BESS Engineering Manager

Our client is looking for a BESS Engineering Manager to lead the engineering development of BESS systems from early development, preconstruction, construction through to handover and operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Support development activities: site selection and evaluation, constraints and constructability assessment in the light of the commercial requirements.
• Review and opine on grid connection offers.
• Provide technical input to planning, land transaction and consenting processes.
• Lead Technical Due Diligence activities for acquisition of development or RTB BESS projects and coordination of external advisors.
• Coordinate the definition of employer requirements and other commercial requirements such as Q/A and warranty requirements.
• Support financial teams by owning economic assumptions in the financial model, including CAPEX and OPEX assumptions.
• Lead on lender-side technical due diligence. Coordinate with the Financial team to provide the required technical input.
• Own the definition of employer requirements in coordination with OEs or external consultants.
• Support procurement in the definition of the EPC, supply and O&M agreements.
• Identify, address, and mitigate project technical risks.
• Coordinate with Owner Engineers and contractors in the design development process of BESS systems in line with Engineering processes.
• Coordinate with commercial teams to ensure agreements meet commercial and compliance requirements to assure suitability of the technical solution.
• Assure the integration of the BESS projects into the SCADA and AM systems.
• Support Technical Asset Management (TAM) on Q/A and commissioning related matters including control systems.
• Support TAM with technical expertise on performance-related issues, RCAs, repowering, etc.
• Disseminate lessons learned and technical commercial information on BESS related matters to the wider Engineering Team and other business functions.

About You

• Degree in Electrical Engineering (preferred) or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years proven experience as a project engineer, consultant or Engineering Manager in grid scale BESS projects.
• Strong technical understanding of BESS systems, including battery technologies and design, PCS, modular and integrated systems, LV systems, and auxiliaries.
• Familiarity with BESS control and communicating systems (BMS, EMS, etc).
• Proven knowledge of BESS safety systems and related standards.
• Familiarity with grid-connection requirements.
• Awareness of route-to-market considerations for BESS assets.
• Experience with O&M requirements and asset life-cycle requirements is highly desirable.

If you are interested in this role, please apply.

Please note: you must already have the right to work in the country where this role is based to be considered for it.