Principal Mechanical Engineer
Skills
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What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Engineering
- 10+ years in power plant mechanical engineering EPC OEM or owner-side roles
- Proven experience with gas turbine and/or gas engine power plants
- Demonstrated experience acting as a discipline lead or technical authority
- Deep expertise in rotating equipment and thermal systems
- Strong understanding of high-temperature high-cycle duty operation
- Knowledge of mechanical reliability fatigue and vibration
- Understanding of plant availability and lifecycle cost drivers
- Familiarity with ASME API ISO and OEM standards
- Ability to set mechanical engineering direction and enforce standards across projects
- Strong engineering judgement balancing reliability cost schedule and risk
- Confident communicator with EPCs OEMs and executive stakeholders
- Comfortable in fast-moving project development environments
- Experience supporting data center power supply projects or other high-availability applications
- Exposure to engine-based generation or hybrid plant configurations
- Experience with heavy civil structural and piping design and construction
- Experience with hydrogen-ready or low-carbon power technologies
- Professional Engineer license
Nice to have
- Leadership
- Technical authority
- Cross-functional alignment
- Reliability focus
- Lifecycle mindset
- High accountability
Day to day
- Own the mechanical engineering strategy and technical governance for utility-scale gas-fired power plants across the full lifecycle
- Lead owner-side system engineering from early development and Pre-FEED through EPC execution commissioning and operations
- Define plant mechanical philosophy and review critical designs to maximize reliability availability maintainability and long-term operability