Energy Engineer

Abraxas Energy Consulting, LLC, a subsidiary of Hillmann Consulting, LLC, is a nationwide energy auditing and consulting firm that provides energy assessments, training, and software tools to assist facilities in reducing energy and water waste. Together, Abraxas and Hillmann can provide customized Energy Analysis, Energy Accounting, Environmental Health and Safety, Remediation Support, Real Estate Due Diligence, Geotechnical, and Laboratory Analysis services.

Abraxas and Hillmann deliver consulting with an uncompromising commitment to customer service, safety, and increasing value and quality to our clients.

Abraxas has an immediate opening for an experienced Energy Engineer for nationwide coverage out of the Union, NJ area to lead facility energy and water assessments and provide other energy consulting services. Typical assignments will include leading on-site energy and water assessments, retro‑commissioning activities, field measurement and verification, and field diagnostic testing/deployment. The Energy Engineer is expected to be capable of leading an energy audit following ASHRAE’s Level 2 energy audit methodology for most facilities independently from start to finish.

However, the Energy Engineer is also expected to work in small teams when necessary on larger projects and to facilitate mentorship of more junior team members. This position requires a high level of individual initiative, responsibility, work ethic and time management skills to meet shifting and overlapping project deadlines. The work will involve regular interaction with clients in person, on the phone, and via email.

The Energy Engineer will work with team members to request information, solicit feedback, and clearly define project responsibilities is crucial. The Energy Engineer will also need to communicate with their peers and Project Managers regarding their schedule, roadblocks to their work, and additional support that may be required.

The tasks will range in complexity from one day walk thru site visits to investment grade energy audits to identify energy reduction opportunities in lighting, HVAC, building envelope, water, renewables, controls, and other energy and water using systems.

• Conduct/lead detailed energy surveys of facilities ranging from simple office or multifamily properties to complex high‑rise offices, manufacturing, and/or other energy intensive buildings.
• Lead building retro‑commissioning activities including functional performance testing and monitoring of equipment.
• Lead measurement and verification field work including visual verification, sampling strategies, and complex field measurements.
• Conduct energy audits.
• Adapt to varying field data collection techniques including handwritten notes, tablet‑based tools, photo logging, review of as‑built drawings, review of building control systems, use of measurement devices and hand tools, etc.
• Deploy field diagnostic equipment such as wireless monitoring systems, data loggers, flow meters, power loggers, multimeters, temperature devices, air flow meters, manometers, lighting meters, current transducers, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE), hand tools, etc.

• Keep current with new energy efficiency technologies and strategies.
• Analyze and evaluate results from measurements including interval energy data, lighting readings, etc.
• Interpret, and tabulate information from facility mechanical and electrical drawings such as lighting fixture counts, mechanical equipment ratings/locations, piping diagrams, etc.
• Interpret control strategies and sequences. Analyze and propose optimum strategies for all types of energy using equipment.
• Complete detailed energy allocations that predict with reasonable accuracy the breakdown of major energy users in a building.
• Evaluate operations and maintenance savings and estimate the cost to implement energy conservation measures.
• Exercise experience and research to scope energy improvements to building systems in detail and quantify accurate installed cost estimates.
• Communicate with and obtain vendor quotes for proposed improvements as needed.
• Complete life‑cycle cost analysis for energy…