Senior Project Engineer - Solar & Battery Storage, Hybrid

ContourGlobal; Houston (TX); Ibrido; USD 150.000 - 210.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

ContourGlobal is seeking a Senior Project Engineer to lead the engineering program for utility-scale solar PV and BESS projects in the Americas. You will coordinate internal SMEs, external consultants, EPC contractors, and equipment suppliers from due diligence through COD, ensuring technically sound and commercially optimized outcomes.

You will act as owner’s representative, drive design reviews, manage procurement interfaces, and mentor junior staff while maintaining schedule and budget

Competenze

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Civil, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Experience: 8+ years of progressive engineering experience, including at least 3 years in a lead or owner’s engineer role supporting utility-scale solar PV and/or BESS projects across the full lifecycle (due diligence through COD).
• Travel: Occasional travel to project sites as needed to support execution and coordination.
• Engineering leadership: Lead multi-discipline engineering efforts across solar PV and BESS projects, coordinating internal teams, EPC contractors, and external consultants from development through construction and COD.
• Technical expertise: Broad knowledge of civil, electrical, interconnection, and SCADA/I&C systems, with the ability to review deliverables, identify risks, and drive resolution across disciplines.
• Owner’s representative experience: Track record of managing third-party consultants and EPC partners, ensuring alignment with project scope, schedule, budget, and technical standards.
• Communication & influence: Translate complex technical topics into clear, actionable insights for leadership, lenders, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Commercial awareness: Assess engineering decisions through risk and value lens to support sound project outcomes.
• Preferred: PE license and/or PMP certification
• Preferred: Experience supporting project finance transactions and lender due diligence
• Preferred: Familiarity with BESS systems (BMS/EMS, NFPA 855, thermal management)
• Preferred: Experience with hybrid solar + storage projects
• Preferred: Knowledge of interconnection, regulatory, and NERC-related requirements

Mansioni

• Own the overall engineering program for each project from acquisition through COD, establishing and maintaining the engineering schedule and deliverables across all disciplines.
• Serve as the single point of accountability for engineering quality and completeness, coordinating civil, electrical, structural, and SCADA/I&C workstreams to ensure integrated, conflict-free design packages.
• Lead engineering kick-off meetings, design progress reviews, and cross-discipline coordination meetings; manage action item tracking and issue resolution across consultant teams and internal SMEs.
• Synthesize discipline-level findings into an integrated risk matrix and executive-ready acquisition memo, translating technical issues into commercial impact and recommended mitigation strategies.
• Work with engineering specialists to provide consolidated engineering CapEx inputs for acquisition financial models.
• Support RFPs, evaluate proposals, negotiate contracts, and manage all consultant and EPC technical interfaces throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate and integrate consultant deliverables across disciplines, ensuring cross-discipline consistency and identifying gaps or conflicts before they reach the EPC or permitting stage.
• Manage the overall design process from 30% through IFC and as-built, ensuring design milestones are met and inter-discipline conflicts are resolved.
• Coordinate equipment procurement interfaces, including review of PV module, inverter, tracker, BESS, and transformer technical specifications.
• Manage value engineering exercises, identifying opportunities to reduce CapEx without compromising technical performance, reliability, or interconnection compliance.
• Serve as the owner’s engineering lead during construction, overseeing EPC technical performance and coordinating discipline SME site visits, submittal reviews, and RFI responses.
• Review and adjudicate EPC RFIs, submittal reviews, and change order requests from an integrated, cross-discipline perspective; elevate issues requiring discipline SME input and consolidate owner responses.
• Oversee commissioning and startup activities across all engineering disciplines, coordinating with the EPC, equipment vendors, utility, and O&M provider through Substantial Completion and COD.
• Develop and maintain company-wide engineering standards, design criteria, and specification templates for consistent portfolio-wide application.
• Lead post-COD lessons-learned reviews and translate findings into updated procurement practices, design standards, and risk management protocols.
• Mentor junior engineers and project management staff; support the development of the company’s internal engineering capability as the portfolio grows.

Conoscenze

Engineering leadership

Project management

Multi-discipline coordination

Technical review

Communication

Stakeholder management

Commercial awareness

SQL/Python knowledge

Formazione

Bachelor’s in Electrical/Civil/Mechanical Eng

Strumenti

EPC/consultant management

Descrizione del lavoro

ContourGlobal is seeking a Senior Project Engineer to lead the engineering program for utility-scale solar PV and BESS projects in the Americas. You will coordinate internal SMEs, external consultants, EPC contractors, and equipment suppliers from due diligence through COD, ensuring technically sound and commercially optimized outcomes.

You will act as owner’s representative, drive design reviews, manage procurement interfaces, and mentor junior staff while maintaining schedule and budget