Lead Commissioning Engineer

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Remote, US

2 days ago Requisition

Lydian is an established energy development company specializing in the development and construction of utility-scale solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in North America. Lydian owns 14 assets in development, construction or under operation, consisting of both solar and storage, which reached or are expected to reach FNTP from .

Lydian is backed by Excelsior Energy Capital (“EEC”), a leading private equity fund manager with more than $1.5B in assets under management, that is exclusively focused on north American middle market renewables investing. Lydian’s relationship with EEC provides several critical advantages, including access to (i) a specialized team of value-add investor-operators with decades of renewables development, construction, and transaction experience and (ii) committed discretionary equity capital, strong relationships with debt and tax equity investors, and deep experience structuring tax equity and project financings.

The Lead Commissioning Engineer will provide technical guidance and project support during the construction and commissioning stages for utility scale photovoltaic and BESS power plants across the United States. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual with experience managing multiple concurrent projects and resources from a technical perspective through many phases of the project lifecycle.

This is a multi-faceted role that involves project-level technical diligence, optimization, project development engineering, construction support, risk analysis, and project management skills.

• Develop and coordinate commissioning schedules, responsibilities, and procedures with EPC and OEM partners to support overall project schedule. Analyze each party’s commissioning scope to ensure no gap or overlap between parties.
• Oversee the commissioning process and activities both off- and on-site as needed, including travel to project sites for inspections and general support.
• Track commissioning progress for each project against established schedule and provide status visibility for items ahead of or behind schedule.
• Oversee integration testing between the substation, BESS plant controls, PCS interfaces, metering, utility/ISO interfaces, and Lydian operations systems, ensuring vendors close all interface gaps prior to energization.
• Support EPC and OEMs during execution of commissioning test procedures
• Lead engineering and commissioning meetings with EPC, OEM, SCADA integrator, and P&C integrator.
• Review EPC substation commissioning report and BOP and OEMs (BESS and PCS) commissioning reports.
• Review relay trip events.
• Audit the EPC and the OEM in the execution of the capacity testing (PV and/or BESS) required to achieve Substantial Completion, including coordination of the EPC, BESS and PCS OEMs and PPC/EMPS provider.
• Support the coordination between the EPC and Compliance department ensuring all the required inputs and RFIs are available to the Compliance Consultant and in the required clarifications to get NERC-FAC-008, NERC-PRC
  019/025/028 and 029 studies approval.
• Proactively identify and elevate commissioning blockers, missing prerequisites, design gaps, settings discrepancies, integration risks, schedule risks, and safety concerns, with recommended corrective actions and ownership.
• Lead the preparation and execution of the required grid codes testing to achieve Commercial Operation (reactive power testing, PFR, Automatic Voltage Control testing) including coordination of the EPC, BESS and…