Project Engineer

Portland, OR, United States

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About Powin:

Powin Energy is a leading producer of utility scale modular battery energy storage system (complete with a patented, advanced, cloud-based monitoring/control system). That means we build power plants out of batteries that put coal and gas generators out of business and enable sustainable viability for renewable energy sources like solar and wind.

Powin is, and will continue to be, one of a handful of companies that will provide the equipment necessary to make this happen. Powin has distinct competitive advantages: cost-effectiveness; reliability; scalability; deploy-ability; and operational sophistication. Every day we work to ensure that we maintain these competitive advantages and our position as a global leader in providing turnkey, battery energy storage solutions for utility-scale, commercial and industrial, and microgrid applications.

Summary:

The Project Engineer has a broad area of activity and will follow the BESS system through project initiation and RFP, sizing, and optimization, contracting, commissioning, and operations life cycle. PEs work closely with Powin’s own and third-party product engineers and provide varying levels of support from Sales through to Operations depending upon the product maturity and customer’s familiarity with storage systems.

Pre-Sale

Work with the sales leads, bid team, and the customer to provide required information and education on Battery Energy Storage Systems

Identify any gaps in the existing or proposed energy storage solution, and work with the product management and product engineering teams to fully specify the requirements to resolve the gap

Capture and document the operating requirements for the project

Work with the project management organization and logistics team to fully develop the timeline, costs, any constraints of the solution and communicate to sales lead and customer

Work with commercial and legal teams to ensure timely and favorable contracting terms

Post-Shortlist/Award

Provide the necessary designs (containers, stacks, DC and AC collection) to the project execution teams to guide project contracting and construction

Lead on all use-case, energy management system, integration, and networking definitions

Employ value-engineering principles in the battery energy storage system and complete Bill of Materials for each job to determine the cost, timeline, constraints and risks

Communicate and negotiate planned delivery date of the solution with the project execution team, effectively adjusting customer expectations as needed

Continue to capture and document operating requirements for the system

Directly manage each project through contracting, supporting Commercial and Legal team to ensure successful delivery

Installation and Commissioning

Act as a key resource for managing product, design and solution issues that arise

Finalize the operating requirements for the system in conjunction with the project execution team

Provide software and system configurations for the programmable components, based on the operating requirements of the system, to the commissioning teams

Perform any new or non-standard tests and analyses during installation and commissioning, to assess and confirm anticipated operating behavior

Work with customer to identify any missing system requirements

Liaise with Product Management / Engineering and Sales on any new requirements that are to be delivered post-commissioning

Coordinate commissioning and testing with System Operations Teams

Perform ongoing analyses of the performance of the system over time and accurately diagnose issues as they arise

Provide expert technical support when the System Operations Teams or the customer identify operational issues

Ensure that augmentation plans are optimized and applicable to the project and support augmentation installations

Qualifications:

Bachelor of Science or other 4-year technical degree, ideally in Electrical Engineering or Renewable Engineering

Minimum 4 years of systems design and field operations experience in battery energy storage systems (BESS), power systems, or PV solar system projects

Knowledge and experience with power conversion systems

Familiarity with SCADA, Modbus, and networking applications

Ability to create system designs, single lines and block diagrams using AutoCAD or Visio/Smart Draw

Strong organizational skills and work ethic

Excellent written and oral communication, with the ability to adapt style and vocabulary to technical and nontechnical stakeholders

Effective presentation skills required, both in the creation and delivery of presentation materials

Proven track record of creating and sustaining positive interpersonal relationships

Demonstrated ability to successfully overcome the challenges of a fast paced and rapidly growing company

Ability and willingness to travel regularly

Hybrid/Remote opportunity

Powin is not accepting resumes from unsolicited headhunters or agencies at this time.

EEO STATEMENT: The Company is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices and laws. The Company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and job applicants without unlawful regard to race, color, age, gender, gender identification or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, religion or creed, national origin, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, protected veteran status, disability (mental or physical), or any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local law.

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