Mechanical Engineer, Power Generation

The role

This person will own rotating equipment for behind-the-meter generation including turbines, engines, and generators. They will engineer mechanical packages and support the fleet by root-causing reliability issues.

What you will do

• Own rotating equipment for behind-the-meter generation including turbines, engines, and generators.
• Engineer mechanical packages including skids, auxiliaries, vibration, and alignment requirements.
• Run factory and site acceptance including witness tests and punching packages.
• Hold vendors to their curves.
• Support the fleet by root-causing and engineering out reliability issues on rotating equipment.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in rotating equipment engineering for power generation, including gas turbines, reciprocating engines, and large pumps and compressors, from specification through factory and s
• Experience engineering rotating equipment such as gas turbines, recip engines, or large pumps and compressors.
• Experience owning equipment specifications and vendor technical evaluations.
• Experience witnessing factory acceptance tests.
• Ability to read vibration data.
• Experience root-causing rotating equipment failures in the field.
• Comfortable with regular travel of 25% or more.

Nice to have

• Gas turbine or recip package integration
• API standards fluency
• Condition monitoring systems
• Power plant commissioning

About the company

Fluidstack acquires power, designs and builds data centers, and operates them. They are focused on delivering compute infrastructure for AI.