Project Development Engineer, Repowering and Restoration

Koch Business Solutions, LP; Scottsdale (AZ); Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

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Retirement

Paid time off

Educational assistance

Infertility assistance

Parental leave

Job summary

DEPCOM Power, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, seeks a Project Development Engineer to lead pre-sale engineering for PV and BESS repowering, restoration, and modernization. Remote or Scottsdale/Bedminster-based with travel.

You will build technical concepts, develop scopes, and maintain client relationships throughout the opportunity lifecycle. Ideal candidates will have a engineering degree, PV/BESS knowledge, and experience presenting to customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Working knowledge of utility-scale PV systems, inverters, BESS, controls, and balance-of-plant equipment.
• Experience presenting technical recommendations or project scopes to customers and stakeholders.
• Experience evaluating technical, commercial, cost, schedule, or execution tradeoffs during development or delivery.
• Ability to travel as needed for customer meetings and site visits.

Responsibilities

• Lead pre-sale technical evaluation of solar repowering, inverter replacement, restoration, BESS augmentation, and facility modernization.
• Develop economical engineering concepts and replacement strategies based on customer objectives and RFPs.
• Build and maintain trusted technical relationships with customers during opportunity lifecycle.
• Collaborate with BD, Estimating, and Engineering to support pricing and validation of assumptions.
• Develop technical exhibits and documentation for proposals and contracts.
• Identify risks early and hand off to preconstruction and execution teams upon award.
• Support customer meetings, site visits, and workshops to strengthen relationships.
• Stay aware of industry trends and OEM tech developments to ensure competitive solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement of tools, standards, and templates for proposals.

Skills

Engineering knowledge

Travel willingness

Customer communication

Tradeoff analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Your Job

DEPCOM Power, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is seeking a Project Development Engineer, Repowering and Restoration to join our Services organization. This role supports the pre-sale development of utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) and battery energy storage system (BESS) repowering, restoration, augmentation, and modernization opportunities.

The position may be based in Scottsdale, AZ, Bedminster, NJ, or fully remote and will require travel as needed to support customer engagement and site evaluations.

This role does not provide VISA sponsorship.

Our Team

Join a culture that values ownership, continuous improvement, and innovation, where you'll influence and enhance development and estimating processes that support large-scale renewable energy projects. Collaborate with cross-functional teams dedicated to excellence in project execution while benefiting from career growth opportunities that extend beyond DEPCOM Power. At Koch, career advancement isn't limited by predefined paths. Our Principle Based Management philosophy empowers employees to pursue work that aligns with their strengths and passions, creating opportunities across our network of businesses.

What You Will Do

• Lead the pre-sale technical evaluation of solar repowering, inverter replacement, restoration, BESS augmentation, and facility modernization opportunities.
• Develop economical engineering concepts and replacement strategies, including project Scopes of Work, assumptions, and exclusions, based on customer objectives and RFP requirements.
• Build and maintain trusted technical relationships with customers by leading technical discussions throughout the opportunity lifecycle.
• Partner with Business Development, Estimating, and Engineering teams to support account strategy, pricing development, and validation of technical and execution assumptions.
• Develop technical exhibits and supporting documentation for project proposals and contracts and support customer negotiations as needed.
• Identify technical, commercial, schedule, and constructability risks early in project development and provide a clear technical handoff to preconstruction and execution teams upon project award.
• Support customer meetings, site visits, industry conferences, and technical workshops to strengthen customer relationships and identify new opportunities.
• Maintain awareness of industry trends, OEM technology developments, and market conditions to help ensure competitive and value-creating solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement by developing and refining tools, standards, and templates that increase proposal efficiency and consistency across the organization.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent technical experience supporting utility-scale renewable energy projects.
• Working knowledge of utility-scale PV systems, inverters, battery energy storage systems (BESS), controls, and balance-of-plant equipment.
• Experience presenting technical recommendations, solutions, or project scopes to customers, project stakeholders, or commercial teams.
• Experience evaluating technical, commercial, cost, schedule, or execution tradeoffs during project development, engineering, or project delivery activities.
• Ability to travel as needed for customer meetings, site visits, and technical workshops.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience supporting solar repowering, inverter replacement, restoration, augmentation, or facility modernization projects.
• Experience working for or with EPC contractors, asset owners, independent power producers (IPPs), utilities, OEMs, or O&M providers.
• Detailed knowledge of equipment utilized in utility-scale solar and energy storage projects.
• Experience evaluating legacy equipment and existing electrical systems.

For this role, we anticipate paying $100,000 - $130,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, DEPCOM Power is a leading energy-solutions partner for the utility solar and broader energy industries, providing project development support, engineering, procurement and construction, energy storage, repowering and operations and maintenance services. Our highly skilled team of conventional and renewable power industry experts work to deliver the lowest cost of energy and the highest rate of return.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending and health savings accounts
• life insurance
• ADD
• disability
• retirement
• paid vacation/time off
• educational assistance
• may also include infertility assistance
• paid parental leave and adoption assistance

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).