Energy Storage Engineer IV (PE)

Energy Storage Engineer IV (PE)

Minneapolis, MN, United States

Responsibilities

• Comfortable interfacing and presenting to multiple stakeholders (e.g. customer decision makers, project teams, etc.).
• Provide technical support to personnel/cross-functional teams for proposals, estimating, procurement, and construction.
• Coordinate with other engineering disciplines, Project Managers, and Design Phase Managers to successfully deliver design projects.
• Participate in project teams that execute the design, analysis, or evaluation of assigned individual and team projects using sound engineering principles and adhering to business standards, practices, procedures, and product/program requirements.
• Begins performing lead technical engineer tasks on 1 - 3 large design projects annually across all project scopes.
• Mentor and guide other Engineering Professionals.
• Technical review, approval, and selection of equipment vendor quotes on major equipment from manufacturers with Design Phase Manager / Lead Engineers review.
• Collects and evaluates data to recommend courses of action.
• Assure proper documentation of technical data generated for the assigned projects and/or tasks consistent with engineering policies and company's QA/QC procedures.
• Performs data analysis and engineering tasks, calculations and studies to develop preliminary and detailed designs for completion of large and small projects.
• Developing technical specifications, providing direction and guidance to drafters and designers, directing the flow of drafting and designer duties, insuring design schedules are met, including regularly providing project status updates to project engineer.

Qualifications

Education and Required Skills:

• Graduate of a four-year college or university with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) or related Engineering program. Strongly prefer the degree is from a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum.
• Minimum seven years of related experience
• Professional Engineering (PE) license required
• Experienced in practices of researching engineering and design issues, evaluating alternatives, making sound recommendations, and preparing and presenting recommendations.
• Have working knowledge of or are familiar with: Project Controls software (i.e. Procore / Unifier) and Project Scheduling Software (ASTA / Primavera / MS Project), etc.
• Acquired knowledge in system integration, product adaptation, and design development for systems.
• Requires work experience acquired with an electrical background or acquired industry knowledge from time in the electrical business or electrician/construction. Preference was given for knowledge focused on power inverters and/or DC batteries/solutions.
• Requires work experience acquired with an electrical background or acquired industry knowledge from time in the electrical business or electrician/construction. Preference is given for knowledge focused in the design of power systems, substations, inverters, solar, and/or energy storage systems.
• Design optimization skills that involve technical parameters but take into account economic feedback for decisions.
• Have a working knowledge of or are familiar with software packages: CYMCAP, CDEGS, AutoCAD, Bluebeam, etc.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Microsoft Excel experience to track and analyze different components and combinations.
• Ability to travel up to 15%.