Lead Principal Mechanical Engineer - Power Generation - Data Center Infrastructure (on-site Nashville, TN)

>>This position will be full-time on-site at Oracle's offices located in Nashville, TN. Relocation assistance may be available in accordance with Oracle’s relocation policies. Candidates should expect a minimum of 25% travel, with additional travel as business needs require.<<

The Mechanical Engineer - Power Generation drives the engineering, delivery, commissioning, and operational readiness of mission-critical power-generation infrastructure for data center operations. The role requires extensive technical expertise in gas turbines, reciprocating generators, diesel and natural-gas generation, fuel systems, cooling systems, emissions equipment, and balance-of-plant mechanical systems.

Working cross-functionally from concept through delivery and operations handoff, this engineer ensures power-generation systems are safe, reliable, maintainable, scalable, and capable of meeting data center availability and resilience requirements.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the mechanical power-generation subject-matter expert throughout the full infrastructure lifecycle: design, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and operations.
• Partners with design, engineering, construction, delivery, commissioning, and operations teams to define generation-system requirements, design criteria, equipment specifications, and reliability strategies.
• Review and influence designs for onsite power generation (BTM) such as gas turbines, reciprocating generators, diesel and natural-gas generators, alternators, fuel storage and distribution, cooling, lubrication, exhaust, ventilation, emissions controls, and associated auxiliary systems.
• Establish equipment redundancy, capacity, maintainability, and operational-readiness requirements aligned with data center availability objectives.
• Evaluate OEM equipment selections, technical submittals, factory acceptance tests, vendor proposals, and construction-installation quality.
• Provide technical oversight during construction, including field inspections, installation reviews, punch-list resolution, change management, and issue escalation.
• Develop and approve commissioning plans, integrated systems-testing plans, startup procedures, load-bank tests, generator-paralleling tests, black-start tests, and utility-transfer scenarios.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of equipment failures, operating anomalies, generator trips, control-system alarms, and performance degradation.
• Develop maintenance philosophies, preventive and predictive maintenance programs, spare-parts strategies, operating procedures, and emergency-response playbooks.
• Ensure an effective handoff to operations teams, including training, documentation, as-built drawings, maintenance records, warranties, and vendor-support plans.
• Analyze operational data—including vibration, oil analysis, temperatures, pressures, fuel quality, and performance metrics—to identify risks and improve reliability.
• Support expansion planning, capacity upgrades, lifecycle replacement decisions, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate with electrical and controls engineers to ensure dependable interfaces with switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, automatic transfer switches, protection systems, and utility infrastructure.
• Ensure compliance with applicable safety, environmental, emissions, fuel-storage, and regulatory requirements.
• Manage technical relationships with equipment manufacturers, contractors, commissioning providers, and service partners.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Power Engineering, Energy Systems, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of extensive experience in industrial, utility-scale, or mission-critical power generation.
• Demonstrated expertise with gas turbines, reciprocating engine generators, diesel and natural-gas generation systems, and auxiliary mechanical equipment.
• Experience leading power-generation projects from design through commissioning and operational turnover.
• Strong knowledge of fuel systems, cooling systems, lubrication systems, exhaust systems, ventilation, emissions controls, and generator controls.
• Experience with generator synchronization, paralleling, load sharing, load-bank testing, and emergency-power system operation.
• Proven ability to work across engineering, construction, project delivery, and operations organizations.
• Strong technical writing, documentation, communication, and vendor-management skills.
• Ability to support 24/7 critical operations, including planned maintenance windows and emergency-response events.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with hyperscale or enterprise data centers, microgrids, or large-scale distributed generation.
• Professional Engineer license, CMRP, OEM turbine/generator certifications, or equivalent credentials.
• Familiarity with NFPA, ASME, OSHA, EPA/emissions, and applicable local codes.
• Experience with CMMS platforms, reliability-centered maintenance, condition-based monitoring, and asset lifecycle management.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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