Energy Storage Technical Lead
June 18
🏢 In-office - Bay Area
Description
• The Energy Storage Technical Lead will provide development and engineering thought leadership, deploying deep understanding of energy storage products and system optimization to identify opportunities to create more value for customers by pursuing current and future energy storage solutions • Together with a team of design engineers, civil engineers, and electrical engineers, this role will define the solution set that differentiates New Leaf Energy’s business to develop highly valued transmission and distributed scale projects, and enable us to efficiently grow our energy storage business into new market territories and applications • The Energy Storage Technical Lead will fulfill a key leadership role on New Leaf’s energy storage team, a small, cross-functional group with responsibility and decision-making authority over New Leaf Energy’s entire national energy storage portfolio • In partnership with IPPs, internal stakeholders and external vendor partners, the Technical Lead will contribute to design specification, optimization, and costing of our energy storage plants to maximize New Leaf Energy’s value to our customers and reduce our costs to deliver • The Technical Lead will actively support our design engineering team in their goals by working closely with our engineers and clearly articulating how New Leaf Energy’s leadership in technical design creates value for our customers • Position responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: Translating the specifications of OEMs into technical specifications for regional applications, Creating standard operating procedures and tools that empower internal stakeholders and enable them to work effectively and efficiently toward developing new projects, Defining and maintaining energy storage equipment standards to be used by the design engineering team, Collaborating with the New Leaf Energy team and vendors to maintain accurate and competitive cost models to facilitate costing for the new projects, Providing value engineering and other technical sales support for design engineering, project developers, and the finance team, Supporting the evaluation of new equipment components and other direct cost reduction initiatives with key stakeholders from electrical and design engineering teams, Defining standard engineering deliverables that enable our project teams to dramatically improve their execution efficiency, Managing and solving key challenges that arise during development, and creating a central location to store that knowledge, Training new engineers on our energy storage systems and designs, Learning from internal customers in the office and in the field, and managing closed feedback loops to continuously improve our standard product design and deliverables, Participating in interdisciplinary Kaizen events to improve our process
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, or other engineering discipline • 3-5 years’ experience with commercial or utility-scale energy storage and solar PV development, design or construction • Demonstrated understanding of the market for commercial and utility-scale energy storage engineering services • Experience with designing and modeling renewable energy coupled with energy storage • Experience and familiarity with commercially available storage technologies • Working knowledge of fire and building codes, electrical standards (UL/IEEE) and National Electrical Code, U.S. utility interconnection standards • Familiarity with Lean problem-solving techniques and tools and excellent problem-solving skills • A strong entrepreneurial drive and desire to impact the company’s performance • Excellent communication skills • Strong team leadership skills • Comfortable working with a collaborative team in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment
Benefits
• Competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental and vision • A 401k plan with immediate vesting and a company match (100% of the first three percent of your pay; 50% for the next two percent you contribute) • An open and self-managed paid time-off policy • A hybrid work location policy that supports working from home for part of the week • A parental leave policy for both birthing and non-birthing parents, available immediately upon hire • Professional development and education assistance
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