Sr. Project Engineer - Renewable Energy & Energy Storage

Senior Project Engineer-Renewable Energy & Energy Storage – Cortland, New York Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions to many of the world’s top-recognized brands and companies, is actively seeking a Senior Project Engineer to join our Electrical team in Cortland, New York.  Intertek's Electrical business line applies more than 100 years of product testing expertise to quickly and efficiently help clients meet safety, performance, environmental and quality requirements for every market.

Spanning a wide range of industries such as Medical, Lighting, Renewable Energy, HVACR, Appliances & Electronics, Hazardous Locations, Industrial Equipment, Life Safety & Security, IT & Telecom Equipment, Intertek's global network of laboratories employ world-class experts in their fields who deliver quality, accurate testing and certification that continually exceeds our clients' expectations and helps to clear a path for their product's success.

Intertek is continually innovating and evolving to reduce risk for consumers, brands and organizations in every sector and industry around the world.

We go beyond Testing, Inspection and Certification of products: we are a Total Quality Assurance Provider to industries worldwide.

Our

Purpose:

Bringing quality, safety, and sustainability to life.

What are we looking for?

The Senior Project Engineer-Renewable Energy & Energy Storage is responsible for independently performing testing and evaluation on a variety of products to the provisions of U.S., Canadian and other International product safety standards, writing reports and communicating with clients. This position is also responsible for providing local expertise in one or more product categories and mentoring and training less senior technical personnel.

This position has the potential for 50% travel.

Salary & Benefits Information The base wage or salary range for this position is $90k - $110k. Individual compensation packages are based on a variety of factors unique to each candidate including skill set, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons.  In addition to competitive compensation packages, when working with Intertek you can expect benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k) with company match, generous vacation / sick time (PTO), tuition reimbursement and more.

What you’ll do:

Read and determine applicability of national codes and standards clauses for the EUT (equipment under test).Read and understand electrical and mechanical schematics and manufacturing instructions. Read and understand client-provided or otherwise published performance or product safety standards. Validate the project scope and sample applicability.

Under scope of the project, identify and locate test instruments and equipment required for testing.

Set up and operate EUT; perform and document simple repairs on EUT as needed.

Perform certification, testing work including but not limited to Batteries, BESS (Battery Energy Storage Systems), Combiner Boxes, On Grid & Off-Grid Inverters, DC-DC Convertors, PV Modules. Conduct construction review, create evaluation reports and test plans, conduct and/or witness testing, resolve technical and/or administrative issues to power electronics standards. May set up and operate standard test equipment including but not limited to:
Temperature/Humidity Chambers;
Programmable Power Supplies; PLC or other controllers; pneumatic, hydraulic, or electric actuators; AC/DC power supplies and loads; oscilloscope; multi-meter; dielectric strength tester; ground continuity tester; digital multi-meter; surge generator; over-voltage tester; environmental condition chamber; and articulated probes. Use hand tools to build/calibrate test fixtures.…