Treaty Oak Clean Energy

Senior Director, Technical

Treaty Oak Clean Energy

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Austin • Texas • United States

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Senior

About the role

  • Serve as a primary integration point between Engineering and Construction, ensuring a smooth and efficient transition from design completion into field execution.
  • Provide constructability input during late-stage design phases (60%, 90%, IFC), validating that designs are aligned with practical installation methods, site conditions, and sequencing strategies.
  • Collaborate with Engineering teams to incorporate execution-driven insights, field lessons learned, and Construction team into design refinement, supporting improved buildability and reduced execution risk.
  • Support the Construction team to evaluate construction sequencing, logistics planning, and means and methods to enhance efficiency, reduce cost, and improve schedule performance.
  • Identify and drive cost optimization opportunities across projects, including material utilization, equipment selection, installation methodologies, and construction sequencing.
  • Support the Engineering and Construction teams by proactively addressing design-to-field coordination gaps, RFIs, and constructability challenges that may impact schedule or cost.
  • Support Construction on risk identification and mitigation efforts, including evaluation of site access, logistics, staging, environmental constraints, and construction sequencing.
  • Coordinate closely with Engineering, Procurement and Construction teams to ensure equipment selections and vendor strategies align with installation realities and do not introduce unnecessary complexity or execution risk.
  • Participate in key design reviews, vendor evaluations, and EPC alignment discussions to ensure execution considerations are embedded early and consistently throughout project development.
  • Track, assess, and communicate risks, cost impacts, and schedule considerations to leadership, enabling informed and timely decision-making.
  • Leverage portfolio-wide lessons learned and field experience to continuously improve constructability standards, execution efficiency, and project delivery consistency.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 10+ years of experience in utility-scale solar, High Voltage, BESS or infrastructure design
  • Demonstrated experience working across both engineering coordination and construction execution for utility-scale PV and/or BESS projects
  • Strong technical understanding of: PV systems (modules, trackers, inverters, DC/AC systems), BESS systems and integration, High-voltage substations and interconnection facilities, Civil, structural, and electrical interfaces in large-scale infrastructure projects
  • Proven ability to evaluate constructability, construction sequencing, and field logistics in complex project environments
  • Experience working directly with the Construction Team, OEMs, and field teams to drive execution outcomes and resolve project challenges
  • Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to identify, evaluate, and communicate cost-saving opportunities and execution trade-offs
  • Familiarity with engineering deliverables (e.g., site layouts, single-line diagrams, technical specifications), with an emphasis on interpretation and execution alignment
  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or equivalent required
  • Emphasis in electrical power systems strongly preferred
  • Strong understanding of project risks in solar and storage, with the ability to message to internal and external shareholders
  • Understanding of permitting agency requirements and constructability concerns for utility scale solar and storage projects.
  • Multitasking, dynamic, self-motivated individual able to work in groups or independently
  • Ability to simultaneously support multiple development projects across multiple states and regions
  • Supportive, resourceful, and willing to take on new tasks
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder coordination skills, with the ability to align technical, commercial, and field perspectives.
Benefits
  • unlimited paid time off
  • paid holidays
  • cell-phone stipend
  • 401K
  • fully benefits plan for employees
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision
  • Life Insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
utility-scale solarHigh VoltageBESSPV systemsconstruction sequencingfield logisticscost optimizationengineering deliverableselectrical power systemsconstructability evaluation
Soft Skills
commercial acumenmultitaskingself-motivatedsupportiveresourcefulexcellent communicationstakeholder coordinationability to work independentlyability to work in groupsdynamic
Certifications
Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering