Senior Project Engineer

Job Title: Senior Project Engineer

In office Location: Portland, Oregon

Reports to: Sr Manager Development Engineering

The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from: $114,332 - $142,916

Job Summary:

The Senior Project Development Engineer is responsible for conducting and organizing early-stage engineering scopes associated with the development of utility-scale onshore wind (greenfield/repower), solar, and energy storage projects. Working closely with the project team, this person will focus on completion of preliminary engineering to pace with overall project development, contractor bidding, project investment approval, and transition to Construction Engineering. In addition to strong conceptual and practical renewables development engineering knowledge and experience, the successful candidate will have a proven track-record of using engineering analysis to reach sound conclusions and recommendations relative to project performance and profitability.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as engineering technical interface with key Avangrid stakeholder teams, including Development & Origination, Environmental & Permitting, Transmission/Interconnect, Capital Estimating, Scheduling, Meteorology, Project Engineering, and Project Management, to advance development projects to investment approval.

• Direct electrical and civil design basis, scope documentation, engineering and design of preliminary transmission, substation, and balance of plant design for wind, PV, and BESS projects.

• Define base cases and evaluate alternative configurations.

• Coordinate multi-disciplinary design reviews and optimization while identifying cost and other value engineering opportunities.     

• Support transmission interconnection planning, contracting, and transmission owner coordination.  Manage electrical studies to define electrical parameters of the project and components, including review and input into interconnection study reports, and definition of grid integration and interconnection requirements.

• Coordinate engineering with permitting requirements to ensure designs respect wetlands, sensitive areas, stormwater treatment, erosion and sedimentation requirements, and all other identified constraints.

• Effectively manage external engineering partners.

• Lead collaborative analysis and review of projects, studies, and best practices with Global Engineering groups.

• Ensure project risks are identified, understood, and addressed prior to investment approval.

• Oversee quality aspects of engineering, including compliance with design standards and accuracy of documentation, field analysis and reporting, and test data.

• Contribute to development and maintenance of design standards and criteria for project infrastructure.

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders throughout project development to ensure that construction and operational requirements and lessons learned have been appropriately considered.

• Collaborate with the project execution team as needed for smooth transition from Development to Construction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent education; preference may be giving to candidates with relevant advanced degree(s).

• 5+ years of relevant experience.

• Professional Engineer (PE) registration and applicable field experience .

• Experience leading renewable energy projects and consultant/vendor selection, management, procurement, and contracting.

• Represents the organization in internal and external communications pertaining to broad-aspects of engineering assignments.

• Aptitude for agility during fluctuating development stages and strategies.

• Ability to analyze, review, and integrate many different engineering disciplines, such as electrical (transmission, substation, collection) and civil (grading, geotechnical, structural, roads, transportation) for different applications (PV, wind, BESS, hydrogen).

• Knowledge of various aspects of renewable projects such as turbine specifications, GSU design and selection, solar module and inverter selection, battery systems, and collector system, overhead collection, transmission, and substation designs.

• Working knowledge of renewable project contracting, construction, and EPC practices.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Google Earth, SAP, OPC, Visio, and AutoCAD.

• Preference may be given to candidates with expertise in one or more of the following areas:

  • Civil: BOP design, geotechnical investigation, structural analysis, road design.

  • High Voltage: Substation and/or transmission design and engineering.

  • Solar design proficiency in Rated Power, PVSyst, and other design tools.

  • Battery energy storage system development, analysis, engineering, and/or construction.

  • Wind repower development, analysis, engineering, and/or construction.

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Company:

AVANGRID RENEWABLES, LLC

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Job Posting End Date:

April-14-2025