Senior Electrical Engineer (BESS/Storage) (onsite, remote option)

Vitaver & Associates, Inc; Juno Beach (FL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Part time

Job summary

Vitaver & Associates, Inc. seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead utility-scale energy projects, focusing on BESS/Storage. The role combines onsite responsibilities with a remote option, requiring relocation readiness to Juno Beach, FL, and strong leadership of technical teams.

You will guide sizing, interconnection, and design activities across multi-discipline engineering, while ensuring safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance for critical energy assets.

Qualifications

• 11+ years leading engineering teams on major energy infrastructure projects.
• Plan, organize and manage engineering projects with cost, reliability and performance focus.
• Supervise a team of engineers through design, permitting and compliance.
• Perform detailed technical assessments and engineering design verifications.
• Bridge conceptual design to field execution with best practices.

Responsibilities

• Perform engineering assignments from limited scope to complex multi-discipline projects.
• Assist with project management, negotiations, performance tracking and reporting.
• Plan and manage projects ensuring regulatory compliance and lead technical teams.
• Engage in decision-making and technical analysis for utility-scale solar and BESS.
• Ensure designs meet specs, safety standards and long-term reliability goals.
• Review one-line diagrams, equipment specs, electrical calculations and studies for accuracy.
• Support activities involving batteries, PCS, transformers, switchgear and grounding.

Skills

Leadership experience

Project planning

Team supervision

Technical reviews

Lifecycle engineering

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (or related)

Job description

Senior Electrical Engineer (BESS/Storage) (onsite, remote option)

14876 - Senior Electrical Engineer (BESS/Storage) (onsite, remote option) - Juno Beach, FL

Start Date: ASAP
Type: Temporary Project
Estimated Duration: 12 months with possible extensions
Work Setting: Remote.

Our client is filling this contract position exclusively through approved staffing partners, so this opportunity is not available by applying directly with the client.

Required 20880 (remote):

• Experience with Leading engineering teams and providing oversight for major energy infrastructure projects (11+ years).
• Experience with Planning, organizing, and managing engineering projects with advanced knowledge application, balancing cost, reliability, and performance.
• Experience with Supervising a team of engineers and overseeing design development, permitting, and compliance for energy infrastructure.
• Experience with Detailed technical assessments, engineering design reviews, and compliance verifications for power delivery projects.
• Experience with Bridging the gap between conceptual engineering and field execution, ensuring best practices are applied throughout the project lifecycle.
• Bachelor of Science in Engineering.

Preferred 20880 (remote):

• Experience with Engineering in power, energy, data center, or industrial infrastructure projects (5+ years).
• Experience with Power system fundamentals: one-line diagrams, protection and controls, grounding, arc flash, and interconnection.
• Experience with Reviewing and coordinating engineering deliverables with external design firms or Engineers of Record (EORs).
• Experience with Validating software-generated engineering results against accepted calculations.
• Professional Engineering (PE).
• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (or related field).

Responsibilities 20880 (remote):

• Perform engineering assignments ranging from limited scope and complexity to advanced engineering projects requiring expertise in multiple disciplines.
• Assist with project management, negotiations, performance tracking and reporting.
• Plan, organize, and manage engineering projects, ensuring regulatory compliance, and leading technical teams.
• Engage in decision-making, technical analysis, project coordination, and engineering oversight, with a focus on utility-scale solar, BESS, and power plant operations.
• Work as an extension of the engineering team, ensuring designs meet project specifications, safety standards, and long-term performance and reliability goals.
• Review one-line diagrams, equipment specifications, electrical calculations, design drawings and technical studies for accuracy, completeness, and constructability for utility-scale BESS and other inverter-based resource projects.
• Support engineering activities involving batteries, power conversion systems and inverters, transformers, switchgear, cables, grounding, protection, controls, and auxiliary power systems, and support their technical evaluation.

Required 20879 (onsite):

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in electrical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, or a related field.

20879 is onsite: 100% of the time at the Client's site. No telecommuting or remote work. This is a non-negotiable requirement from the client. Only candidates able to relocate as required should apply to avoid removal from future consideration.

Preferred 20879 (onsite):

• Availability to work 100% of the time at the Client's site inJuno Beach, FL(required);
• Experience with Utility-scale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) sizing and optimization, including AC/DC sizing, degradation, system losses, augmentation/overbuild, thermal impacts, and project-specific operating requirements.
• Experience with Alternative chemistry technologies, such as flow battery, multi-day storage system, fuel-cell-like technologies, sodium ion battery, and supercapacitor.
• Experience with Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) and Silicon Carbide (SiC) inverters.
• Experience with Energy storage industry with demonstrated relationships with major and emerging battery and/or Power Conversion System (PCS) vendors.
• Experience with Applying Artificial Intelligence (AI), automation, programming, or advanced data-analysis tools to engineering problems.
• Experience with Developing engineering tools using Excel/Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Python, Power BI, low-code platforms, or AI tools.
• Experience with Document and folder organization for ease access, retrieval, and database tracking.
• Experience with Project management.

Responsibilities 20879 (onsite):

• Support the lead Subject Matter Expert (SME) for utility-scale BESS sizing, providing technical leadership on sizing methodology, assumptions, optimization, and project-specific sizing decisions.
• Develop and optimize end-to-end BESS sizing from the point of interconnection through GSU/substation, PCS/inverters, DC system, and battery, accounting for system losses, degradation, augmentation/overbuild strategies, contact.
• Own and continuously improve BESS sizing methodologies, calculators, assumptions, and technical guidance to ensure consistent and accurate sizing across projects.
• Organize and maintain a clear tracking record updates.
• Review project-specific sizing results, rectify as a, t.
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• Support the lead SME to evaluate new and system ask.

Why apply?

• Gain experience with one of the world's largest solar and wind energy providers,which last year briefly became the most valued U.S. energy company;
• Work with a great team of professionals and learn newest technologies and approaches;
• Enjoy our Client’s wonderful campus with top-notch facilities for work and recreation;
• Benefit from multiple projects extensions;
• Receive support and advice from Vitaver consultants who are already working at our Client’s site;
• Get extra cash by participating in Vitaver Successful Completion Bonus Program;
• Always get paid in full and on time.