Principal/Senior Battery Storage Maintenance Engineer

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Principal/Senior Battery Storage Maintenance Engineer

Summary

As a Battery Storage Maintenance Engineer, you'll ensure the smooth and efficient operation of our battery plants, handling everything from maintenance planning and troubleshooting to supporting new projects. You'll play a key role in refining our processes, engaging with industry experts, and contributing to the growth of our energy storage capabilities. This position offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of the clean energy transition, working with cutting-edge technology and helping shape the future of energy storage.

We're hiring for a position open to both principal and senior level candidates. The level will be determined based on the successful applicant's qualifications, experience, and demonstrated skills during the interview process.

Key Responsibilities

Senior:

1. Engineer Standards: Maintains currency in state-of-the-art engineering practices and provides guidance and direction on engineering processes and standards to colleagues when requested.
2. Engineering Production: Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for larger or multiple projects; coordinates multiple discipline activity.
3. Project Coordination: Actively coordinates with other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects, including representing the team to interdepartmental and external (regulatory) stakeholders.
4. Knowledge Sharing: Serves as a technical specialist and provides consultation/guidance to project teams in a particular practice area; actively fosters knowledge management and provides mentoring.

Principal:

1. Engineer Standard: Maintains currency in state-of-the-art engineering practices and discerns the need for and provides guidance and direction to colleagues on engineering processes and standards.
2. Engineering Production: Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for larger or multiple projects, including establishing work plans to be applied.
3. Project Coordination: Actively coordinates with other internal/external team members on complex projects, representing the team to internal and external stakeholders.
4. Knowledge Sharing: Actively advances knowledge management of the enterprise and provides mentoring; participates in professional societies and technical committees.

Qualifications

Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering. ABET accredited engineering program or program accredited by an equivalent agency preferred.

Senior: Typically, five or more years in engineering, or four years in engineering with a Professional Engineering (PE) license.

Principal: Typically, eight or more years in engineering.

Professional Engineering (PE) license strongly preferred; may be required based upon role.

Driver's license: Required

Competencies

Advanced/Expert knowledge of engineering and economic principles and concepts.

Physical, Schedule/Attendance and Cognitive Demands

Cognitive Level: Substantial: Consistent use of logic or scientific thinking to define problems, collect information, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.

Schedule/Attendance:

Ability to adhere to pre-established schedule, including start/stop time and break/lunch schedule.

PGE supports hybrid flexible work arrangements; and will have a combination of in-the-office and working offsite. However, these arrangements may change due to business needs or changes in responsibility.

Compensation Range: $96,300.00 - $189,875.00

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