EV & BESS Project Engineer — Permits & Design Lead

Highland Electric Fleets; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Vision, and Dental for you and

Generous Paid Time Off

401(k) with company match

EEO compliance

Job summary

Highland Electric Fleets is seeking a Project Engineer to own engineering design packages for EV charging, BESS, and edge compute across a fast-moving portfolio. You will generate design packages, coordinate with external engineering partners, and ensure compliance with NEC and AHJ requirements to deliver permit-ready designs.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will review packages, support procurement, and guide site designs from concept to Issued-for-Permit.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or 8+ years of directly related professional experience.
• 3–5+ years in project-based design management for renewable energy, EV charging infrastructure, or power grids desirable.
• 2+ years of construction project design specification development and management.
• 3+ years of managing third-party engineering consultants.
• 3+ years of creating, editing, and commenting in CAD tools, with expertise in AutoCAD.

Responsibilities

• Generate project-specific conceptual and schematic design packages.
• Review and approve project-specific conceptual, schematic, development, permit, and construction design packages.
• Solicit and respond to project-specific design inquiries from customers, consultants, contractors, utilities, and permitting authorities.
• Direct and quality-check the work of external engineering partners to keep design packages moving on an aggressive, portfolio-wide timeline.
• Ensure adherence to NEC, engineering and design specifications, and best practices.
• Interpret utility and AHJ technical requirements and ensure compliant designs.
• Support development of a repository for utility and AHJ design requirements.
• Support procurement and equipment selection approval process.

Skills

3–5 years project-based design

Managing external engineering

Construction design spec development

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

8+ years related experience

Tools

AutoCAD

Procore

Bluebeam

Job description

Highland Electric Fleets is seeking a Project Engineer to own engineering design packages for EV charging, BESS, and edge compute across a fast-moving portfolio. You will generate design packages, coordinate with external engineering partners, and ensure compliance with NEC and AHJ requirements to deliver permit-ready designs.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will review packages, support procurement, and guide site designs from concept to Issued-for-Permit.