Engineering Manager

1. Team Leadership and Development

• Provide strategic leadership to the development engineering team, fostering a collaborative, organized, and high-performing work environment.
• Recruitment & Talent Acquisition:
  Oversee the hiring process to build a team of skilled and qualified engineering professionals.
• Training & Growth:
  Identify training needs and implement development programs to enhance team capabilities and support career progression
• Succession Planning:
  Identify and develop high-potential team members for future leadership roles, ensuring continuity and long-term team strength.
• Performance Management:
  Conduct regular “check-ins” with team members as well as semi-annual performance evaluations, offering constructive feedback and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Quarterly Planning & Team Building:
  Organize and lead quarterly on-site gatherings to strengthen team cohesion and align departmental goals.
• Subject Matter Expertise & Design Guidance:
  Serve as a technical mentor and subject matter expert, offering hands‑on design guidance, coaching, and support to ensure engineering excellence and professional growth.
• Assist in the development of workflows for the engineering team and company.

• Development Engineering:
  Manage technical strategy throughout the development lifecycle balancing design, energy production, Cap Ex, constructability, permitting, interconnection, schedule, and overall project economics.
• Engineering Standards & Quality Control:
  Establish and maintain design standards for development drawings and production models to ensure quality and alignment with company objectives.
• Process Standardization:
  Develop and implement standardized workflows and documentation practices (SOPs) to ensure consistency and efficiency across engineering projects.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with internal teams—including land acquisition, interconnection, permitting, real estate, and finance—to deliver critical engineering inputs.
• Workload & Task Management:
  Oversee team workload by assigning tasks, setting priorities, and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality outputs, while empowering engineers to share task delegation and project oversight to promote ownership and leadership development
• Resource Planning:
  Forecast and manage resource needs—including personnel, tools, and budget—to support current and future project demands.
• KPI Development & Reporting:
  Define, track, and report key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure team effectiveness and communicate progress to leadership. Examples of KPIs include but are not limited to:
  Average days to close tasks by each engineer and tasks complete per week/month/6 months by engineer.
• Project Transition Oversight:
  Ensure seamless handoff of projects from development engineering to project management/construction, supporting long-term project success by checking the design basis, permitting conditions, interconnection requirements, equipment assumptions, constructability, and outstanding technical risks.
• External engineering/EOR management:
  Develop and manage preferred external engineers, manage scopes, budgets, schedules, quality, and deliverables for outside civil, electrical, structural, geotechnical, or other engineering consultants as needed.
• Interconnection support:
  Manage technical requirements and risks coming out of the interconnection process and ensure they are incorporated into the design.
• Other duties and responsibilities as requested.

• Knowledge of battery storage systems and experience integrating BESS into layouts, SLDs, equipment selection, and interconnection strategy.
• Process Optimization:
  Champion continuous improvement initiatives by integrating new technologies and best practices to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and project outcomes.
• Process Automation:
  Evaluate and implement software, automation tools and workflows to reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and accelerate project deliverable timelines.
• Value Engineering & Cost Optimization:
  Lead initiatives focused on applying value engineering principles early in development, optimizing equipment selection,…