Senior Electrical Reliability Engineer, PV & BESS

nexamp; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexamp is seeking a Senior Electrical Performance Engineer to improve the reliability, availability, and performance of Nexamp's solar PV and BESS assets, currently exceeding 2 GW. The hybrid role is based from our Lawrence, Boston, New York City, Chicago, or Washington, DC offices, reporting to the Director, Performance Engineering.

You will apply advanced electrical engineering analysis to operating systems in the field, perform root-cause investigations, and drive data-backed recommendations

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 7+ years of electrical engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience in solar and protection relays (breakers, reclosers, power logic controllers, etc.).
• Commitment to Nexamp's mission and have a passion for solving tomorrow's climate crisis today.
• Demonstrated experience in effectively communicating information, ideas, and perspectives with people inside and beyond your organization.
• Experience in showcasing initiative to make improvements to current work, processes, products, and services across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Own plant protection, controls, and compliance strategy by reviewing and coordinating protection settings across OCPDs, relays, inverters, and plant controllers; managing required setting changes with third-party vendors; and securing utility approvals to ensure safe, reliable operation.
• Engage with utilities on complex grid-interaction issues related to protection schemes, relay settings, and plant control behavior; diagnose misalignment between plant and utility protection philosophies; negotiate solutions that optimize availability and interconnection compliance.
• Improve system reliability and energy performance by evaluating protection schemes, breaker coordination, relay timing, circuit configurations, and inverter control functions.
• Partner with Engineering to improve design standards and fleet consistency, including relay database templates, equipment specifications, standard drawings, and protection philosophies.
• Lead data-driven reliability and loss reduction efforts by analyzing inverter logs, relay events, EMS dispatch data, and waveform captures; conducting root-cause and 8D investigations; quantifying impacts; and recommending actions.
• Own fleetwide monitoring and diagnostics strategy by refining alert thresholds, logic, and escalation workflows to reduce false positives and accelerate incident response.
• Develop analytical models, diagnostic frameworks, and performance standards for Nexamp's PV and BESS fleet, integrating power systems engineering with data analytics.
• Influence organizational capability by representing Performance Engineering in cross-functional initiatives and mentoring junior analysts.

Skills

Electrical engineering experience

Solar experience

Protection relays

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Professional Engineer license (PE) – a plus

Job description

Nexamp is seeking a Senior Electrical Performance Engineer to improve the reliability, availability, and performance of Nexamp's solar PV and BESS assets, currently exceeding 2 GW. The hybrid role is based from our Lawrence, Boston, New York City, Chicago, or Washington, DC offices, reporting to the Director, Performance Engineering.

You will apply advanced electrical engineering analysis to operating systems in the field, perform root-cause investigations, and drive data-backed recommendations