Project Engineer

Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading energy solutions provider dedicated to helping customers reduce costs, enhance resilience, and decarbonize to net zero in the global energy transition. We are a trusted, full-service partner to public sector and government entities, K-12 schools, higher education, utilities, and healthcare customers across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Europe.

At Ameresco, we show the way by developing, constructing and operating tailored smart energy efficiency solutions, distributed energy resources, and infrastructure upgrades that drive cost savings, resilience, decarbonization, and innovation. Our comprehensive portfolio is built to address the challenges of today and adapt the future, ensuring long-term sustainability and success for our customers.

Job Description

Reporting to the Engineering Manager for the renewable business (principally focused on Solar Projects, Utility Scale and C&I), coordinated within the Project Team by a Project Manager, is responsible of the planning and the coordination of design activities from the technical economical offer to the project's conclusion, through the coordination of internal/external resources, ensuring targets in terms of HSE, Quality and Performance, and maintaining times and costs aligned to the assigned goal. Additionally, Project Engineers will support O&M for any technical aspects after the completion and the delivery of the project to the Client.

Main Responsibilities

• Management of technical advisors, services and engineering contracts during all project's phases, ensuring high standards of Quality and Safety, and the correct operability of the Plants,
• ensure from the technical/economical offer (supporting Sales Unit) the uniformity, coherence and consistency of the projects with client's requirements, internal design standards, respecting local regulations, constraints, permit's prescriptions and agreements with all third parties. Definition of the most appropriate technical solutions with the aim of guaranteeing the technical-economic feasibility of the projects, and at the same time optimizing the construction costs and the production of the plant,
• review Technical Specifications and Requirement from the Client to support Sales Unit in preparing the Technical Economical Offer: preparation of a preliminary Layout and Bill of Quantity to evaluate together with the Units involved (e.g. Procurement, Project Management, etc.) the total Cost for the Project.
• preparation of the Technical Specifications for the procurement of materials and works, and technical assessments of the bidders during the procurement process,
• definition and control of the schedule for design activities, providing inputs for the correct elaboration and updating of the General Project Program, and definition of the criteria for measuring the physical progress of the design,
• technical support to the Construction Manager during construction phases, and in the production of technical documents necessary for the grid connection of the plants.
• Support the other Project Engineers of other projects in reviewing and analysing project design, based on own competencies, speciality (mechanical, civil or electrical) and technical skills.
• Technical support to O&M Unit after the delivery of the project to the Client.

Requirements

• Education: Degree level qualification in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical or Civil).
• Experience: At least 3 years of experience in managing technical design of Renewable Energy Projects, and in reviewing and producing electrical/civil/mechanical calculation related to Solar and Storage projects.
• Technical Skills: Knowledge of renewable energy technical regulations and safety standards. Capability to produce and review electrical/civil/mechanical calculation (based on own qualification) related to Solar and Storage projects. Excellent application of Excell, Word, PowerPoint and AutoCAD.
• Soft Skills: Good Team Player, self-starter, problem solving and decision making, target oriented, excellent communication skills.

Languages: Fluency in English (written and verbal), other language will be an advantage

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