Energy Engineer

Remote with periodic onsite client or company meetings

Preferred locations: Cincinnatti,  Chicago, Minneapolis

ENERGY ENGINEER

The Opportunity:

INTRODUCTION

Company culture is one to be proud of.  Employees have indicated that the learning opportunity, exposure to our sophisticated clients, and methods provides engineers a terrific opportunity. We are a flat organization which provides early career engineers a huge opportunity to work with experts at all levels.

Our engineers conduct energy audits, perform energy data mining, data and financial analysis, create energy models, and develop strategies and recommendations to help large industrial and commercial facilities achieve sustainability goals through energy efficiency. You will work individually and with a team to achieve project milestones, create high quality deliverables, and enhance our analytic toolsets that provide value to our customers. We are considering candidates who are located in the Midwest and more specifically Cincinnati, Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, or Minneapolis. You will need to come into the office in Cincinnati to learn our methods but will be visiting clients onsite regularly.

POSITIONS AVAILABLE

The Company has multiple positions at varying levels of responsibility open for resourceful Energy Engineer Champions to serve our customers.

• Energy Engineers with 5-7 years’ experience in corporate energy planning, manufacturing engineering, industrial control, or related areas to meet the growing demand for its unique and results-oriented approach to Strategic Energy Management (SEM).  Degree in Engineering (Electrical, Chemical, Mechanical, Facilities) and Masters preferred.
• Energy Engineer with Master’s Degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering, or a related field of study with 2+ years of relevant job experience OR a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering with 4+ years of engineering experience.

Our engineers combine on-site engineering, data mining, modeling, and analytics to develop long-term energy plans with our Fortune 500 industrial and commercial customers. We will provide training in our proprietary data mining and analysis methodology.

The position requires a hands-on understanding of the components driving energy usage, and the ability to integrate engineering with data mining and analysis. The successful Engineer will collaborate with the client to obtain the data and build out an effective, long term Strategic Energy Management (SEM) plan considering cost benefits, sustainability, and changing client needs.  Our proprietary methods provide fact-based, predictive tools to minimize uncertainty in the energy plans.

The Challenge:

As an Energy Engineer, your challenge is to understand the opportunities and help overcome hurdles for energy management that companies in the commercial and industrial sectors encounter by partnering with site energy teams.

Energy Engineers are the main client-facing team member and are crucial for project execution. You will use sound engineering principles and our proprietary data mining toolset to process and mine data about energy intensive systems and to uncover opportunities for savings. As quality and accuracy are vital, we rely on you to ensure our energy data mining techniques, manufacturing analysis, and modeling approaches are effective and reliable.

We aim to combine the talent and capabilities Energy Engineers bring with the intellectual capital to solve clients’ energy challenges and build long term client relations.

Energy Engineer Qualifications:

• A mechanical, electrical, chemical or facilities engineering degree at the bachelor level; Master’s degree strongly preferred
• 5-7 years post-graduate, professional experience in energy management or a related field
• Passion for Energy Engineering is desirable
• Able to demonstrate success with similar projects and clients, having achieved project goals.
• Working knowledge of various commercial/industrial systems, including HVAC, lighting, process heating/cooling, compressed air, steam/hot water, manufacturing systems; knowledge of various building controls systems and automation equipment
• Understand the drivers of energy consumption and elements that could reduce consumption
• Experience conducting energy audits for manufacturing, industrial facilities
• Experience analyzing energy consumption and performing energy modeling for systems and buildings
• Ability to use conventional engineering tools, modeling and drawing programs
• Experience developing models in one or more statistical software packages like Matlab, SAS, SPSS, R, RATS, Stata; able to understand and interpret modeled results using HAP, Trane Trace,
• ASHRAE Level II auditing
• CEM is preferred, but not required
• E.I.T. or PE license preferred, but not required
• Working knowledge of P&IDs

Energy Engineer Duties:

1. Generate and support energy management strategy, initiatives, and SEM implementation.

• Perform site walkthroughs of medium to large industrial and commercial sector customers to evaluate/identify energy-intensive equipment.
• Own primary responsibility for interfacing with customer teams to acquire understanding of existing system and equipment operations schedules, controls, issues, concerns, opportunities and proposed changes.
• Apply sound engineering principles and best practices to develop cost/benefit analysis for energy projects including operational efficiencies, capital funding requests, rebate opportunities, equipment age and condition, etc.

2. Task management

• • Create simplified system diagrams in preparation for engineering analysis
  • Create a data collection plan and monitoring needs with parameters to be trended for understanding system and equipment performance
  • Develop energy conservation opportunities using data and engineering analysis and compile final reports for customers
  • Provide guidance, and facilitate consensus and approvals for an effective and sustainable energy strategy among customer teams
  • Ensure that all engineering calculations are clear and traceable for third-party engineering review
  • Make sure the task list and status are up to date for The Company’s project management teams

3. Maintain and enhance customer relationships

• • Create clear, concise data visualizations and reports to advise customer on opportunities to improve energy efficiency
  • Craft effective presentations and communicate findings and justification for projects to be implemented by customer
  • Be primary point of contact for projects and know your customer
  • Represent customer interests in-house
  • Perform a project as if you were the plant engineer or manager
  • Ask for and explain data requirement needs
  • Meet all project milestones

4. Enhance creativity and internal processes and tools

• • Provide new tools and standards for use as they are developed
  • Identify areas that can be made more efficient
  • Work with development and operations team to implement your ideas
  • Create organized repository of resources to reference and learn from and improve
  • Facilitate teams to generate innovative ideas for energy conservation and leverage collaboration to focus on results and cycle time reduction for improving energy efficiency

Success Factors:

• Has previously performed similar project and can describe or quantify the success.
• Able to evaluate/synthesize and organize large amounts of data and identify the key information necessary to evaluate performance and opportunities
• Analyzing facts quickly and arriving at sound conclusions and practical plans of action
• Coming up with new ideas, including innovative technical suggestions, and sensibly exploring their pay-off possibilities
• Learning to respond effectively in new situations using good common sense and previous experience

Performance Expectations

• Key responsibility for energy assessments and maintaining a pipeline of energy conservation measures for over 15 commercial and industrial customers in a year
• Proficiency in at least 3 energy intensive systems such as compressed air and process heating/cooling systems
• Strong MS Excel skills for capturing and presenting engineering data, technical assumptions and analytical outcomes.
• Follow company standard operating practices and policies to ensure consistency, quality, budget compliance and timeliness of results in accordance with project plans

Some Travel will be required; salary is commensurate with experience. Interested in applicants who have the right to work in the USA.