Generator Research, Technical Leader II

Generator Research, Technical Leader II

North Carolina Home Office, Remote/Home Based

• Applies knowledge of large rotating electrical machines, including generator design, manufacture, operation, inspection, testing, maintenance, repair, refurbishment, and life assessment.
• Develops and manages research addressing generator degradation, failure mechanisms, operating risks, maintenance challenges, emerging technologies, and industry research gaps.
• Applies working knowledge of excitation systems, automatic voltage regulators, generator protection, diagnostic testing, online monitoring, and condition-based maintenance.
• Understands major generator auxiliary systems, including hydrogen cooling, seal oil, stator water cooling, lubrication, bearings, bushings, and electrical and mechanical monitoring systems.
• Evaluates interactions among the generator, excitation system, auxiliary systems, prime mover, and electrical grid, including the effects of cycling and flexible operation.

• Translates member needs and industry operating experience into generator research projects, technical guidance, tools, reports, webcasts, workshops, and other practical resources.
• Develops relationships and coordinates technical activities with generator owners, utilities, manufacturers, service providers, consultants, laboratories, universities, and research organizations.
• Supports member inquiries involving generator operation, testing, maintenance, condition assessment, abnormal findings, and equipment reliability.
• Organizes and leads technical sessions at EPRI-sponsored generator workshops, user-group meetings, webcasts, and industry events, facilitating the exchange of operating experience and good practices.

• Works independently on technical activities without direct supervision.
• Regularly demonstrates responsibility for highly specialized technical objectives or problems where the relationships between cause and effect are difficult to establish and little or no precedence exists, and the use of creative and imaginative thinking is required.
• Maintains familiarity with the progress and problems in assigned technical areas.

• Has developed relationships with primary advisors to a research area.
• Provides assistance to the EPRI sales staff in Member Services and EPRI International.
• Effectively communicates strategies and results, expressing thoughts clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing, to subject matter experts, program members and advisors through guidelines, reports, meetings, webcasts, workshops and conferences.
• Regularly communicates and coordinates work activities across programs.
• May provide oversight of a project team to assure technical and financial milestones are met.
• Organizes the external and interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the project/product on schedule and within budget.
• Supports the planning and execution of complex project work within the technical department to meet member/client objectives; prepares and presents research reports.
• Manages small or medium (less complex) projects including budgets and resources without direct people management responsibilities.
• Influences project teams in the engineering aspects of the technical work.
• Increased interactions and coordination of EPRI work with national and international technical networks (e.g, manufacturers, consultants, academia and research organizations).
• Begins to lead proposal efforts and new promotional work.
• Develops research or services opportunities of value to EPRI members that fit EPRI’s mission and capabilities. This will include…