Project Development Engineer

Responsibilities

• Support and potentially lead the development of energy and water efficiency improvements as well as renewable energy and storage opportunities, primarily in the Northeast Region.
• Work collaboratively with the development and sales teams to identify and evaluate opportunities for energy and water conservation, efficiency, or renewable technology.
• Prepare energy savings calculations, develop baseline profiles, and provide end-use and retrofit analyses.
• Prepare preliminary design (30%) of proposed energy improvements and collaborate with local contractors for budgetary pricing.
• Coordinate design and development group activities in support of construction, operations, and maintenance of projects as required by the contract.
• Collaborate efforts to prepare conceptual and detailed engineering design and bid documents, cost estimates, drawings, and specifications for energy and water efficient technologies and/or renewable technologies.
• Interface with other departments, management, and non-technical staff to collaborate technical diligence with a business solution in mind.
• Prepare and populate internal financial models, providing ROI, life cycle costing, and internal rate of return specifics to the team and customer.
• Develop Measurement and Verification plans for projects requiring a guarantee.
• Provide engineering guidance throughout development, construction, project commissioning, and operations, including proposals, technical reports, cost estimates, and presentations.
• Execute project implementation that meets or exceeds company objectives, financial parameters, and technical needs required to deliver customer energy cost savings.
• Comply with company, industry, trade, and jurisdictional safety standards, practices, codes.
• Ensure successful project implementation that meets or exceeds company objectives, financial parameters, and technical needs required to deliver customer energy cost savings.
• Contribute to overall team education, communication, and growth.
• Cultivate and maintain positive business relationships.
• Perform other duties as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering; Mechanical engineering
• Minimum of five (5) years' experience acting in an energy or project development engineering role, including experience with: site auditing, utility data analysis, project development, energy and water savings calculations and modeling, renewable energy calculations and modeling, energy studies, face-to-face customer interaction, financial analysis, various contracting models, rebate and incentives, performance contracting.

Additional Qualifications

• Professional Certifications or education progress toward certification viewed as favorable for position requirements (EIT, PE, MBA, CEM, NABCEP).
• Demonstrated ability to analyze, quantify, and qualify energy savings and implement complex technical solutions involving supply side savings opportunities, water conservation, waste management, distributed generation, and renewable energy technology.
• Knowledge of HVAC, lighting, water, metering, and energy generation technologies.
• Knowledge of solar PV modeling and applications.
• Demonstrated skills in priority organization, technical writing, detail-oriented approach, with ability to produce big picture results in a fast-paced business environment.
• Demonstrated ability to interact and work with multi-functional teams including: sales, customers, equipment vendors, multi discipline engineers, and utilities.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including written and verbal.
• Demonstrated ability to self-start project tasks, work proactively, work to understand project objectives, deliverables, timeframes, and expectations.
• Ability to travel to project sites to support development efforts. Travel less than 50% of the time.