Engineering Leader: Geothermal Projects & Operations

BHE Renewables; Calipatria (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

BHE Renewables’ Imperial Valley, CA location seeks a Director of Engineering to lead engineering projects ensuring safe, efficient, and economical operations across geothermal facilities. You will implement engineering practices, supervise staff, and collaborate with operations, maintenance, and technical teams.

Responsibilities include planning projects, ensuring regulatory compliance, optimizing plant performance, managing budgets and driving improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• Ten years of engineering experience, preferably in energy.
• Leadership and management experience required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Must have a valid US driver’s license.

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop and coordinate engineering projects based on project requirements; prepare preliminary and final plans, project specifications, feasibility studies on proposed projects, economic reports and cost estimates.
• Adhere to all inside and outside regulatory compliance requirements.
• Adhere to, support and enforce all safety and environmental rules, policies and procedures.
• Review project design for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements and applicable codes and specifications.
• Coordinate activities concerned with technical developments, scheduling and resolving engineering design and test problems.
• Develop and implement detailed strategic and tactical plans and budgets, control expenditures within limitation of project budgets.
• Recommend and implement plant and equipment performance testing related to the reliability, operability and efficiency of the specific equipment and its relationship to plant operations.
• Perform administrative activities necessary for the effective management of the department, including employee safety, selection and development of employees, salary administration, budget administration, employee counseling and motivation, organization goals and objectives, and planning, organizing, integrating, measuring, and reporting the work performed within the department.
• Responds to operating needs. Provides direction for plants and equipment performance evaluation, optimizing resource use and maximizing reliable power generation and revenue from the regions.
• Directs the plant engineers in monitoring plant efficiencies and process adjustments and troubleshooting all process-related issues to maximize revenues and plan capacity.
• Direct and trains the plant engineers in maximizing the efficiencies of the processes for the plants for which they are responsible. Works closely with the operations site managers in assisting in identification of process issues and the correction of the processes to maximize efficiency of the plants.
• Provides services to operations and maintenance as required. Maintains close contact with these groups to evaluate plant equipment performance, recommend design/specification improvements, trend project performance, technology upgrades and keeps up to date with the technologies utilized in the processes and research those needed for special projects.
• Develop conceptual designs along with the plant engineers, project engineers and site managers for plant improvement projects. Works with engineering and/or resource and maintenance to implement improvements.
• Perform any additional responsibilities as requested or assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Budget management

Project management

Team development

Communication

Regulatory compliance

Safety awareness

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Professional certification or advanced degree preferred

Job description

BHE Renewables’ Imperial Valley, CA location seeks a Director of Engineering to lead engineering projects ensuring safe, efficient, and economical operations across geothermal facilities. You will implement engineering practices, supervise staff, and collaborate with operations, maintenance, and technical teams.

Responsibilities include planning projects, ensuring regulatory compliance, optimizing plant performance, managing budgets and driving improvements.