Performance Engineer - Electric Generation

About the role

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 SCADA and Asset Management software data, develops expected 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 preventative 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 derates, 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.