BESS Project Engineer, Senior or Staff

Redwood Materials; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Redwood Materials in San Francisco, CA invites a Senior/Staff BESS Project Engineer to own end-to-end delivery of battery energy storage projects. You will coordinate Business Development, Product Engineering, EPC partners, and customers across all phases from scoping to commissioning and handoff to Operations.

This role requires leadership of schedule, budget, and risk, with frequent travel to project sites and a strong emphasis on safety, quality, and meeting milestones within scope.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Program Management, Business, or a related discipline.
• Deep program management experience in battery energy storage, renewable energy, or utility-scale power infrastructure.
• Experience managing projects from scoping through commissioning and Operations and Maintenance handoff, with ownership of schedule, budget, and risk.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills, comfortable managing up, down, and across internal and external EPC, customer, and internal engineering teams.
• Familiarity with key BESS-related standards such as UL 9540, UL 9540A, UL 1973, UL 1741, IEEE, NEC (NFPA 70), NFPA 855, and IEC.
• Willingness to travel to project sites as needed.
• A Passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end project execution from requirements scoping through handoff.
• Own the integrated schedule, budget tracker, and risk register for each project.
• Serve as the primary interface between Business Development, Product Engineering, and EPC partners and customers.
• Track RFI and submittal workflows, change orders, permitting, interconnection, and all contractual deliverables.
• Partner with Product Engineering on equipment selection and BOM alignment; retain change control.
• Oversee commissioning readiness and test plan execution, and manage handoff to Operations.
• Maintain project data in PM tooling and capture lessons learned for repeatable delivery.

Skills

Project management

Scheduling

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional communication

BESS knowledge

UL standards

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Project management software

Job description

About Redwood Materials

Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling—keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.

Redwood Materials is deploying large-scale battery energy storage systems that power data centers and the grid, including North America's largest microgrid (63 MWh) for Crusoe, a stationary storage partnership with GM using new and second-life EV batteries, and a new deployment at Rivian's Normal, Illinois manufacturing plant. The Senior or Staff BESS Project Engineer joins as an early member of a new engineering team working on our Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) product line. You will own the full project lifecycle, from commercial scoping and Business Development handoff through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and a structured handoff to Operations and Maintenance, for a growing portfolio of front-of-the-meter and behind-the-meter energy storage and microgrid projects. You are the connective tissue between Business Development, Product Engineering, our internal engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) team, external EPC partners, and customers, and you drive the schedule, manage risk, and make sure every project lands on time, on budget, and to spec. The work rewards people who are comfortable operating where processes are still being built and who want to shape how Redwood delivers energy storage at scale.

Hours

Full-time, Monday – Friday, with occasional weekend or after-hours work to meet project milestones

Responsibilities will include

• Drive end-to-end project execution from requirements scoping and Business Development handoff through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and Operations and Maintenance handoff
• Own the integrated schedule, budget tracker, and risk register for each assigned project, and proactively identify and escape schedule or cost risks
• Serve as the primary interface between Business Development, Product Engineering, internal and external EPC partners, and customers across all project phases
• Track RFI and submittal workflows, change order logs, permitting, interconnection coordination, and all contractual project deliverables
• Partner with Product Engineering on equipment selection, bill of materials alignment, and technical scope definition, and retain change control over the Basis of Design across the project lifecycle
• Oversee commissioning readiness and test plan execution, and manage structured handoff documentation to Operations and Maintenance
• Maintain project data in project management tooling, provide planning inputs and deployment forecasting to leadership, and capture lessons learned into repeatable delivery templates, checklists, and execution standards

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Program Management, Business, or a related discipline
• Deep program management experience in battery energy storage, renewable energy, or utility-scale power infrastructure such as peaker plants, combined-cycle generation, and substations; Staff level reflects a broader track record leading a portfolio of projects
• Demonstrated experience managing projects from scoping through commissioning and Operations and Maintenance handoff, with ownership of schedule, budget, and risk
• Strong cross-functional communication skills, comfortable managing up, down, and across internal and external EPC, customer, and internal engineering teams
• Familiarity with key BESS-related standards such as UL 9540, UL 9540A, UL 1973, UL 1741, IEEE, NEC (NFPA 70), NFPA 855, and IEC
• Willingness to travel to project sites as needed
• A Passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!

Physical Requirements

• Climbing, standing, and stooping during project site visits
• Typing and extended computer work in an office setting

Working Conditions

• Office environment in San Francisco, CA, with regular travel to project sites
• Site visits involve varying conditions, including noise, dust, and temperature extremes at active BESS construction and commissioning sites
• Occasional weekend or after-hours work to meet project milestones
• Travel up to 25%, primarily to project sites across the U.S.

In accordance with California pay transparency laws, the salary range for this position is listed below. Actual compensation may vary based on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and skills.

$160,000 - $252,000 USD

The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

As set forth in Redwood Materials’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.