Generation Lead, Fuel-Based Generation

Required

• The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
• 10+ years of experience in fuel-based power generation, including prime mover selection, equipment specification and acceptance testing, and operating distributed generation fleets.
• You've evaluated competing prime movers from several OEMs for a real project, engines, turbines or fuel cells, and the unit you chose is running today; you can explain why the others lost.
• You've written an equipment specification and acceptance test procedure, witnessed factory and site acceptance against it, and rejected or held a unit that did not meet it.
• You've owned distributed generation in operation, in oil and gas, mining, island utilities, CHP or data centers, tracked heat rate, availability and maintenance cost unit by unit, and changed how the units were run to extend overhaul intervals or cut fuel burn.
• You've integrated fuel-based generation with inverter-based resources on the same bus or in an islanded system, and you can say exactly what the engine needs from the controller and what the controller needs from the engine.
• You've commissioned generation through first fire and load testing, and you were on site when a unit tripped on a load step and worked out why.
• You've worked across more than one generation technology or fuel, and you can explain which of your experience transfers to the next one and which does not.
• You write clearly enough that an OEM application engineer, a site technician and a CEO each get the decision they need from the same document.
• You're comfortable with regular travel: expect 25% or more, depending on business needs.
• Most of our engineering team, stakeholders, and work are based in Austin, TX, and we value working in person. We have a strong preference for Austin and run a hybrid model, but we're open to other locations for the right role and candidate.
• Bonus: Islanded or weak-grid operation with large load swings (mining, offshore, island utilities). Alternative and blended fuels (hydrogen blends, methanol, dual-fuel diesel) and electrochemical generation such as solid oxide fuel cells. Condition monitoring, predictive maintenance and emissions controls (SCR, oxidation catalysts) and their interplay with air permits.