What are the responsibilities and job description for the PGD Technical Services Specialist position at NextEra Energy Resources?
Requisition ID: 92454
NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!
Position Specific Description
Serve as the technical authority and compliance lead for several NERC PRC standards applicable to NextEra Energy Power Generation Division (PGD) assets, including Wind, Solar PV sites, and Battery energy storage systems. This role ensures protection systems, relay settings, maintenance/testing programs, and disturbance monitoring meet mandatory PRC requirements and support PGD’s reliability and audit readiness objectives.
Key Responsibilities
This job applies diversified knowledge of technical principles and practices to a broad variety of assignments and related fields. Individuals in the job use advanced techniques and modification and extension of theories, precepts, and practices in individual's field. Employees in this role devise new solutions to problems encountered. Individuals will receive guidance related largely to overall objectives, critical issues, new concepts, and policy matters and may receive technical guidance for unusual or complex problems.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Technical Specialist
Organization: NextEra Energy Resources, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
NextEra Energy and provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com , providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you. Alternatively, you may call 1-844-694-4748. Please do not use this line to inquire about your application status.
NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies. Please see our policy for more information.
NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!
Position Specific Description
Serve as the technical authority and compliance lead for several NERC PRC standards applicable to NextEra Energy Power Generation Division (PGD) assets, including Wind, Solar PV sites, and Battery energy storage systems. This role ensures protection systems, relay settings, maintenance/testing programs, and disturbance monitoring meet mandatory PRC requirements and support PGD’s reliability and audit readiness objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Governance & Compliance
- Own PGD’s PRC compliance program for standards such as PRC-002, PRC-004, PRC-005, PRC-019, PRC-024 and emerging IBR standards (PRC-028/029/030).
- Maintain audit-ready documentation (RSAWs, evidence logs) and internal controls.
- Engineering & Technical Leadership
- Validate relay settings and coordination for PGD’s Wind, Solar PV sites, and Battery energy storage systems.
- Lead mis operation investigations and corrective actions per PRC-004.
- Supports understanding of the Protection System Maintenance Program (PSMP) for relays, CT/VTs, DC supplies, and communication channels per PRC-005.
- Implement disturbance monitoring solutions for and inverter-based resources (IBR) per PRC-002/028.
- Ensure generator ride-through compliance for PGD fleet per PRC-019/024 and emerging IBR standards PRC-028/029/030
- Fleet Integration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as PGD’s liaison during audits and spot checks.
- Continuous Improvement
- Develop dashboards for PRC compliance (maintenance intervals, mis operation trends, coordination review cycles)
- Automate evidence collection and relay setting workflows where feasible.
- PE preferred.
- 2 years in protection engineering and NERC compliance for generation assets.
- Expertise in PRC standards and inverter-based resource protection requirements.
- Familiarity with tools like ASPEN/CAPE, PSSE/PSLF, and relay setting management systems.
This job applies diversified knowledge of technical principles and practices to a broad variety of assignments and related fields. Individuals in the job use advanced techniques and modification and extension of theories, precepts, and practices in individual's field. Employees in this role devise new solutions to problems encountered. Individuals will receive guidance related largely to overall objectives, critical issues, new concepts, and policy matters and may receive technical guidance for unusual or complex problems.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Provides full-time technical support to the operations and business unit personnel
- Performs system testing and documentation to critical systems during significant changes and/or upgrade
- Analyzes and identifies the root cause of - and implements comprehensive technical solutions to - complex application deficiencies and system issues
- Provides technical leadership in the functional specification, design, and implementation of new (as well as enhancements to existing) security center applications and tools
- Develops new (and improves existing) processes with goal of increasing productivity, reducing risk of system failure, promoting efficiency in work flow, and meeting or exceeding the key operational performance targets
- Establishes, documents, and maintains procedures and guidelines related to the day-to-day operational support provided to the operations and business unit personnel
- Travels to power plants for onsite troubleshooting support
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
- High School Grad / GED
- Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
- Experience: 2 years
- Supervisor/Management Experience: 0 years
- None
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Technical Specialist
Organization: NextEra Energy Resources, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
NextEra Energy and provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com , providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you. Alternatively, you may call 1-844-694-4748. Please do not use this line to inquire about your application status.
NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies. Please see our policy for more information.