Senior Staff Engineer, Thermal Engineering

About Invenergy Invenergy is North America’s largest privately held developer, owner, and operator of innovative, reliable power infrastructure. Backed by 25 years of trusted execution and operational excellence, Invenergy’s end-to-end expertise provides customers with smart, scalable energy solutions across natural gas, solar, land-based wind, energy storage, transmission, and domestic manufacturing. Headquartered in Chicago, Invenergy and its affiliates have successfully developed over 220 projects totaling more than 38 gigawatts and reliably operate over 25 gigawatts of large-scale power infrastructure projects across four continents.

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invenergy.com

1,001-5,000 employees

Electric Power Generation

Chicago, IL

2001

Privately Held

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Raised $10.5B

• The Senior Staff Engineer, Thermal, reporting to the Senior Director of Thermal
• Engineering, will support Invenergy’s efforts to develop, permit, engineer,
• construct and commission new geothermal and thermal (simple and combined cycle
• combustion turbine and reciprocating engine) power generation projects
• throughout North America. This role will encompass the full project life cycle
• of project development from siting and origination through commercial operation
• of the project and will assist managing third party engineering consultants and
• contractors; preparing permit applications; specifying project configurations;
• specifying project performance, creating project specifications; preparing bids;
• evaluating bids; managing major equipment manufacturers supplying combustion
• turbines, steam turbines, heat recovery steam generators, injection pumps,
• Organic Rankine Cycle systems,; reviewing detailed engineering; construction
• monitoring  and commissioning efforts.   A strong background in thermodynamics,
• heat transfer, and combustion turbine performance is desired.
• Invenergy follows a hybrid schedule, working in office Monday through Thursday
• and remotely on Fridays.
• Perform and review basic and detail design for power generation projects.
• technologies and project constraints.
• Lead technical efforts during the development phase and collaborate with
• other engineering and geophysicists during the reservoir modelling and
• detailed design process.
• projects.
• selection, general arrangement development, site surveying, environmental
• studies, permit applications, geotechnical investigations and others.

Required

• receive technical proposals.
• Support and lead technical efforts with OEMs.
• Review technical deliverables like P&ID, heat and mass balances, project
• design documents, equipment specifications and drawings, layouts, and
• electrical one-line drawings.
• Provide engineering oversight during project design and construction.
• Interface with contractors for resolution of technical issues.
• Assist oversight of power plant commissioning activities.
• Coordinate with internal teams to align project development and execution
• with financial and commercial objectives, including coordination of internal
• administrative workload with the Project Management team for the technical
• interface of the project, i.e., purchase orders, service orders, MSAs and ESA
• agreements for consultants.
• Establish relationships with various technical experts among stakeholders,
• utilities, RTO/ISOs.
• Understand project interfaces across multiple contractors and work packages
• and monitor performance, ensuring adherence to project requirements, budget
• and schedule.
• engineering discipline.
• 2+ years’ experience in project engineering management of large capital
• projects with a focus on geothermal power generation,  thermal power
• generation or transferable energy sector work.
• Familiarity with regulatory, siting, and environmental permitting processes
• for large-scale industrial projects.
• Knowledge and experience with project design and configuration.
• Experience with geothermal production facilities with focus on translating
• subsurface energy into usable power, emphasizing facility design, heat
• exchange, gathering systems, reinjection systems and fluid mechanics will
• have an advantage.
• Spreadsheet modeling using Microsoft Excel.
• Must have a valid US driving license.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.

Preferred

• Experience with ORCs, steam turbines for geothermal applications, production
• and injection pumps, and other heavy duty industrial rotatory equipment.
• Experience in the power generation industry, specifically thermal energy,
• with a focus on utility-scale project development.
• Oil & Gas project or reservoir engineering experience relevant to geothermal
• or conventional thermal projects.
• Proficiency in spreadsheet modeling using Microsoft Excel.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• $85,000.00 - $108,000.00 USD Annual
• Bonus: 15%
• The base pay range reflects the minimum and maximum target salary for the
• position. Invenergy considers a number of factors when determining base pay
• offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the
• candidate's experience, education and skills.
• In addition to base pay, the total annual compensation package may also include
• eligibility to participate in our bonus program(s) which are designed to reward
• individual and company performance. Your recruiter can share more about bonus
• eligibility for this position during the hiring process.
• Invenergy offers a variety of other benefits including medical, dental and
• vision insurance, 401k, paid time off, etc.

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401k
• Paid time off
• Annual bonus