Senior Engineering Consultant

Job Summary

Identifies, advocates for, and advises on energy efficiency improvements in new construction and existing industrial, commercial, and multi-family buildings and facilities. Participates in the development and delivery of cost-effective, market-based energy efficiency solutions to clients while contributing to a mission-driven, creative, enjoyable, and stimulating Certified Great Place to Work environment.

This position is focused on reducing electricity demand and energy consumption for American Municipal Power communities and serves a customer base in Delaware with travel to customer sites.

This is a remote position, and the ideal candidate will be located in Delaware. The work location is a hybrid between the employee’s home office and customer sites (there is no corporate office location in Delaware).

• Performs and presents insightful, strategically targeted custom energy and financial analysis for customers.
• Builds and maintains strategic relationships with customer decision-makers and implementation staff to develop project energy savings goals in a manner that leads to consistent repeat business. Utilizes investigative questioning to successfully determine how best to proceed with a variety of customers.
• Works with a wide range of customers and partners, including business owners, architects, engineers, vendors, and trade allies, to promote the installation of cost-effective efficiency improvements in customers’ future and existing buildings/facilities, and to creatively overcome barriers to installation.
• Plays an active role in identifying innovative technical solutions for electrical energy savings leveraging knowledge in new technical products, process improvements, and technological opportunities and occasionally presents to staff about these. Informs methods to analyze savings for new types of energy efficiency opportunities.
• Manages customer expectations, persuades customers to make investments in energy efficiency, and contributes to customer engagement strategy.
• Works with customers to identify and prioritize site‑specific project needs and opportunities, develop customer relationships, manage customer expectations, and inspect installed efficiency measures. Consistently collaborates with long‑term customers to incorporate opportunities into customer’s planning process.
• Leads teams to meet client deliverables while supporting and collaborating with other organizational staff to deliver services. For example: researching new products and technologies, identifying and implementing improvements to our processes and procedures, presenting at industry conferences, and assisting with development of training for clients and internal staff.
• Maintains accurate and timely project records and documentation within VEIC’s database system.
• Provides exemplary customer service both internally and externally to the organization.
• Provides guidance to less experienced Engineering staff, generally on a one-to-one basis.
• Provides consulting services pertaining to equipment and facility energy use for multi-family, commercial, and industrial customers. Services include site inspections, building and systems diagnostics, and oral and written feedback and recommendations.
• Provides training, field mentoring for less-experienced staff, and guidance to customers and relevant market actors.
• Provides public presentations relating to multifamily, commercial, and industrial building and facility energy efficiency to various audiences.
• Assists customers to develop project specifications, solicit contractor submittals, evaluate proposals, and participate in pre-bid meetings for projects as appropriate.
• Reviews other Engineering Consultant savings calculations and authorizes incentives following established protocols.
• Performs on-site inspections which may include measuring dimensions of building components, verification of installed heating, cooling, and/or ventilation systems, diagnostic testing, and collecting and recording data.
• Analy building energy efficiency levels using modeling software or through other accepted tools and provides reports and documents as well as oral and written…