Senior Energy Storage Project Engineer (Remote)

The Company: A leading utility scale developer and independent power producer of solar and battery storage projects is looking to expand their in-house engineering team. They recently acquired 3GW of BESS pipeline from an ESS Integrator and have a total pipeline projecting $8 Billion of Renewable Energy Investment. They are equity backed by a well-known capital management group within the energy space which gives this particular engineer a lot of room for internal growth.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Act as the primary technical resource to Owner representatives.

• Develop and memorialize processes and procedures to perform 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.
• Fulfil technical Owner obligations to EPC contractors, O&M contractors, asset managers, energy managers, offtakers, 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.
• Participate in supplier validation efforts, including technical specifications, bid evaluations and vendor submittal reviews.
• Provide technical input assumptions and review of project finance modeling.
• Support business development activities.
• Stay abreast of industry advancements and updates in relevant codes.
• Assistance with hiring additional project staff as required.
• As applicable, assign the owner's engineering tasks and train team members to perform them independently.
• Support company continuous improvement activities.

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering-related discipline. (preferably Electrical Engineering)

• 5+ years related-industry experience in project engineering, development engineering, or owner’s engineering.
• Experience with utility scale solar and energy storage projects (preferably in ERCOT market).
• Adept in SCADA and I&C systems for utility scale solar and energy storage projects.
• 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.
• Able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Proficiency in using MS Office Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
• Proficiency with PVSyst or similar.

Pertinent coding experience (Python, R, MatLab, or VBA)