Project Engineer (Solar Utility)

Owners Rep – Project Engineer (MUST HAVE Solar Utility)

Owner Operator

Hybrid - Scottsdale, AZ or Fully Remote with 20% Travel

Company Profile:

Rapidly growing solar utility Owner Operator is actively recruiting an Owners Rep – Project Engineer to join the team! This is an immediate opening working a hybrid structure with helping oversee a utility scale project in N. Phoenix, Scottsdale office and remote work available. The growing Owner Operator provides customers with clean, low-cost electricity generated from solar and storage projects developed from their internal team.

Compensation:$120k-170k + Bonus + Full Benefits

Scope of Responsibilities:

Owner’s Project Engineer will support owner’s engineering efforts and assist development engineering efforts. This role will serve as the technical lead and primary engineering point of contact for the IPP project execution team supporting execution-phase projects developed. The role will work closely with internal departments including development, capital markets, and IPP; as well as with EPC contractors, O&M contractors (including SSS, as applicable), Independent Engineers, 3rd-party Owners’ Engineers, financing parties, and other consultants, contractors, and stakeholders as needed.

• Act as the primary technical resource to Owner representatives.
• Liaise with development engineering team, CTO, and technical asset management team to support their efforts as required. Infill for development engineering team as bandwidth allows.
• Develop and memorialize processes and procedures to perform owner’s engineering work on projects.
• Support technical reviews of EPC, O&M, energy manager, and procurement RFPs and perform associated cost/benefit analyses.
• Assist commercial and legal teams with negotiation of EPC, equipment purchase, O&M, lease, and asset management contracts.
• Lead value engineering efforts with contractors.
• Fulfill technical Owner obligations to EPC contractors, O&M contractors, asset managers, energy managers, off-takers, interconnection providers, and other counter parties.
• Manage all resources internally or externally as necessary to review designs, performance estimates, cost estimates, schedules, and other technical deliverables from contractors.
• Support quality assurance and quality control oversight of contractors.
• Prepare project update reports and presentations.
• Onsite and offsite project representation of Owner’s technical interests with internal and external stakeholders
• Assist construction-period closeout of key project contracts.
• Manage relationships with various equipment vendors, contractors, and third-party engineering firms, especially 3rd-party owners’ engineering firms.
• Provide technical input assumptions and review of project finance modeling.
• Assistance with hiring additional project staff as required.
• Assign owner’s engineering tasks and train team members to perform them independently.
• Support company continuous improvement activities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering-related discipline
• 5-15+ years related-industry experience in project engineering, development engineering, or owner’s engineering within solar utility industry
• Experience with solar and energy storage.
• Working knowledge of energy industry and project finance fundamentals
• Strong project management skills & ability to work with limited supervision.
• Self-motivated with a high level of initiative, attention to detail and accountability
• Ability to multi-task and work in a deadline driven environment.
• Proficiency in using MS Office Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint

Please contact Pete Barbour at pbarbour@h-sintl.com or Rob Jones at rjones@h-sintl.com for additional consideration.