Engineering Manager

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 Title:

Engineering Manager

Role Scope

Reporting to the Head of Renewable Energy Operations, principally focused on Photovoltaic Projects (Utility Scale and C&I) and BESS, within a Matrix organization (Projects/Functions) is responsible to coordinate a team of Project Engineers and technical specialists, ensuring targets in terms of HSE, Quality and Performance, and maintaining times and costs aligned to the assigned goal. Additionally, the Engineering Manager will work together with Sales Unit and O&M for any technical aspects during the Commercial Phase (before the Project’s execution) and after the project’s completion and the final delivery of the project to the Client.

Main Responsibilities

• Oversee and lead the Engineering Team composed by Project Engineers and Technical Specialist, leading and monitoring renewable project’s design during all project’s phases, from the Technical Economical Offers until the Project’s Energization, and ensuring all designs meet Safety, Quality and Regulatory requirements,
• Coordinate Project Engineers and Technical Specialist activities regarding workload, priorities, and alignment to internal procedures,
• define the right strategy to execute design activities, establish and update engineering specifications, quality control plans, implement methodologies, process and tools to support the project’s engineering activities, hiring and motivate Project Engineers, Technical Specialist and external support (where needed),
• ensure project’s engineering deliverable are completed on time, and within budget, with high quality Standard,
• Support the Project Engineers in their daily activities on project:

• technical/economical offer preparation in coordination with Sales Unit ensuring the uniformity, coherence and consistency of the projects with all the stakeholder’s requirements,
• technical Specification definition for the procurement of equipment and works,
• ensure from the technical/economic offer the uniformity, coherence and consistency of the projects with client’s requirements, internal design standards, local regulations, constraints, permit 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 and operational costs and the production of the plant,
• plan and control the execution and physical progress of the definitive, executive and constructive design through the coordination of external services and internal resources,
• define and validate Design Changes analyzing any impact on Project Results (Time, Costs, etc.)
• technical support to the Construction, Commissioning and O&M activities,

• Coordinate with Procurement Units meetings with suppliers and contractors, evaluating long terms agreement on engineering services to maintain flexibility and scalability of the Engineering Activities,
• Technological Scouting to continuously propose technical innovation and ensure project’s feasibility and cost optimization.

Requirements

• Education: Master’s degree level qualification in Engineering.
• Experience: +10 years of working experience and minimum 5 years of experience in managing technical design of Renewable Energy Projects, and Interconnection’s Desing, with a proven track record on Solar and Storage projects.
• Technical Skills: Knowledge of renewable energy technical regulations and safety standards. Excellent application of Excell, Word, PowerPoint, AutoCAD and PVSyst.
• Soft Skills: Team Management, Leadership, Good Team Player, problem solving and decision making, target oriented, excellent communication skills, high level of organization and time management.
• Languages: Fluent Italian and professional working proficiency in English (written and verbal).

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