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Careers at Calpine
Facility
Power operations is the heart of our business. We operate facilities across the nation with concentrations in Texas, California and the Northeast. Career opportunities include:
- Operator technicians ensure our facilities are online and running as needed.
- Facility maintenance technicians and Instrumentation, Controls and Electrical (IC&E) System technicians play vital roles in proactively monitoring and managing maintenance needs and upgrades.
- Engineers headquartered at our Outage Services facility in Pasadena, Texas, work across the fleet to ensure existing facilities run smoothly, help manage our yearly maintenance activities and participate in new construction.
Commercial
Based primarily in Houston with some team members in California and Pennsylvania, Calpine’s Commercial group initiates and fosters strong customer relationships in our core markets, optimizes the value of our power generation assets and analyzes trends and key data for forecasting and planning.
Explore opportunities with the following groups:
- Commercial operations floor staff make vital, minute-to-minute decisions about our business by protecting and enhancing the expected value of Calpine’s portfolio.
- Commercial analysts provide quantitative insight on market fundamentals and support commercial and facility operations activity throughout our fleet.
- Origination and Development team members identify strategic opportunities in each of our regions to develop the future of our business.
Corporate
We employ more than 600 corporate staff at our Houston headquarters, our Fleet Solutions facility and regional offices in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and Walnut Creek, California.
Corporate career opportunities include positions in the following departments:
- Accounts Payable
- Asset Management
- Commodity Accounting
- Corporate Accounting
- Corporate Communications
- Corporate Insurance
- Finance and Treasury
- Government and Regulatory Affairs
- Human Resources
- Internal Audit
- Investor Relations and Financial Planning
- Legal Services
- Payroll
- Plant Accounting
- Regulatory Compliance
- Renewables Development
- Risk Management
- SEC Reporting and Technical Accounting
Retail
From coast to coast, our retail businesses serve a variety of customers in deregulated power markets.
- Based in San Diego, California, Calpine Energy Solutions serves commercial and industrial customers on the West Coast, in Texas and in the Northeast. This team provides value-added products and services that enable sophisticated customers to manage both the cost and the risk associated with large-scale power usage.
- Helping consumers make the best choices in competitive retail markets, Champion Energy Services provides award-winning service to residential customers and smaller businesses. This Houston-based retail provider sells power primarily in Texas, the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeastern U.S.
Calpine’s retail businesses offer opportunities to learn and grow your career in positions ranging from call center representative to power pricing analyst.