Senior Energy Managment Engineer

Puget Sound Energy is looking to grow our community with top talented individuals like you!  With our rapidly growing, award winning energy efficiency programs, our pathway to an exciting and innovative future is now.

 

PSE's Customer Energy Mgmt & Renewables team is looking for qualified candidates to fill an open Senior Energy Managment Engineer position!

Specific details regarding the work arrangements for this position will be discussed in further detail during the interview process.

Job Description

Puget Sound Energy is looking for a Senior Energy Management Engineer to support our CEM Strategic Planning, Evaluation, and Research Team. You will perform technical analysis and research to inform program enhancements and measure impacts, manage and implement all phases of consultant and internal analysis on customer efficiency upgrades, including impact and process evaluations, and lead process improvements in all phases of customer projects and programs. Our team’s responsibility is to use robust evaluation, measurement and verification techniques to establish reliable energy savings and validate they are delivering those savings in customer’s homes and businesses.

 

You will be responsible for negotiations with and oversight of outside consultants and contractors, managing scope and budgets, and involved in customer and program projects with technical complexity and initial identification and development of programs, including budgets and savings targets. Your work will span both the residential and commercial markets, as well as electric and gas fuel types.

 

You will support the growing focus on customer decarbonization which includes supporting pilots, new company initiatives, legislative and regulatory assistance, non-pipe and non-wire analysis, and more. In addition, supporting evaluation, analysis and pilots for flexible loads are on the horizon.

 

You will uphold the safety compliance standards inherent in PSE’s operating and/or field procedures related to work responsibilities and promote and support a culture of safety first.

Job Responsibilities

• Provides technical and project management leadership to customer projects to produce sustainable energy savings by performing or overseeing Energy audits of building energy systems including: review of facility energy-usage patterns; detailed analyses of complex efficiency measures including energy use modeling; the applicability and recommendations of measures for achieving greater energy efficiency of measures to customer facilities and operations; final inspection of completed projects; and end-use monitoring of electrical loads with data analysis. Is a subject matter expert in electrical or mechanical aspects of energy efficiency and mentors others in their field of expertise. Is a lead for program planning and leads efficiency programs.
• Provides exceptional customer service by managing customer expectations by clearly communicating status and next steps.
• Identifies, evaluates, develops, and implements market-centric programs and related tariffs to produce sustainable energy savings more effectively by identifying barriers and developing solutions.
• Implements projects and programs while ensuring compliance of all tariffs and all financial procedures, develops new and revised department policy proposals to increase effectiveness of programs and services.
• Markets efficiency programs to eligible customers and various organizations.
• Maintains positive contractor relationship to ensure positive project development and follow-through.
• Provides technical expertise to others with in the Company, assists in the development of the efficiency supply curves analysis.
• Oversees the work of and consults with other energy engineers on technical, regulatory policy and financial analyses.
• Monitors the development and market acceptability of new energy technologies.
• Supports emergency response work as requested.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree or PE license in electrical, mechanical, civil or other appropriate engineering field.
• Substantial experience in energy efficiency project planning, design, specification review, technical field work, project cost estimating (typically achieved after 8 or more years practice as a degreed engineer).  Years of acquired experience is provided as a guide and alone does not constitute readiness for job level as individual’s skill acquisition rates can vary significantly.
• Subject matter expert in electrical or mechanical aspects of energy efficiency
• Demonstrated project and/or program management skills managing energy efficiency projects
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills
• Ability to work effective