
Principal Technical Leader, Gas Turbines
Electric Power Research Institute
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The Principal Technical Leader conducts research in complex technical or scientific fields and leads gas turbine research and project work. The role provides technical guidance on outage planning, inspections, repairs, troubleshooting, and equipment reliability, while coordinating with plant personnel, manufacturers, and service providers. It also develops research opportunities, presents findings, supports member needs, and mentors junior staff.
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EPRI Charlotte Office
California Home Office
North Carolina Home Office
Full time
REQ-4168
Job Title:
Principal Technical Leader, Gas Turbines
Location:
California Home Office, EPRI Charlotte Office, North Carolina Home Office
Job Summary and Description:
Conducts research in complex, high impact technical or scientific fields.
Key Responsibilities and Requirements: -Works independently on technical activities without direct supervision. -Demonstrates responsibility for highly specialized technical objectives or problems where the relationships between cause and effect are difficult to establish and little or no precedence exists, and the use of creative and imaginative thinking is required. -Assumes responsibility for highly specialized technical objectives or problems where the relationships between cause and effect are difficult to establish and little or no precedence exists, and the use of creative and imaginative thinking is required. -Maintains familiarity with the progress and problems in assigned technical areas and support identification of gaps. -Provides high-level engineering efforts to support requirements in development and design and provides guidance to junior staff. -Provides input into configuration management and documentation for engineer related projects. -Acts as technical specialist for projects or project tasks.
Additional Requirements: -Has established relationships with primary advisors to a research area. -Works alongside EPRI sales staff in Member Services and EPRI International to support member/client needs. -Effectively communicates complex strategies and results, expressing thoughts clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing, to subject matter experts, program members and advisors. -Adjusts communication content and format to capture attention and meet the needs of the intended audience through guidelines, reports, meetings, webcasts, workshops and conferences. -Regularly communicates and coordinates work activities across programs and sectors. -May provide oversight of a project team to assure technical and financial milestones are met. -Organizes the external and interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the project/product on schedule and within budget. -Leads the planning and execution of complex project work within the technical department to meet member/client objectives; prepares and presents research reports. -Significant customer interface component with ability to lead research programs. -Manages medium level projects. -Influences project teams in the engineering aspects of the technical work. -Regularly interfacing and coordinating with national and international technical networks (e.g, manufacturers, consultants, academia and research organizations). -Leads proposal efforts and new promotional work. -Develops research or services opportunities of value to EPRI members that fit EPRI’s mission and capabilities. This will include solving customer problems, producing insights and information vital to the members, and delivering information in a manner that members and customers can and will apply. -Continues to provide guidance and mentorship to junior staff.
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field or equivalent experience required.
Additional Job Information:
We are seeking a gas turbine technical expert with deep technical knowledge and substantial hands-on power plant experience, particularly in outage management and maintenance. This role will provide technical guidance on outage planning and execution, inspection and repair strategies, troubleshooting, and equipment reliability. The ideal candidate brings practical experience with gas turbine major inspections and overhauls, component condition assessment, maintenance scope development, and coordination with plant personnel, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and service providers. A strong understanding of overall plant operations, auxiliary systems, and the interaction between maintenance decisions, plant availability, performance, and lifecycle cost is essential, along with the ability to translate complex technical issues into clear, actionable recommendations. The ideal candidate will excel at communicating complex technical information through clear, compelling writing, visually engaging presentation slides, and confident, effective verbal communication.
The salary range for this position is $0 USD to $0 USD annually.
This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on various factors, including without limitation applicant's education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant's geographic location.
This role is eligible to participate in EPRI’s annual incentive program. The amount of incentive varies and is subject to the terms and conditions of the plan.
This role is eligible to participate in EPRI’s standard employee benefit programs, which currently include the following: medical, dental, vision, 401k, STD/LTD and paid family leave, life and accident insurance, paid time off (flexible vacation, sick leave, and holiday pay).
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How this job compares
Set against the 3,983 open Technical Lead jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$188–275K/yr456 salary ranges
- US median$42–55/hr88 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 537 open Technical Lead jobs in California and 3,983 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- Technical Lead postings that state a minimum ask for 8 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 10 years (3,344 postings).
- Education
- 2,094 of the 3,983 open Technical Lead jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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