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Sr Operations Support Engineer - Renewable Natural Gas

NextEra Energy Resources
Houston, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 8/5/2025 CLOSED ON 9/5/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Operations Support Engineer - Renewable Natural Gas position at NextEra Energy Resources?

Requisition ID: 87845

NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale generators of electricity, leveraging all forms of energy across renewables, storage and nuclear. We offer customized energy solutions that drive economic growth, protect the environment, support communities, and help customers meet their energy needs. Ready to make a lasting impact? Join our innovative, world-class team today!

Position Specific Description

This job is responsible for performing highly skilled analytical engineering functions. Employees in this role are responsible for rigorous technical analysis to optimize asset development and evaluating all performance and upside potential for all RNG assets. This role will provide continuous monitoring of the plan unit operations to ensure safety, desired yields and production rates.

The Operations Support Engineer must demonstrate a strong aptitude in mechanical work, understands relevant regulatory requirements, capable of reading and implementing plans, equipment operating and maintenance manuals, and schematics and look for continual added performance.

Ideal candidate will need to be commercially minded, detailed oriented with strong analytical abilities, and can approach projects with creativity and entrepreneurial thinking. The individual will interface with multiple organizations within and outside of the division they support. The ability to build consensus and make quick, accurate and fact-based decisions are critical to success. Experience in a matrix environment is a strong plus, as is a high tolerance for uncertainty and flexibility to deal with unanticipated deliverables and tight deadlines.

Position Specific Duties & Responsibilities

  • Identify key production drivers specific to the plant design
  • Evaluate and rank opportunities for optimization
  • Prepare process simulation for the plant unit operation and update on a routine basis to optimize plant operation
  • Forecast/analyze current production trends, and proactively recommend productivity improvements based on analytical data and optimized measures
  • Monitor site feedstock and operating data to provide optimized solutions for improvements
  • Interact/supervise/manage vendors and/or sub-contractors to assist with operating, monitoring, and maintenaning the plants
  • Review SOP and make recommendations to optimize plant operations to meet established KPI’s.
  • Proactively work with Operations Teams to optimize and increase efficiency of their gas collection systems.
  • Stay abreast of new developments, technologies and regulations impacting the LFGTE and RNG industries

Modeling Software application abilities preferred i.e.: Aspen HYSYS / ProMax, Unisim, Visual Basic

Job Overview

Employees in this role have responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing, and coordinating assignments. This involves exploration of subject area, definition of scope, selection of areas for investigation, and development of novel concepts.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

  • Plans and develops engineering projects concerned with unique or controversial complexities which have important impact on major company programs
  • Acts as technical liaison to individuals within and outside the organization with responsibility to act independently regarding technical matters pertaining to individual's field
  • Completes assignments given in broad terms concerning general objectives and limitations
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's - Engineering
  • Experience:5 years

Preferred Qualifications

  • Supervisor/Management Experience:0 years

NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more.

Employee Group: Exempt

Employee Type: Full Time

Job Category: Engineering

Organization: NextEra Energy Pipeline Services, 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 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.

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