Salary
💰 $150,000 - $185,000 per year
About the role
- Provide engineering guidance and day-to-day supervision to the Project Development and Performance Engineering teams
- Responsible for all technical aspects of project development for utility scale solar and energy storage projects
- Lead assessment of feasibility and risks of project development opportunities
- Manage external engineering consultants and perform quality control on engineering deliverables
- Liaise with internal PMO, Project Finance and EPC teams for project maturation and handoff
- Provide engineering and technical supervision for interconnection application package development
- Review engineering data from external vendors and ensure compliance with utility interconnection requirements
- Create, review, approve and maintain drawing packages, energy production models, bills of materials, scopes of work and other technical documentation
- Manage technical needs across project development stages, coordinate external resources, perform site visits and support permitting and construction phases
- Prepare conceptual design for solar projects and perform energy generation modeling using PVSyst
- Travel up to 30% of the time and perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- A degree in Electrical Engineering (with emphasis on Power Systems), or another related engineering science
- Minimum of 5 to 7 years of professional engineering experience in the solar industry
- Relevant work experience in the design and development of power plants (in particular solar or wind power plants)
- Willingness to travel, at least 15% of the time
- Experience with AutoCAD (or equivalent)
- Experience with photovoltaic performance modeling tools (preferably PVSyst)
- Strong in Microsoft Office Suite
- Experience with Gantt charts (MS Project or equivalent)
- Knowledge of the National Electric Code
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Assertive, able to cope with pressure, a team player
- Previous experience managing projects from initial design to installation and execution, preferred
- Experience in permitting processes with local authorities having jurisdiction, preferred.