Project Engineer

Day to Day: The Project Engineer will serve as the liaison between developers and our client's interconnection team, ensuring projects run smoothly, on time, and that payments are made. Responsibilities include extensive documentation and communication, keeping our client, Evergreen, developers, and outsourced engineering companies aligned. Additionally, the Project Engineer will update our client's systems like Rio, Smartsheet, and SharePoint.

The Project Engineer will oversee generator interconnection studies, managing developer requests that can span multiple years, handling re-studies when developers change their data, and more. Key responsibilities include replicating work processes, ensuring all information presented to ERCOT is accurate, managing agreements with developers, and coordinating FIS studies, aiming to complete them within 6-7 months. The Project Engineer will act as a liaison with teams, ensuring developers meet deadlines and compliance requirements, and manage projects, deadlines, and KPIs.

Responsibilities:

Dedicate time slots with Interconnection Entities (IE)

Keep projects on track

Coordinate with contractors conducting the studies

Establish timelines for each project activity

Maintain progress in ERCOT's RIO tool

Maintain our client's SharePoint tracker

Resolve gaps in the progress of studies

Escalate issues as needed

Must Haves:

Bachelor's Degree in electrical engineering

Project management experience

Great communication skills as you will be interfacing with customers

Go getter personality

Technologically savvy

Plusses:

Experience with renewable energy resources

Generation and Transmission experience

Utility industry experience

Co-location experience

RTO experience

Expected Compensation:

Based on experienced but ranges from $30/hourly- $45/hourly