Hybrid Project Engineer for Renewable Energy

NES Fircroft

Texas

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 165,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

NES Fircroft is seeking a Project Engineer to support the Project Manager and engineering team on utility‑scale renewable energy projects in Houston. The role is execution‑focused, providing technical deliverable tracking, interface coordination, and field issue resolution.

Based in Downtown Houston with a hybrid model (3 days in the office, 2 from home), travel to project sites may be required. Candidate will support procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover activities.

Qualifications

Legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer. Sponsorship is not available for this assignment.
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Civil, Mechanical, or a related engineering discipline.
10+ years of relevant engineering experience supporting energy, power, infrastructure, industrial, or large capital projects.
Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering deliverables and working with contractors, consultants, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
Working knowledge of design reviews, technical specifications, vendor documentation, RFIs, change management, construction support, and project closeout.
Practical familiarity with applicable engineering codes and standards relevant to the assigned discipline.
Ability to organize technical information, identify gaps and interfaces, drive action closure, and communicate issues clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to manage priorities across multiple workstreams.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office and common engineering, document‑control, project‑management, or collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

Support development and maintenance of basis‑of‑design documents, technical requirements, design criteria, specifications, and engineering deliverable registers.
Coordinate technical inputs and interfaces among EPC contractors, OEMs, consultants, engineers of record, Owner’s Engineer, internal subject‑matter experts, and the Project Manager.
Track engineering deliverables, design reviews, comments, technical risks, RFIs, deviations, action items, and due dates through resolution.
Review civil, structural, electrical, SCADA, interconnection, and commissioning documents for alignment with project requirements, applicable codes, and company standards, within the individual’s area of competence.
Prepare engineering status updates and clearly expedite overdue deliverables, unresolved interfaces, design gaps, and technical risks.
Support RFP technical packages, technical exhibits, vendor data requirements, bidder clarifications, technical bid evaluations, and recommendation documentation.
Support or participate in EPC, equipment‑supply, and technical contract negotiations, including review of technical scope, assumptions, exclusions, deviations, interfaces, and deliverable requirements.
Coordinate survey, geotechnical, GIS, environmental, permitting, utility, and interconnection inputs required for design development.
Support constructability reviews and coordinate RFIs and field engineering issues with Construction, EPC contractors, OEMs, and engineers of record.
Provide technical support during procurement, construction, startup, commissioning, testing, performance verification, and operational turnover.
Support change‑management reviews by organizing technical records, assessing the engineering basis, and identifying potential scope, cost, schedule, or performance implications for review by the accountable project team.
Maintain organized engineering records, meeting minutes, technical correspondence, submittal logs, as‑built documentation, warranty information, and turnover packages.
Capture lessons learned and support improvements to engineering templates, standards, review workflows, and project execution practices.