Joe Schneider
NRG Maintenance Services
Gas Turbine Specialist

Upon graduation from Oregon State University in 1978 Joe went to work for the Boeing Commercial Aircraft Company and after a few years, in 1981 he drove to Alaska to find his fortune. In Anchorage he worked for Alaska Village Electric Co-op designing diesel engine gen set installations for remote Alaskan bush villages. Subsequent to this endeavor he went to a multi-disciplined engineering and design company which specialized in commercial and industrial facilities.

In 1986 he went to Chugach Electric Cooperative serving as a design/plant engineer, maintenance, planning, and scheduling and PM supervisor; at that time Chugach Electric’s generation units consisted of GE and ABB gas turbines and two hydro plants.

Schneider has recently accepted a position with NRG Maintenance Services, located in Houston, TX where he serves as a Gas Turbine Specialist within NRG’s Maintenance Services Department. Prior to his accepting this most recent posting Schneider worked for Reliant Energy (now GenOn) since 1999, also located in the Houston, TX area.

Joe has generally served as a gas turbine engineer and worked across the US on a variety of gas turbine OEM and frame type machines from the old to the new.

Joe’s first CTOTF™ meeting was in 1995 and has been a regular participant and contributor since then. Joe served from 2009 until 2011 as Chair of the Siemens Roundtables.

Scott brings more than 40 years of combined electric utility power generation, operation, maintenance, and engineering experience with Progress Energy (formally Carolina Power & Light Company) and Colectric Partners.

At Progress Energy, Scott gained experience on GE Frame 5’s, 7EA’s, 7FA’s, Siemens V84.2’s, V84.3A’s, and Westinghouse 191’s, 251’s, 301’s, 501AA’s, 501D5A’s, and 501F’s. At Colectric Partners, he provides various combustion turbine engineering and technical services along with major component repair QA/QC services.

Prior to joining Colectric Partners, he was employed over 35 years by Progress Energy in various engineering, operations, maintenance, and management positions. His electric utility power generation experience covers fossil steam, simple cycle combustion turbines, and combined cycle combustion turbines.

Scott holds a BS degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

He has been an active CTOTF™ participant for over 3 decades, he has held several leadership positions and has recently accepted the role as Vice Chair for the Siemens (D,F&G Class) Combustion Turbine Users Roundtable.

Position Objective: To provide incremental business value to the CTOTF™ membership by facilitating communications, information, and discussion among CTOTF™ members, equipment manufacturers, and service providers for the Siemens (D,F&G Class) combustion turbines and to assist the Siemens Roundtables Chair in planning and conducting the Siemens Combustion Turbine Users Roundtables.

Position:Duties and Responsibilities

This Roundtable is provided for Member Users, to exchange information towards resolving problems, issues and concerns, pertaining to the Siemens D,F&G Classes of combustion turbines. Discussion topics for this Roundtable include: Centerline Equipment and Components, Ancillary Systems, Inlets, Exhausts, Controls and Protection, Inlet Air Conditioning and Performance Testing.