Engineering Manager – Utility Scale Energy Projects

Frontier Power USA; Waterbury (VT); Presencial; USD 120.000 - 160.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Frontier Power USA is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to build and lead the team delivering power generation, energy storage, data-center, and grid-infrastructure projects.

Reporting to the CTO, this role owns engineering execution, team capacity, technical quality, standards, and project delivery while remaining directly involved in architecture, integration, design reviews, testing, and commissioning.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, controls, power systems, or related field.
• 10+ years in power systems, generation, energy storage, substations, automation, or EPC environments.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams, including hiring, resource planning, coaching, and performance management.
• Willingness to travel ~20% and operate onsite or hybrid.

Responsabilidades

• Build, lead, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team across power systems, controls, electrical design, and system integration.
• Own engineering scope, quality, schedule, budget, and technical risk across the project portfolio.
• Remain hands-on in architecture, design reviews, troubleshooting, testing, and commissioning.
• Coordinate with project management, procurement, commercial, operations, customers, utilities, EPCs, and OEMs.

Conocimientos

Power systems

Controls engineering

Team leadership

System integration

Architecture reviews

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Herramientas

EMS/SCADA

Medium-voltage equipment

Descripción del empleo

Frontier Power USA is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to build and lead the team delivering power generation, energy storage, data-center, and grid-infrastructure projects. Reporting to the CTO, this role owns engineering execution, team capacity, technical quality, standards, and project delivery while remaining directly involved in architecture, integration, design reviews, testing, and commissioning.

What You Will DoTeam & Technical Leadership

• Build, lead, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team across power systems, controls, electrical design, and system integration.
• Set priorities, assign resources, support hiring, and create a culture of technical ownership, safety, documentation, and field accountability.
• Remain hands-on in architecture, design reviews, troubleshooting, testing, and commissioning.
• Establish reusable, OEM-agnostic standards, templates, controls modules, and engineering practices.

Project Execution

• Own engineering scope, quality, schedule, budget, and technical risk across the project portfolio.
• Lead integration of generation, BESS, medium-voltage equipment, protection, metering, EMS, SCADA, communications, and balance-of-plant systems.
• Review and approve one-lines, specifications, control narratives, interfaces, calculations, test plans, and commissioning procedures.
• Coordinate with project management, procurement, commercial, operations, customers, utilities, EPCs, and OEMs.
• Support proposals, supplier selection, FAT, SAT, commissioning, operational handoff, and resolution of critical field issues.

What We Are Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, controls, power systems, or a related field.
• Ten or more years in power systems, generation, energy storage, substations, automation, or EPC environments.
• Three or more years leading engineering teams, including hiring, resource planning, coaching, and performance management.
• Demonstrated success delivering complex energy projects from design through commissioning.
• Strong knowledge of system integration, medium-voltage equipment, protection, controls, EMS/SCADA, and OEM interfaces.
• Ability to make sound technical and business decisions under schedule pressure and communicate trade-offs clearly.
• Onsite (preferred) or Hybrid. Willingness to travel approximately 20%.

Preferred Qualifications

• PE license or advanced engineering degree.
• Hands-on experience with controls, EMS/SCADA, industrial communications, protection, or power-system design.
• Experience building a new engineering function or scaling standards across multiple projects.
• Familiarity with utility interconnection, applicable IEEE/NFPA/UL requirements, and industrial cybersecurity.

Why Join Frontier Power USA

This is an opportunity to build Frontier Power USA’s engineering organization from the ground up while remaining close to the technology, customers, suppliers, and field execution.

Frontier Power USA is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.