PROPWR Principal Engineer

Job Description

The Principal Engineer serves as the senior technical leader for PROPWR’s Power Generation Division, responsible for driving the engineering vision, technical excellence, and operational reliability across the organization’s power generation systems, electrical infrastructure, microgrid solutions, and related equipment. This is primarily a role of technical leadership and oversight. The Principal Engineer provides direction, mentorship, and subject-matter expertise to the broader engineering organization rather than executing hands‑on engineering work directly.

The Principal Engineer will lead and develop the engineering team while establishing scalable processes, standards, procedures, and best practices that support PROPWR’s continued growth. This individual will serve as the technical authority for power systems engineering, system integration, and field deployment, while working closely with Project Execution, Commercial, HSE, Supply Chain, and Executive Leadership to ensure safe, reliable, and profitable outcomes.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high‑performing engineering team supporting PROPWR’s power generation projects.
• Establish and maintain engineering standards, procedures, governance, and technical best practices across the organization.
• Build a culture of safety, accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Serve as the senior technical advisor to executive leadership regarding engineering strategy, technology investments, and system performance.
• Conduct performance management, talent development, hiring, coaching, and career progression for engineering personnel.
• Own the technical direction of PROPWR’s full system, including generators, turbines, electrical distribution systems, switch gear, transformers, controls, and balance‑of‑plant equipment.
• Serve as the subject matter expert across electrical engineering; medium‑and‑low-voltage systems; protection and control; microgrid and plant controls; remote monitoring and asset management; and system integration and commissioning.
• Lead engineering reviews, design evaluations, system architecture decisions, and technical risk assessments.
• Drive technology advancement initiatives that improve equipment reliability, efficiency, safety, and customer value.
• Oversee site acceptance testing (SAT), commissioning, and performance validation.
• Review and approve control logic, protection schemes, interconnection methods, and operating philosophies.
• Provide technical oversight for troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective action implementation.
• Revamp and optimize engineering processes, documentation systems, SOPs, and workflows.
• Provide direction, guidance, and oversight for equipment SOPs, troubleshooting guides, technical manuals, and testing, integration, commissioning, and training documentation.
• Establish engineering KPIs and performance metrics to drive continuous improvement.
• Lead initiatives that transition maintenance programs toward predictive and condition‑based maintenance practices.
• Evaluate, qualify, and manage vendor, supplier, OEM, and technology‑partner relationships to ensure alignment with engineering standards and project requirements.
• Lead technical reviews of new equipment, controls, and power system solutions.
• Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, distributed generation solutions, electrification trends, and remote operations capabilities.
• Partner with Operations leadership to improve installation, startup, and maintenance practices, and participate in field investigations and root cause analyses to drive reliability improvements.
• Support major deployments, customer projects, and commissioning activities as required.
• Serve as the…