Coal Biomass Engineer

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a Staff Engineer (Coal/Biomass) serves as a senior-level technical expert within Dominion Energy’s Power Generation Operations Support Team. This individual provides engineering leadership and subject matter expertise supporting coal and biomass generating assets across the fleet. The role is responsible for supporting boiler operations, fuel handling systems, air pollution control equipment, ash handling, and waste management systems while partnering closely with plant operations, maintenance, fuel procurement, energy supply, and strategic planning teams.

The position requires advanced technical knowledge of solid fuel combustion, emissions control technologies, power generation operations, and project execution. The Staff Engineer will lead complex technical evaluations, provide strategic guidance on fuel quality and procurement, engage with equipment manufacturers and industry suppliers, and develop innovative solutions to improve operational performance, reliability, and regulatory compliance. Travel to power generation facilities is required as needed.

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• Possess a 4-year Engineering degree from an ABET accredited Engineering program based on the year that the Engineering program was accredited by ABET, or
• Possess a 4-year Engineering degree from an institution outside of the U.S. which is accredited through the country's own Engineering accrediting body under the Washington Accord as a full signatory, and is a degree that was recognized by the country's accrediting body on or after the date that full signatory status was achieved, or
• Possess a 4-year degree in Engineering (non-ABET accredited), Physics, Chemistry, Math or Engineering Technology and a post-graduate Engineering degree from an institution where the undergraduate degree in the same Engineering discipline is ABET-accredited based on the year the Engineering program was accredited by ABET, or
• Holds or has previously held a valid U.S. Professional Engineer license.

• 8+ years of relevant engineering experience (An Engineering PhD can be substituted for up to 5 years’ experience based on research engineering work on related projects approved by executive leadership.)
• Provide engineering support for the combustion of solid fuel, both coal and biomass, emphasizing on all associated Air Pollution Control (APC) equipment.
• Engage fuel procurement team and provide technical guidance during fuel contract renewal.
• Review fuel contracts, ensuring certain fuel quality specifications are met for each of the solid fuel boilers in the fleet during contract negotiations. Negotiating and setting reject limits for critical constituents in the fuel for all future solid fuel contracts.
• Provide engineering guidance on which constituents in the fuel can have a positive or negative impact on all equipment associated will fuel handling, fuel delivery, boiler combustion, boiler cleaning, ash removal, waste disposal along with the impact the fuel constituents will have on the performance of associated APC equipment for the control of NOx, Acid Gases (SO2, SO3, HCl, etc), PM, and Hg.
• Provide engineering support on the soot blowing systems for the coal and biomass boilers in the fleet.

Understanding the PJM dispatch cost calculations methodology to assist the Fuels, Energy Supply and Strategic Planning groups with their regulatory commitments.

• Provide engineering support for the current Wet FGDs, Dry Scrubbers, Hg Control systems in the fleet and be the SME if any Dry Sorbent Injection (DSI) systems are considered in the future.
• Engage with industry suppliers and manufacturers P.E. License