Associate Project Engineer

About the role

Ameresco is a leading energy solutions provider helping customers reduce costs, enhance resilience, and decarbonize to net zero. We develop, construct, and operate tailored smart energy efficiency solutions, distributed energy resources, and infrastructure upgrades for public sector, education, utilities, and healthcare customers across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Europe. We are seeking an Associate Project Engineer to join our Federal Engineering Team in Knoxville, TN to develop and implement energy efficiency and distributed energy projects.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate visits to customer project sites to investigate and gather energy performance data for existing mechanical, electrical, HVAC, and control systems.
• Present reports defining project progress, problems, and solutions.
• Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs.
• Conduct project evaluations and assess results.
• Identify opportunities for energy efficiency upgrades and installation of distributed energy resources such as solar PV and battery energy storage systems.
• Develop preliminary cost estimates for project implementation including engineering, equipment, construction, project management, operation, and maintenance expenses.
• Support the preparation of conceptual and detailed engineering design and bid documents including narrative scopes of work, drawings, and specifications.
• Support the evaluation of construction subcontractor bids and equipment vendor proposals to determine best value selections optimized for performance, pricing, and warranty.
• Prepare written content for technical proposals and reports.
• Develop approaches for project commissioning (Cx) and measurement and verification (M&V) of energy savings in collaboration with appropriate Ameresco staff.
• Ensure that project scopes achieve guaranteed energy and performance metrics, meet customer requirements, and comply with industry standards, practices, specifications, and codes.
• Provide engineering support throughout all project phases (proposal, development, construction, commissioning, and operation).
• Cultivate and maintain positive business relationships with colleagues, subcontractors, and customers.
• Work with site Project Manager on ongoing contact, communication, and coordination with Ameresco customers and subcontractors in the design and construction phases, including project status updates and remedies for delays or other concerns.
• Coordinate with subcontractors to ensure quality control and that projects installed per design documents are delivered on time and within budget while meeting or exceeding customers’ expectations.
• Travel as required.
• Perform other duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from a four-year accredited college or university.
• Engineer in Training certificate with progress toward Professional Engineer registration.
• Up to one (1) year of experience in an engineering or project development role.
• Ability to review confidential U.S. security information.

Additional Qualifications

• Demonstrated understanding of engineering principles associated with energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies such as boilers, chillers, building automation systems, HVAC systems, building envelope, PV solar, and water/steam distribution systems.
• Valid driver’s license issued by state of residence and in good standing.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including technical presentation skills.
• Experience working on energy savings performance contracts (ESPC) or utility energy service contracts (UESC).
• Experience with construction phase of project development.
• Knowledge of measurement and verification (M&V) procedures.
• Experience with technologies such as solar PV, battery energy storage systems, cogeneration, microgrids, and power systems.
• Experience using whole building energy or solar PV modeling software.
• Licensure or educational progress toward Professional Engineer (PE).
• Certification or educational progress toward Certified Energy Manager (CEM).