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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Electrical Engineer-Data Center-Onsite Nashville, TN - **Company:** Oracle - **Location:** Nashville, TN, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Oracle (Applications), Cloud Services, Test Scripts - **Published:** October 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://eeho.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/requisitions/preview/347483 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, or a related field. * 10years+ of extensive experience with electrical power generation, medium-voltage systems, and mission-critical or industrial electrical infrastructure. * Strong knowledge of gas turbines, reciprocating generators, diesel and natural-gas generation, alternators, generator controls, synchronization, load sharing, and paralleling switchgear. * Experience with switchgear, transformers, protective relays, power distribution, grounding, and electrical power-system studies. * Demonstrated experience delivering power infrastructure from design through construction, commissioning, and operational handover. * Ability to interpret and develop one-line diagrams, electrical schematics, protection diagrams, equipment specifications, and commissioning procedures. * Strong cross-functional coordination, technical writing, vendor-management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills. * Ability to support 24/7 critical operations, maintenance windows, and emergency events., * Experience with hyperscale or enterprise data centers, microgrids, distributed energy resources, or utility-scale generation. * Familiarity with IEEE, IEC, NFPA 70, NFPA 70E, NEC, NETA, OSHA, and relevant utility/interconnection requirements. * Experience with SEL, GE, Siemens, ABB/Hitachi Energy, Schneider Electric, Eaton, Caterpillar, Cummins, Wärtsilä, MTU/Rolls-Royce, GE Vernova, or Siemens Energy equipment. * Professional Engineer license, NETA certification, or equivalent power-systems credential. ## Description The Electrical Power Generation Engineer leads the design, installation, commissioning, and operational readiness of power-generation systems for mission-critical data centers. The engineer collaborates across teams to ensure systems are safe, reliable, maintainable, scalable, and meet availability requirements. >>This position will be full-time on-site 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 Electrical Power Generation Engineer provides technical leadership for the design input, installation, delivery, commissioning, and operational readiness of power-generation systems supporting mission-critical data center operations. The role requires extensive electrical engineering expertise with gas turbines, reciprocating generators, diesel and natural-gas generators, generator paralleling systems, switchgear, protection systems, and associated power-generation equipment. The engineer works cross-functionally with design, engineering, construction, delivery, commissioning, and operations teams from project initiation through final handover to ensure systems are safe, reliable, maintainable, scalable, and aligned with data center availability, * Serve as the electrical power-generation subject-matter expert throughout design, construction, commissioning, turnover, and operations support. * Define electrical system architecture, capacity, redundancy, protection, grounding, controls interfaces, and operational-readiness requirements. * Lead design and technical reviews for gas turbines, reciprocating generators, diesel and natural-gas generators, alternators, generator step-up transformers, generator breakers, paralleling switchgear, load banks, fuel-system electrical interfaces, and balance-of-plant equipment. * Develop and validate generator synchronization, load-sharing, paralleling, island-mode, black-start, utility-transfer, and restoration strategies. * Review electrical one-line diagrams, schematics, cable schedules, protection diagrams, equipment specifications, and vendor submittals. * Perform or review short-circuit, load-flow, arc-flash, grounding, harmonic, and protective-device coordination studies. * Coordinate electrical interfaces between generators, switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, automatic transfer switches, utility service, and data center distribution systems. * Partner with mechanical, I&C, controls, construction, delivery, commissioning, and operations teams to ensure integrated and operable infrastructure. * Provide technical oversight during construction, including field inspections, quality reviews, installation verification, change management, punch-list resolution, and issue escalation. * Develop and oversee commissioning plans for generator startup, electrical energization, relay testing, switchgear testing, load-bank testing, integrated systems testing, black-start testing, and utility-transfer testing. * Lead root-cause analysis for electrical faults, generator trips, protective-relay operations, power-quality events, failed starts, and recurring reliability issues. * Develop electrical operating procedures, maintenance strategies, emergency-response plans, spare-parts recommendations, and lifecycle replacement plans. * Ensure complete turnover documentation, including as-built drawings, relay settings, test reports, commissioning records, equipment manuals, training materials, warranty information, and asset records. * Support operations through periodic testing, outage planning, event analysis, capacity upgrades, equipment replacement, and continuous reliability improvement. * Ensure compliance with applicable electrical safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements., Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. 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