Posting Title

Senior Research Operations Engineer

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Location

CO - Golden

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Position Type

Regular

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Hours Per Week

40

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Working at NREL

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for energy systems research and development.

Join the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), where world-class scientists, engineers, and experts are accelerating energy innovation through breakthrough research and systems integration. From our mission to our collaborative culture, NREL stands out in the research community for its commitment to an affordable and secure energy future. Spanning foundational science to applied systems engineering and analysis, we focus on solving complex challenges to deliver advanced, secure, reliable, and cost-effective energy solutions. Our work helps strengthen U.S. industries, support job creation, and promote national economic growth.

At NREL, you’ll find a mission-driven environment supported by state-of-the-art facilities, multidisciplinary research teams, and strong collaborations with industry, academia, and other national laboratories. We offer robust professional development opportunities, and a competitive benefits package designed to support your career and well-being.

Job Description

The Engineering Group at the NREL’s Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) seeks to fill a senior electrical engineering position in the laboratory research operations center.

The Engineering team at ESIF is composed of multi-disciplinary engineering professionals who design, operate, upgrade and maintain advanced, complex technical research capabilities that support research and development project work. ESIF engineering staff partner with research staff to carry out experimentation using laboratory assets and systems. ESIF engineering is responsible for the effective conduct of engineering to ensure safety and availability of advanced equipment and systems, which notably includes updated drawings, operational procedures, safety procedures, technical requirements, software environments and tools, and maintenance plans. The laboratory environment is collaborative, technically rich, and offers many learning and networking opportunities. The ESIF Operations Center manages and stewards use of the ESIF in support of DOE’s research mission to ensure a safe, operationally effective, technically advanced research facility. Employees with ESIF significantly contribute to the mission of advancing new and clean energy technologies to support a healthy and prosperous nation and world.

The position calls for a person capable of understanding complex research projects and complicated laboratory equipment. Success in this job includes proactive stewardship of the laboratory to maintain relevant advanced capabilities, technical support and resourcefulness, delivery of research project outcomes with partners, and significant contributions to a dynamic team. This job requires dominance of electrical engineering discipline, especially power systems, power electronics, grid controls, and advanced technical applications. This position calls for a person to handle physical setup, fabrication and troubleshooting, design experiments, accomplish project management tasks, deliver data capture,and function successfully in a team environment and as an individual performer.

This position calls for a motivated person with enthusiasm for the research mission, proven ability to coordinate and communicate across multiple teams, and a desire to deliver high quality laboratory engineering and technology. This position necessitates a person armed with strong technical skills to design, build, and implement laboratory research and capable to plan, coordinate, communicate and work in a team environment.

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Basic Qualifications

Researcher V:
Relevant PhD and 9 or more years of experience . Or, relevant Master's Degree and 12 or more years of experience . Or, relevant Bachelor's Degree and 14 or more years of experience . Apply advanced engineering technical principles, theories and concepts. Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts. Considered a national subject matter expert. Demonstrates leadership in a number of areas including all team, task and/or project lead responsibilities (works independently). Demonstrated management of complex and/or impactful projects. Excellent writing, interpersonal and communication skills.

Researcher IV:
Relevant PhD and 4 or more years of experience . Or, relevant Master's Degree and 7 or mor