Senior Asset Management Engineer - Grid & BESS Authority

NextGenEnergyJobs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan with 3% employer match

LifeTime Fitness corporate membership

Monthly commuter stipend

Learning and education stipend

Flexible PTO policy

Regular company events

Job summary

Orenda is seeking a Principal Engineer to act as the fleet's technical conscience within the Asset Management department, ensuring long-term health, safety, and engineering integrity of every Orenda BESS asset from acceptance to decommissioning.

Reporting to the Director of Asset Management, you will build the technical foundation with failure mode analyses and alarm philosophy, develop master maintenance plans, and codify the safety program and test protocols for enforceable performance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or closely related field.
• 10+ years in power systems engineering across generation, storage, or transmission & distribution, including senior authority roles.
• Demonstrated depth in protection and coordination studies, arc-flash analyses, one-line designs, MV switchgear.
• Familiarity with NEC, IEEE 1547, UL 9540/9540A, NFPA 855/70E/70B codes.
• Led FMEA/RCM programs, alarm rationalization and root-cause investigations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the fleet's technical conscience and independent authority for asset health, safety, and engineering integrity from acceptance to decommissioning.
• Build the technical foundation: failure mode analysis, alarm philosophy, maintenance plans, safety program, and test protocols.
• Collaborate with Engineer of Record and OEMs to ensure robust engineering standards across the fleet.

Skills

Power systems engineering

Protection studies

ARC flash analyses

Field experience

Python/SQL for analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Tools

CMMS

Python

SQL

Job description

Orenda is seeking a Principal Engineer to act as the fleet's technical conscience within the Asset Management department, ensuring long-term health, safety, and engineering integrity of every Orenda BESS asset from acceptance to decommissioning.

Reporting to the Director of Asset Management, you will build the technical foundation with failure mode analyses and alarm philosophy, develop master maintenance plans, and codify the safety program and test protocols for enforceable performance