Responsibilities
1. Providing management oversight and support to project engineers during the engineering design, procurement, construction, and commissioning phases for a range of Battery Energy Storage projects, from; DC only BESS to full turnkey installations (Civil, AC/DC Electrical & Mechanical).
2. Assist in the development of equipment vendor and contractor strategies.
3. Develop standard process, procedures, documentation and tools to effectively deliver a wide range of project solutions.
4. Optimize efficiency of the existing engineering team through effective mentoring / training of junior PE’s and EIT’s.
5. Assist in the preparation of customer facing estimates and proposal submittals, along with any required project documentation.
6. Ensure that all project engineering deliverables are on schedule / on budget and communicate project status to internal and external audiences via standardized project controls systems.
7. Develop and maintain relationships with existing and potential clients to facilitate business development.
8. Become the Project Engineering BESS SME and internal engineering interface.
9. Work with applications engineers pre and post contract award to optimize customer BESS solutions, use case reviews and commercial proposal strategies and processes.
10. Assists with resource planning, and scheduling.
11. Establishes technical standards for reviews, documentation, and designs.
12. Assist in the development and the review of project design deliverables per Eos project management plans.
13. Develop engineering technical documents to support procurement (SOW, RFQ’s, specifications).
14. Identify and lead integration of design tools needed to create world class projects.
15. Provide support to Field Service Technicians when troubleshooting in field commissioning and service operations.
16. Collaborates with Product Engineering to define, refine and improve BESS systems.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Fostering Teamwork: As a team member, the ability and desire to work cooperatively with others on a team; as a team leader, the ability to demonstrate interest, skill, and success in getting groups to learn to work together.
Building Collaborative Relationships: The ability to develop, maintain, and strengthen partnerships with others inside or outside the organization who can provide information, assistance, and support. Strong spirit of collaboration and proven ability to work across diverse groups. Gives feedback thoughtfully and receives it gracefully. Comfortable with distributed decision making and empowerment.
Customer Orientation: Creates affinity with customers and demonstrates concern for satisfying external and/or internal customers. Quickly and effectively solves customer problems. Talks to customers (internal or external) to determine what they want and how satisfied they are with what they are getting.
Analytical Thinking: The ability to tackle a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequential approach. Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternatives. Weighs the costs, benefits, risks, and chances for success in decision making. Identifies many probable causes for a problem. Carefully weighs the priority of things to be done.
Forward Thinking That Can Scale: Balancing “scrappiness” and strategic thinking. The ability to anticipate the implications and consequences of situations and take appropriate action with speed and clarity in preparation for possible contingencies. Recognizes trends in the industry or marketplace and develops plans to prepare for opportunities or problems. Must be able to simultaneously focus on big picture, details, and driving results.
Personal Credibility and Confidence: Demonstrates concern for being perceived as responsible, reliable, and trustworthy. Highly self-motivated and results-driven with a can-do attitude. Does what they commit to doing.
Demonstrated success in effective engineering management at a project level – bringing in projects, on time and on budget.
Capable and willing to assist in business development.
Education and Experience
Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related field, or equivalent experience required
PE certification or equivalent (preferred), and a minimum of 5+ years of experience in all aspects of engineering management.
Minimum 10 years’ technical supervisory experience in supervising other PE’s.
Minimum 10 years managing technical capital projects worth >$10MM.
