Principal Mechanical Engineer

The role

The Principal Mechanical Engineer leads the design, integration, and delivery of the gas-to-nuclear bridge. This role provides technical leadership across the full project lifecycle from FEED through commissioning and startup.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain the technical basis for utility-scale gas generation projects.
• Lead FEED and detailed design reviews and approve key engineering deliverables.
• Perform and review plant performance studies.
• Drive resolution of complex technical issues and design conflicts.
• Support development of project scopes, cost estimates, schedules, and execution plans.
• Lead technical evaluations for major equipment procurements.
• Coordinate technical interfaces across multidisciplinary teams.
• Support construction, commissioning, startup, and performance testing activities.
• Ensure compliance with applicable codes, standards, regulations, and company requirements.
• Develop and maintain engineering standards, specifications, and design practices.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering and project delivery experience in simple-cycle or combined-cycle natural gas power generation.
• Experience leading projects through the full lifecycle including concept development, FEED, detailed design, construction, commissioning, startup, and operational handover.
• Strong technical foundation in power generation systems including combustion turbines, heat recovery systems, balance-of-plant equipment, utility systems, and plant integration.
• Working knowledge of thermodynamics, heat transfer, hydraulics, rotating equipment, piping systems, instrumentation and controls, and plant performance analysis.
• Experience developing, reviewing, and validating plant performance models using industry-standard software such as THERMOFLEX, GateCycle, GT PRO, or equivalent tools.
• Ability to review, comment on, and approve engineering deliverables, drawings, specifications, calculations, and contractor design packages using tools such as Bluebeam and other engineering document
• Working knowledge of applicable codes, standards, and industry practices governing utility-scale power generation facilities.
• Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and managing EPC contractors, OEMs, and external engineering consultants.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

Nice to have

• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Experience with first-of-a-kind or emerging technology deployment — nuclear balance-of-plant, small modular reactors, carbon capture, hydrogen, advanced power cycles, or similar.
• Experience managing technical interfaces between EPC contractors, OEMs, regulators, utilities, and project stakeholders.
• Experience supporting field teams during construction and start-up phases.
• Familiarity with project risk management, design risk assessment, resource planning, and scenario-based decision-making.

About the company

Blue Energy is transforming how nuclear power gets built by manufacturing plants in a factory and transporting them to sites. Their mission is to make nuclear energy abundant, affordable, and repeatable at global scale.