Technical Lead - Energy

About the Role

As a Technical Lead supporting the Behind-the-Meter (BTM) Power Generation team, you will provide senior-level technical leadership while promoting collaboration, quality, safety, and successful project delivery. You will lead complex technical workstreams, manage engineering studies, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, and develop sound technical recommendations and project deliverables maintaining high standards of quality and safety.

Projects may include brownfield and greenfield industrial, commercial, government, and data center developments. Generation sources may include natural gas, hydrogen, small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), diesel, solar, hydroelectric power, energy storage, and hybrid generation systems.

Join us as we Rise to the Challenge at KCI, where we’re building an enduring community that provides unparalleled value to our employee-owners. We invest deeply in supporting and developing our team, rewarding integrity and commitment. Our employees have the freedom to innovate, unlimited growth, a voice that matters, a lifestyle that works, and skin in the game. Achievements are shared and celebrated.

Responsibilities

• Power generation engineering, including conventional, renewable, distributed, and behind-the-meter generation systems.
• Electrical power system studies including load flow, short-circuit, protective device coordination, and reliability analyses.
• Utility-scale power plant experience across multiple project phases, including planning, design, operations, modernization, and construction support.
• Power plant and equipment life-assessment investigations, including condition assessments, remaining-life evaluations, performance reviews, and recommendations for repair, replacement, or modernization.
• Microgrid engineering, including distributed generation, energy storage, controls, islanding, load management, resiliency, and grid synchronization.
• Technical and financial analysis, including economic feasibility studies, capital and operating cost evaluations, lifecycle-cost analysis, technology comparisons, and return-on-investment assessments.
• Environmental compliance experience, including air emissions, water use and discharge, noise, fuel storage, environmental permitting, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Utility interconnection experience, including interconnection applications, feasibility and impact studies, utility coordination, technical requirements, protection schemes, and applicable tariffs and standards.
• Development and evaluation of generation concepts, equipment configurations, single-line diagrams, design criteria, specifications, and technical reports.
• Experience with brownfield and greenfield projects serving industrial, commercial, government, and data center facilities.
• Client and project management support, including energy market leadership, work-in-progress (WIP) and accounts receivable (AR) tracking, and identifying prospective client and project leads.
• Serve as Quality Manager and Project Manager on select projects, ensuring compliance with quality procedures, managing scope, schedule, budget, staffing, quality, and deliverables.
• Develop and implement project-specific safety plans and ensure compliance with applicable safety requirements.
• Training, development, and compliance, including maintaining technical proficiency, professional licenses, and certifications, and mentoring technical staff.
• Financial management and reporting, including developing project budgets, labor plans, billing schedules, and financial forecasts, and achieving budgeted individual utilization targets.
• Project execution and technical oversight, including developing project execution plans, establishing the project basis of design, serving as subject matter expert (SME), conducting site visits, and managing discipline interfaces.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree in engineering.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
• Proven experience in planning, organizing, estimating, scheduling, and monitoring engineering projects.
• Proven experience in project management roles, with a track record of successful project delivery.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with clients, team members, and stakeholders.
• Knowledge of industry standards and best practices related to construction management, quality assurance, and safety protocols.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify issues and implement effective solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.).
• Successful completion of the KCI PM Training and Contract Training (for current employees) or ability to complete within six months (for new hires).

Preferred qualifications include a Master’s Degree in engineering or MBA.

Skills

• Knowledge of power generation technologies and fuels, including natural gas, hydrogen, diesel, solar, hydroelectric power, small modular nuclear reactors, energy storage, and hybrid systems.
• Familiarity with applicable codes and standards, including IEEE, NFPA, NEC, NERC, FERC, and utility-specific requirements.
• Ability to evaluate plant reliability, resilience, efficiency, operability, constructability, maintainability, safety, and technical risk.
• Strong multidisciplinary coordination, technical problem-solving, client consultation, and written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

We offer a competitive compensation package, family-friendly benefits, a collaborative working environment, and the training, mentoring, and resources you need to advance in your career.