Technical Services Engineer

Location: St. Petersburg

Technical Services Engineer

Job Description

Position Type: Full-Time

Travel Requirement: Regular site travel; based remotely

Job Location: Multistate

About Us

National Electrical Engineering Commissioning (NEEC) provides full-service engineering and field support for utilities and renewable developers across the United States. Our core expertise includes Protection & Control (P&C) Substations, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), Solar, and Renewable Energy Integration. NEEC’s commissioning team ensures that every system operates safely, efficiently, and in compliance with the highest industry standards.

About the Role

The Technical Services Engineer is the technical backbone of BESS Technical Services, applying NEEC's technical expertise to each customer's project. The role builds the technical side of RFQs, researches technical questions, and is the escalation point for field engineers and crews: it supports testing and energization, reviews test results, solves technical problems, and helps develop the field leads and technicians who do the work.

Position

Details

• Reports to: Director of BESS Operations.
• Direct reports: None at hire; may lead engineers on assigned sites.
• Career level: Engineer track; part of BESS Technical Services.
• Travel: Regular travel to assigned sites for testing, energization and audits; based remotely.
• Pay: Competitive, based on experience.

Safety Responsibilities

• Stop work authority: stop any task you believe is unsafe, and back up anyone who stops work.
• Follow and enforce NEEC's technical safety requirements for testing and energization, including LOTO, energized-work permits, NFPA 70E approach boundaries, red rope and barricade rules, and battery hazards such as thermal runaway, off-gassing and stranded energy.
• Do not start energization or startup until readiness, LOTO and protection checks are signed off.
• Confirm crews on assigned sites have a qualified field lead, at least two people on site, and the training and certifications required for the task.
• Report incidents and near misses with a technical cause the same day, and support the root-cause review.

Key Responsibilities

• Field engineering support: Provide day-to-day technical support to field engineers and crews on assigned sites or a region: help plan the test sequence, confirm prerequisites and keep testing on schedule.
• Apply NEEC standards: Apply NEEC's commissioning standard, procedures and acceptance criteria on every assigned site, and flag gaps to the Director of BESS Operations.
• Customer and OEM requirements: Review each customer's and OEM's requirements before mobilization; brief crews on what's different and make sure the right forms and test methods are used.
• Procedures: Draft and update commissioning and test procedures, checklists and forms for approval by the Director of BESS Operations.
• Test quality: Review test results and turnover packages for assigned sites for accuracy and completeness before submission.
• Energization and hot commissioning: Lead or support energization, hot commissioning, capacity and performance testing on assigned sites, working with OEM reps and the customer.
• Troubleshooting and escalation: Act as the technical escalation for field leads on assigned sites; drive root cause and elevate unresolved issues to the Director of BESS Operations.
• Field lead development: Coach field leads and technicians; assess candidates against the field lead qualification standard and recommend them to the Director of BESS Operations.
• Training: Deliver technical training (OEM, test equipment, procedures) to crews, and keep crew qualifications current for assigned sites.
• Test equipment: Confirm crews on assigned sites have the right, calibrated test equipment for each scope.
• Site audits: Perform site audits…