Associate Director – Performance Engineering
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Associate Director overseeing BESS performance engineering, asset management, and contract compliance. Leading teams and technology services for renewable energy facilities.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee fulfillment of technical requirements for Asset Management contracts and consulting services
- Define team direction
- Develop, resource, and manage large-scope and long-term projects, making resource, scope, and delivery tradeoffs
- Review work products and progress to ensure success
- Facilitate meetings with external stakeholders and cross-functional teams
- Resolve issues within and across teams
- Mentor team members and lower-level managers
- Establish and assure adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance requirements
- Develop compensation planning, career coaching, and training, and administer company policies for the team
- Drive cross-functional team improvement initiatives and propose updates to team policies and SOPs
- Support development of strategic directions within the team
- Oversee development of new technology services, including processes, procedures, AI tools, and required software updates
- Lead and oversee technical asset management activities for BESS projects, including operational performance, availability, warranty review, degradation analysis, and coordination with OEMs, operators, and internal stakeholders
- Review monthly and annual invoicing calculation support documentation against energy contracts to validate required calculations and metrics
Requirements:
- 4-8 years management experience
- Proven documentation, presentation, and communication skills with working teams and senior level management, CEOs, and boards of directors
- University Degree (or equivalent) with 8+ years domain experience
- Experience managing utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects, including operations, performance monitoring, contract compliance, and technical issue resolution
- Masters/Graduate and 6+ years domain experience
- Proven ability to set direction and drive large cross-functional teams to success
- Able to work as part of a larger team
- Proven success in personnel management, coaching, and mentoring
- Proven ability to liaise with clients/internal management on significant issues requiring high-level management intervention
- Root cause analysis and process improvement
- Big-picture thinking that drives teams to meet organizational goals and provides cross-functional improvements
- Proven project and people management skills
- Working knowledge of BESS operational performance drivers, including availability, round-trip efficiency, capacity degradation, augmentation planning, safety considerations, and root cause analysis for equipment or controls-related issues
- Expertise in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe PDF toolsets


















