Performance Engineer - Electric Generation

The Performance Engineer monitors, identifies, tracks, analyzes, and reports on the performance and health of electric generation assets to maximize availability, reliability, and net energy production. This role interprets Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition(SCADA) and Asset Management software data, develops expected vs. actual performance baselines, and delivers clear, stakeholder-ready reports that quantify losses from equipment conditions, controls issues, operating constraints, environmental limits and risk management.

The Performance Engineer partners closely with Operations and Maintenance, Environmental, and Real-Time Systems to investigate and track lost production, recommend and track corrective actions, and validate results. Through trend analysis and early-failure detection, the role supports predictive and preventive maintenance planning. Recommends, evaluates, oversees and verifies performance improvement of assets and asset management software. This position is posted as a five-level job family (Associate through Senior);

placement will align with the selected candidate’s education, experience, and qualifications.

• Monitor, trend, and report generation asset performance and health to maximize availability, reliability, and net energy production.

• Analyze SCADA and asset management software data to produce stakeholder-ready reports, KPI reporting, and actionable reports.

• Develop and maintain expected vs. actual performance baselines and lost production accounting for rates, outages, dispatch & transmission constraints, equipment degradation, controls issues, and environmental constraints.

• Lead/participate in investigations of lost production, equipment degradation, controls issues and data related outages; partner with Operations and Maintenance, Environmental, and Real-Time systems to prioritize corrective actions and validate results.

• Plan and support performance, analytics and acceptance testing of SCADA data and Asset Management data as new sites reach commercial operations. Support outage planning and post-outage reviews by providing performance-based work prioritization and tracking return-to-service performance.

• Improve data quality and repeatability by validating instrument health and tag configuration, maintaining documents and calculation methods. Work with Operations and Maintenance to ensure proper planning, execution and validation of instrument calibration process.

• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.

• Crosstrain with Reliability, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers on Renewable and Conventional Generation Assets.

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering Preferredor Engineering Technology from an ABET-accredited program (degree completion by May
  30,2026).

• 0-12+months of relevant experience (including internships, co-ops, or research).

• Basic knowledge of power generation and renewableassets(wind,solar,and battery),including performance metrics and commoncauses oflostproduction.

• Basic knowledge of Microsoft
  
  Excel andWord, AutoCAD,time-seriesdata, drawings.

• Ability to research and extract information from drawings,manualsandtag lists.

• Ability to create basic reports with assistance.

• Continuously learns and builds job-related technical and professional skills through training, mentorship,officeand field work.

• Valid driver’slicense.

• Basic knowledge with a programming language (Python,SQL,C/C++, R)

• 1+ yearsrelevantexperience
• Improved performance of all duties and responsibilitiesofthe Associate…