Jason Everett credits his 21-year stretch at Siemens Energy to the people and the relationships he’s built. “Working in field service, I've been treated with nothing but respect and treated well throughout my career. Not everybody can say that about the company they work for. I've always felt taken care of and that boils down to ‘it feels like family’.”
Unlike most other District Service Managers, Jason deals with only one customer, FPL, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, which is a clean energy company based in Juno Beach, Florida. The FPL account is one of our largest in North America, so Jason’s daily routine is quite varied. He’s usually the first call for anything service-related, troubleshooting problems as they arise. Jason participates in the conception of new projects and manages the entire process from the bid phase through the execution phase to project closeout for planned outages. He’s also responsible for dispatching his team of 10 field engineers to power plants when outages occur. “My job is a good blend of technical and management skills,” he says.
One of Jason’s most rewarding projects was in a previous role where he managed a $50M project for Duke Energy in Bartow, Florida. The team had to build a new turbine and generator set and the project took an entire year to complete, compared to the usual service time of 2-3 months. When the project was completed and the unit started up successfully, Jason felt a huge sense of accomplishment.
“It was a stressful project, but when you have a happy customer at the end of the day and the colleagues who spent so much time on a job site away from their families walk away proud, you can’t help but feel proud yourself,” Jason explains.
