Energy Engineer Intern

About the role

As a Sr. Energy Engineer, you will perform high-level analysis on complex technical and financial elements, support engineering, process or financial tasks during solution design, and oversee the work of assigned resources for medium to large projects. You will manage aspects of client accounts including budgeting, account growth, risk mitigation, and customer satisfaction. This position is remote.

Responsibilities

• Perform site visits to conduct building energy audits to identify major energy consumption areas and optimize building operation, lighting, controls and HVAC equipment operation.
• Ability to successfully work with client on-site staff to ensure operations and maintenance of assets/equipment are within contractual terms.
• Proactively reviews and/or interprets problems or patterns related to utility bills and energy consumption to limit risk and ensure a high level of customer satisfaction.
• As appropriate, solves issues when need for corrective action is identified.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical clients, suppliers, etc.
• Analyze billing and utility data (post project reviews, rates, weatherization, and anomalies).
• Perform pre and post inspection site visits.
• Review plans and project documents to perform quality control of surveys and installations.
• Manages tools & processes that ensure timely collection and accurate data entry of utility bills or other monitored consumption sources.
• Initiates actions and develops positive customer relationships to support this activity.
• Develop customer baselines/benchmarks, as needed.
• Ensures delivered M&V costs are within 3% of estimated amounts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Energy)
• 1-5+ years in building systems/operations and/or a proven track record of performance in Electrical, Mechanical and Renewable Systems data collection/operation & building systems or operations.
• Professional Engineer License preferred
• Possession of Certified Energy Manager (CEM) certification preferred
• Willing to travel up to 30%
• Active in professional organization(s) such as ASHRAE, AEE, IFMA, BOMA, etc.