reliability programs spanning predictive analytics, condition monitoring, upstream detection, event response, repeat-failure prevention, component forecasting, preventive-maintenance optimization, seasonal readiness, and risk-based countermeasures. Establish program objectives, adoption expectations, performance measures, and feedback mechanisms to ensure these programs produce sustained fleet results.
- Set the strategy for acquiring, governing, integrating, and analyzing operational, work-management, asset, and business data. Strengthen master data, site onboarding, sensor and calculation health, data pipelines, business intelligence products, and automated decision-support tools. Champion the practical adoption of predictive analytics, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities where they improve reliability, performance, productivity, or decision quality.
- Lead the cross-functional resolution of fleet reliability and performance issues and oversee multiple complex improvement initiatives. Establish accountable owners, decision points, scope, schedules, dependencies, and escalation paths. Advance solutions from analysis and pilot deployment through operational adoption, then verify that benefits are sustained.
- Review the effectiveness, adoption, and business impact of reliability engineering programs against established KPIs. Identify performance gaps, determine root causes, and redirect resources, priorities, or countermeasures based on measured results.
- Maintain a prioritized reliability risk portfolio that documents asset- and system-level exposure, operational and financial consequences, mitigation actions, accountable owners, required investment, target dates, and closure criteria. Use the portfolio to support resource allocation, investment decisions, and executive escalation.
- Maintain a reliability engineering knowledge base that captures lessons learned, repeat-failure analyses, proven practices, industry developments, and emerging technologies for reuse across the fleet.
- Establish, approve, and maintain technical standards and guidelines for reliability and performance engineering activities.
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
The Ideal Candidate Would Have The Following
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field and at least five years of progressively responsible experience in power generation, reliability or performance engineering, operations and maintenance, asset management, data analytics, or a related technical discipline.
- Demonstrated people-leadership experience, including setting organizational priorities, coaching employees, managing performance, developing technical talent and successors, and leading teams through change.
- Ability to communicate complex reliability and performance issues clearly to technical teams, business partners, and senior leaders and to align cross-functional teams on decisions and actions.
- Demonstrated ability to apply rigorous analytical and root-cause methods to complex equipment, process, and fleet-performance problems and translate findings into practical corrective actions.
- Experience applying reliability engineering methods and tools, including root-cause analysis, failure mode and effects analysis, fault tree analysis, and reliability-centered maintenance, to equipment and fleet-level problems.
- Experience applying statistical analysis, predictive analytics, condition-monitoring data, and data-driven decision-making to equipment reliability and fleet performance.
- Experience leading complex projects or programs, including scope, schedule, budget, risk, dependency, and stakeholder management.
- Experience with operational data platforms and pipelines, including data integration, ETL, data warehousing, database querying, data-quality management, and analytical methods.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple programs simultaneously.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 20%, including travel to field asset locations.
Additional Qualifications
- Two or more years of experience managing technical professionals or multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Master’s degree in engineering, reliability, data science, business administration, or a related field.
- Certified Professional Engineer (PE)
- Six Sigma certification – Green Belt or higher.
- Project Management Professional certification.
Job Overview
Employees in this role oversee a team of technical specialists. Individuals provide managerial and technical support to a services organization that is effective in supporting the plant/site organization.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Interacts with different levels both within the business unit and the company as well as other companies to determine feasibility, cost effectiveness, reliability and quality of products and services
- Builds a high performance organization that delivers total operational excellence
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
- High School Grad / GED
- Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
- Experience:5+ years
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's - Engineering
NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members.
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Technical Specialist
Organization: NextEra Energy Resources, 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 and 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 recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, 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.
Nearest Major Market: Palm Beach
Nearest Secondary Market: Miami
Date: Nov 12, 2026
Location(s): Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US, 33410
Company: NextEra Energy
Requisition ID: 98000
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
We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to direct reliability and performance engineering for a large and growing portfolio of solar and battery energy storage assets. This leader will manage a multidisciplinary team responsible for fleet reliability analytics, performance engineering, condition-based maintenance, repeat-failure prevention, and long-term component lifecycle management. The team will translate operating data and engineering insight into scalable programs that improve safety, availability, energy performance, regulatory compliance, and total cost of ownership. The manager will work across engineering, operations, asset management, and business teams to advance solutions from risk identification and investment prioritization through deployment, operational adoption, and verification of sustained results.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
The manager will set fleet reliability and performance priorities, approve applicable engineering standards, recommend investments, and establish the governance needed to measure program effectiveness and sustain results.
- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary organization that may include engineering leaders, reliability and performance engineers, data and business intelligence professionals, and regional reliability engineers. Establish priorities, decision rights, accountability, succession plans, and career-development pathways aligned with fleet and business objectives. Foster a culture of safety, operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with senior leaders to prioritize fleet reliability and performance risks, translate those risks into investment decisions, and align the resulting portfolio of initiatives with enterprise objectives.
- Own the governance and executive communication of solar and storage reliability and performance. Establish KPI definitions, targets, data-quality rules, driver analyses, corrective-action tracking, and recurring operating reviews. Present fleet performance, material risks, investment needs, and initiative progress to executive leadership to support timely, evidence-based decisions.
- Develop, implement, and scale fleet reliability programs spanning predictive analytics, condition monitoring, upstream detection, event response, repeat-failure prevention, component forecasting, preventive-maintenance optimization, seasonal readiness, and risk-based countermeasures. Establish program objectives, adoption expectations, performance measures, and feedback mechanisms to ensure these programs produce sustained fleet results.
- Set the strategy for acquiring, governing, integrating, and analyzing operational, work-management, asset, and business data. Strengthen master data, site onboarding, sensor and calculation health, data pipelines, business intelligence products, and automated decision-support tools. Champion the practical adoption of predictive analytics, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities where they improve reliability, performance, productivity, or decision quality.
- Lead the cross-functional resolution of fleet reliability and performance issues and oversee multiple complex improvement initiatives. Establish accountable owners, decision points, scope, schedules, dependencies, and escalation paths. Advance solutions from analysis and pilot deployment through operational adoption, then verify that benefits are sustained.
- Review the effectiveness, adoption, and business impact of reliability engineering programs against established KPIs. Identify performance gaps, determine root causes, and redirect resources, priorities, or countermeasures based on measured results.
- Maintain a prioritized reliability risk portfolio that documents asset- and system-level exposure, operational and financial consequences, mitigation actions, accountable owners, required investment, target dates, and closure criteria. Use the portfolio to support resource allocation, investment decisions, and executive escalation.
- Maintain a reliability engineering knowledge base that captures lessons learned, repeat-failure analyses, proven practices, industry developments, and emerging technologies for reuse across the fleet.
- Establish, approve, and maintain technical standards and guidelines for reliability and performance engineering activities.
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
The Ideal Candidate Would Have The Following
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field and at least five years of progressively responsible experience in power generation, reliability or performance engineering, operations and maintenance, asset management, data analytics, or a related technical discipline.
- Demonstrated people-leadership experience, including setting organizational priorities, coaching employees, managing performance, developing technical talent and successors, and leading teams through change.
- Ability to communicate complex reliability and performance issues clearly to technical teams, business partners, and senior leaders and to align cross-functional teams on decisions and actions.
- Demonstrated ability to apply rigorous analytical and root-cause methods to complex equipment, process, and fleet-performance problems and translate findings into practical corrective actions.
- Experience applying reliability engineering methods and tools, including root-cause analysis, failure mode and effects analysis, fault tree analysis, and reliability-centered maintenance, to equipment and fleet-level problems.
- Experience applying statistical analysis, predictive analytics, condition-monitoring data, and data-driven decision-making to equipment reliability and fleet performance.
- Experience leading complex projects or programs, including scope, schedule, budget, risk, dependency, and stakeholder management.
- Experience with operational data platforms and pipelines, including data integration, ETL, data warehousing, database querying, data-quality management, and analytical methods.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple programs simultaneously.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 20%, including travel to field asset locations.
Additional Qualifications
- Two or more years of experience managing technical professionals or multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Master’s degree in engineering, reliability, data science, business administration, or a related field.
- Certified Professional Engineer (PE)
- Six Sigma certification – Green Belt or higher.
- Project Management Professional certification.
