Senior BESS Project Engineer: End-to-End Delivery

Redwood Materials; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Redwood Materials in San Francisco, CA invites a Senior/Staff BESS Project Engineer to own end-to-end delivery of battery energy storage projects. You will coordinate Business Development, Product Engineering, EPC partners, and customers across all phases from scoping to commissioning and handoff to Operations.

This role requires leadership of schedule, budget, and risk, with frequent travel to project sites and a strong emphasis on safety, quality, and meeting milestones within scope.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Program Management, Business, or a related discipline.
• Deep program management experience in battery energy storage, renewable energy, or utility-scale power infrastructure.
• Experience managing projects from scoping through commissioning and Operations and Maintenance handoff, with ownership of schedule, budget, and risk.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills, comfortable managing up, down, and across internal and external EPC, customer, and internal engineering teams.
• Familiarity with key BESS-related standards such as UL 9540, UL 9540A, UL 1973, UL 1741, IEEE, NEC (NFPA 70), NFPA 855, and IEC.
• Willingness to travel to project sites as needed.
• A Passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end project execution from requirements scoping through handoff.
• Own the integrated schedule, budget tracker, and risk register for each project.
• Serve as the primary interface between Business Development, Product Engineering, and EPC partners and customers.
• Track RFI and submittal workflows, change orders, permitting, interconnection, and all contractual deliverables.
• Partner with Product Engineering on equipment selection and BOM alignment; retain change control.
• Oversee commissioning readiness and test plan execution, and manage handoff to Operations.
• Maintain project data in PM tooling and capture lessons learned for repeatable delivery.

Skills

Project management

Scheduling

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional communication

BESS knowledge

UL standards

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Project management software

Job description

Redwood Materials in San Francisco, CA invites a Senior/Staff BESS Project Engineer to own end-to-end delivery of battery energy storage projects. You will coordinate Business Development, Product Engineering, EPC partners, and customers across all phases from scoping to commissioning and handoff to Operations.

This role requires leadership of schedule, budget, and risk, with frequent travel to project sites and a strong emphasis on safety, quality, and meeting milestones within scope.