Principal Technical Leader, Gas Turbines

Job Title:

Principal Technical Leader, Gas Turbines

Location:

California Home Office, EPRI Charlotte Office, North Carolina Home Office

Job Summary and

Description:

Conducts research in complex, high impact technical or scientific fields.

Key Responsibilities and Requirements:

-Works independently on technical activities without direct supervision.

-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.

-Assumes 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 and support identification of gaps.

-Provides high-level engineering efforts to support requirements in development and design and provides guidance to junior staff.

-Provides input into configuration management and documentation for engineer related projects.

-Acts as technical specialist for projects or project tasks.

Additional Requirements:

-Has established relationships with primary advisors to a research area.

-Works alongside EPRI sales staff in Member Services and EPRI International to support member/client needs.

-Effectively communicates complex strategies and results, expressing thoughts clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing, to subject matter experts, program members and advisors.

-Adjusts communication content and format to capture attention and meet the needs of the intended audience through guidelines, reports, meetings, webcasts, workshops and conferences.

-Regularly communicates and coordinates work activities across programs and sectors.

-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.

-Leads the planning and execution of complex project work within the technical department to meet member/client objectives; prepares and presents research reports.

-Significant customer interface component with ability to lead research programs.

-Manages medium level projects.

-Influences project teams in the engineering aspects of the technical work.

-Regularly interfacing and coordinating with national and international technical networks (e.g, manufacturers, consultants, academia and research organizations).

-Leads 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 solving customer problems, producing insights and information vital to the members, and delivering information in a manner that members and customers can and will apply.

-Continues to provide guidance and mentorship to junior staff.

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field or equivalent experience required.

Additional Job Information:

We are seeking a gas turbine technical expert with deep technical knowledge and substantial hands-on power plant experience, particularly in outage management and maintenance. This role will provide technical guidance on outage planning and execution, inspection and repair strategies, troubleshooting, and equipment reliability. The ideal candidate brings practical experience with gas turbine major inspections and overhauls, component condition assessment, maintenance scope development, and coordination with plant personnel, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and service…