Job Overview
Employees in this role oversee a team of technical specialists. Individuals provide managerial and technical support to a services organization that is effective in supporting the plant/site organization.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Interacts with different levels both within the business unit and the company as well as other companies to determine feasibility, cost effectiveness, reliability and quality of products and services
- Builds a high performance organization that delivers total operational excellence
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
- High School Grad / GED
- Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
- Experience:5+ years
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's - Engineering
NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members.
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Technical Specialist
Organization: NextEra Energy Resources, 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 and 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 recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, 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.
Nearest Major Market: Palm Beach
Nearest Secondary Market: Miami
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Who's Hiring
- Cummins44
- NextEra Energy23
- Lake Superior Consulting21
- Black & Veatch19
- Interstate Companies18
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Technology & Software
- Healthcare & Medical Services
- Construction & Real Estate
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in power generation technician jobs.
- Associate degree or technical diploma in electrical, electronics, or power systems technology
- Hands-on experience maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing diesel or gas-powered generators
- Proficiency with electrical test equipment including multimeters, oscilloscopes, and thermal imaging tools
- OSHA 10 or OSHA 30 certification and demonstrated lockout-tagout compliance
- Ability to read and interpret single-line electrical diagrams, schematics, and equipment manuals
- Valid driver's license and willingness to travel to customer or field sites as needed
Tips for Your Power Generation Technician Job Search
List every relevant certification you hold
Employers filter hard on credentials like NETA certifications, OSHA 10 or 30, and state electrical licenses. Put these in a dedicated section near the top of your resume so a hiring manager spots them before reading anything else about your experience.
Quantify your equipment experience specifically
Generic phrases like 'maintained generators' won't stand out. Name the specific makes, models, and kilowatt ratings you've worked on, whether that's Caterpillar, Cummins, or Kohler units, so employers know you can hit the ground running on day one.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists power generation technician openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings that match your voltage tier
Job listings for this role often specify low-voltage, medium-voltage, or high-voltage work. Applying only to listings that match your actual hands-on experience level saves time and puts you in front of employers where your background is a genuine fit.
Prepare for a hands-on skills assessment
Many employers for this role include a practical test alongside the standard interview, covering troubleshooting a fault or demonstrating safe lockout-tagout procedures. Walk through common fault scenarios before your interview so you can explain your diagnostic process clearly and confidently.
Negotiate shift differentials, not just base pay
Power generation technician roles frequently involve rotating shifts, nights, and emergency on-call duty. When an offer arrives, ask specifically about differential rates for off-hours work and overtime structure, since these can materially change your total annual compensation.
Power Generation Technician Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most power generation technicians?
Cummins, NextEra Energy, and Lake Superior Consulting are hiring the most power generation technicians right now, with openings concentrated in Texas, Florida, and Kansas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Utilities, independent power producers, and national facilities maintenance contractors tend to post the highest volumes consistently.
How many power generation technician jobs are remote?
About 56% of power generation technician openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the hands-on nature of most roles in this field. The sub-areas most likely to offer remote or hybrid arrangements are technical support, remote monitoring and SCADA operations, and field service coordination roles that do not require daily on-site equipment work.
How do you become a power generation technician?
Most candidates start by completing an associate degree or technical certificate in electrical technology, electronics, or power systems at a community college or trade school. From there, entry-level positions or apprenticeships with utility companies or generator service contractors provide hands-on equipment experience. Earning credentials such as NETA certifications or state electrical licenses then strengthens your profile for senior and lead roles.
Can you get hired as a power generation technician with little experience?
Yes, entry-level helper and apprentice roles exist specifically for candidates still building hands-on experience. Employers in this field often prioritize a solid foundation in electrical theory, a completed technical program, and a clean safety record over years of field time. Highlighting any generator maintenance, electrical coursework, or military experience with power systems can make an entry-level application competitive.
What does the power generation technician interview process look like?
The process typically begins with a phone screen covering your equipment background and certifications, followed by an in-person or video interview with a hiring manager and sometimes a lead technician. Many employers then administer a practical skills assessment or written technical test covering fault diagnosis, electrical theory, and safety procedures before extending an offer. References and a background check usually close out the process.
Where can I find and apply to power generation technician jobs?
You can find and apply to power generation technician jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level, equipment background, and preferred location, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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