Project Development Engineer

The base salary for this position is dependent upon experience and location:

Portland, OR (Salary range: $78,091.00 to $97,614.00)

Austin, TX (Salary range: $78,091.00 to $107,375.00)

Boston, MA (Saalry range: $89,804.00 to $112,256.00

**(Please note that relocation is required to one of these locations)

Work model: Office

The Project Development Engineer is responsible for supporting, conducting, and organizing early-stage engineering scopes associated with the development of utility-scale onshore wind (greenfield/repower), solar, and battery storage projects. In close collaboration with the Development Engineering Lead and project team, this person will focus on supporting completion of preliminary engineering to pace with overall project development, contractor bidding, project investment approval, and transition to Projects Engineering for execution. In addition to conceptual and practical renewables development engineering knowledge and experience, the successful candidate will have a proven track-record of using engineering analysis to reach sound conclusions and recommendations relative to project performance and profitability.

• Serve as engineering technical interface with key Avangrid stakeholder teams, including Development & Origination, Environmental & Permitting, Transmission/Interconnect, Capital Estimating, Scheduling, Meteorology, Project Engineering, and Project Management, to advance development projects to investment approval.
• Direct electrical and civil design basis, scope documentation, engineering and design of preliminary transmission, substation, and balance of plant design for wind, PV, and BESS projects.
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary design reviews and optimization while identifying cost and other value engineering opportunities. 
• Support transmission interconnection planning, contracting, and transmission owner coordination.  Manage electrical studies to define electrical parameters of the project and components, including review and input into interconnection study reports, and definition of grid integration and interconnection requirements.
• Coordinate engineering with permitting requirements to ensure designs respect wetlands, sensitive areas, stormwater treatment, erosion and sedimentation requirements, and all other identified constraints.
• Effectively manage external engineering partners.
• Support collaborative analysis and review of projects, studies, and best practices with Global Engineering groups.
• Ensure project risks are identified, understood, and addressed prior to investment approval.
• Oversee quality aspects of engineering, including compliance with design standards and accuracy of documentation, field analysis and reporting, and test data.
• Contribute to development and maintenance of design standards and criteria for project infrastructure.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders throughout project development to ensure that construction and operational requirements and lessons learned have been appropriately considered.
• Support the project execution team as needed for efficient transition from Development to Construction.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent education; preference may be giving to candidates with relevant advanced degree(s).
• Professional Engineer (PE) registration and applicable field experience preferred.
• Experience supporting renewable energy projects and consultant/vendor selection, management, procurement, and contracting.

• Effective communication skills to articulate technical concepts.
• Aptitude for agility during fluctuating development stages and strategies.
• Ability to analyze, review, and integrate many different engineering disciplines, such as electrical (transmission, substation, collection) and civil (grading, geotechnical, structural, roads, transportation) for different applications (PV, wind, BESS, hydrogen).
• Knowledge of various aspects of renewable projects such as turbine specifications, GSU design and selection, solar module and inverter selection, battery systems, and collector system, overhead collection, transmission, and substation designs.
• Working knowledge of renewable energy industry construction practices.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Google Earth, OPC, and Visio.
• Preference may be given to candidates with expertise in one or more of the following areas:
  • Civil: BOP design, geotechnical investigation, structural analysis, road design.
  • High Voltage: Substation and/or transmission design and engineering.
  • Solar design proficiency in Rated Power, PVSyst, CAD, and oth