**Performance Test Engineer**


_This position will be in Birmingham, AL._


**Summary of Position Duties:**


This position is an engineering position in Southern Company Generation / Generating Plant Performance group. This department is responsible for field performance testing and analysis of fossil fuel fired, gas turbine / combined cycle, and nuclear power plant facilities across the Southern Company fleet. This includes plant heat rate and capacity testing, remote monitoring of plant performance, acceptance testing of new plants, and troubleshooting of efficiency issues for the overall cycle as well as individual major components such as gas turbines, steam turbines, feedwater heaters, pumps, condensers, cooling towers and other systems that have a major effect on plant performance.


The position will have a variety of work assignments and a high degree of latitude in testing, evaluating, and recommending solutions for heat rate and...