Engineer, Mechanical Engineer
Listed on 2026-08-05
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Engineering
Mechanical Engineer, Electrical Engineering, Process Engineer, Energy Engineer
Job Title
Responsible for the design, modeling, development, and testing of a machine, structure, or system. Develops functional requirements. Understands and applies standard engineering principles. Creates simulations and prototypes to evaluate preliminary designs and test how a machine, structure, or system operates. Designs and tests components, and integrates components to produce the final product. Monitors the quality of products and controls the efficiency of processes.
Evaluates a design's overall effectiveness, cost, reliability, and safety. Investigates root causes of failures to maintain quality and recommend improvements.
Project Overview, Deliverables:
Provide engineering support for capital project execution at the Fort St. Vrain power plant. Responsibilities include design reviews, maintaining design basis accountability, technical oversight for capital projects, supporting new combustion turbine projects (Units 7 &
8), reviewing technical questions, and ensuring engineering standards are met. This position is back filling an engineer on extended paternity leave.
Skills and Qualifications
- Combined cycle power plant experience
- Fossil power plant/power generation experience
- Technical design reviews
- P& (Piping and Instrumentation Diagram) review experience
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Engineering degree
- Familiarity with simple-cycle combustion turbine projects preferred/desired
- Proactive mindset
- Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
- Strong collaboration skills
- Self-directed work style
- Communication skills across cross-functional teams
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (typically Mechanical or Chemical Engineering preferred)
- Approximately 5+ years of relevant experience
- Power plant, plant engineering, reliability engineering, or industrial facility experience
- Candidates should already have familiarity with equipment and plant operations due to limited ramp-up time available.
Former Xcel Energy experience was viewed favorably.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering required.
Preferred Skills- Reliability engineering experience
- Plant engineering experience
- Mechanical systems expertise
- Chemical engineering background
- Power generation experience
- Simple cycle combustion turbine experience
- Mechanical design review experience involving piping, valves, and equipment specifications.
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