Dominion's Power Generation Engineering group seeks a Senior or Staff Engineer with steam turbine and associated power station equipment experience, in addition to field support background.
This position will be located at Dominion's Thomas Farrel Building in Richmond Virginia.
The successful candidate will be able to provide the support noted below in accordance with applicable codes and regulatory requirements for the Generation fleet and its auxiliaries.
Will provide the following corporate support to Dominion's Power Generation (non-nuclear) fleet:
- Steam Turbine Engineering Inspection and Assessments - Perform and/or coordinate assessments and inspections to recommend cost effective short-term repair and long term preventive maintenance strategies, design improvements, and major equipment component replacement short/long term corporate strategies, requiring good equipment and system troubleshooting aptitudes;
- Steam Turbine Root Cause Analysis - Lead or support root cause assessments to provide recommendations to correct/mitigate repetitive events, including cost effective maintenance and operational procedures to maintain unit capacity and efficiency;
- Planned and Forced Outage Support - Provide component troubleshooting, assessments, and repair recommendations for more complex maintenance and operational events; e.g., component damage/aging/wear, run versus repair decisions based on technical risk, troubleshooting operational issues, etc. Work integrally with Stations, Outage Planning, Project Managers, and outside suppliers (OEM, vendors, etc.);
- Engineering General Support - Includes technical studies, field assessments with station personnel, work scopes and specification development, cost estimates, contract management input, construction support, vendor vetting, vendor repair shop QC surveillance, and coordination with maintenance or contractors for repair execution. Minor and very infrequent technical assistance is provided to Dominion's Nuclear Group.
- Develop Multi-Year Short and Long-Term Maintenance Strategies - Perform annual reviews of steam turbine maintenance and operations for budget strategy and outage planning, including prioritizing repair funding on a fleet wide basis;
- Engineering and Condition Based Maintenance Assessments - Perform and assess steam turbine thermal and operational performance, vibration, rotor vibration, and rotor alignment reviews, using PI Process Book data, SAP and other tools;
- Corporate Steam Turbine Subject Matter Expert - Provide steam turbine engineering expertise for the station fleet, promoting best practices, including proactive review of applicable new technologies for the fleet.
Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience
The knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience that are required for entry into this job include the following:
Senior Engineer
- 5+ years of relevant technical engineering support experience in the maintenance and operation of non-nuclear steam turbines.
- Demonstrated skills - steam turbine operation, maintenance, material sciences, non-destructive examination (NDE) processes, and basic turbine component design;
- Required experience - with ASME Test Codes (PTC 6), component machining, turbine welding processes, and Non-Destructive Examination (NDE) methods.
- Knowledge and application of engineering theories and principles, concepts, and fundamentals.
- Requires developmental experience in a professional engineering position.
- Competency in applying engineering principles, fundamental concepts, practices and procedures requiring some evaluation, originality and/or ingenuity to achieve project objectives.
- Understands and can apply knowledge of configuration management.
- Ability to perform engineering calculations.
- Planning, organizational and project management skills.
- Ability to develop and exercise leadership skills.
- Effective decision-making skills.
- Effective oral and written communication skills (includes technical writing).
- Ability to think analytically and solve complex problems.
- Ability to interpret codes, regulations and practices.
- Equally effective working independently or in a team environment.
- Ability to process information quickly and effectively manage multiple tasks.
Staff Engineer
- 8+ years of relevant technical engineering support experience in the maintenance and operation of non-nuclear steam turbines.
- Demonstrated skills - steam turbine operation, maintenance, material sciences, non-destructive examination (NDE) processes, and basic turbine component design;
- Required experience - with ASME Test Codes (PTC 6), component machining, turbine welding processes, and Non-Destructive Examination (NDE) methods
- Full knowledge of engineering theories and principles.
- Skilled in use of advanced techniques and modification and extension of theories, precepts and practices of the field and related sciences and disciplines.
- Strong leadership skills with proven ability to serve as team project lead.
- Provide guidance to less experienced engineers.
- Strong oral and written communication skills (includes technical writing).
- Strong personal computer skills.
- Ability to think analytically and solve complex problems.
- Ability to interpret codes, regulations and practices.
- In depth knowledge of various computer applications
- Equally effective working independently or in team environment.
- Proven decision-making skills.
- Ability to process information quickly and effectively manage multiple tasks.
- Strong planning, organizational and project management skills.
Dominion Energy
120 Tredegar St
Richmond
Virginia United States
www.DominionEnergy.com


