Director, Project Engineering

Overview

Company Overview

Pattern Energy is a leading renewable energy company that develops, constructs, owns, and operates high-quality wind and solar generation, transmission, green fuels and energy storage facilities. Our mission is to transition the world to renewable energy through the sustainable development and responsible operation of facilities with respect for the environment, communities, and cultures where we have a presence.

Our approach begins and ends with establishing trust, accountability, and transparency. Our company values of creative spirit, pride of ownership, follow-through, and a team-first attitude driveusto pursue our mission every day. Our culture supports our values by fostering innovative and critical thinking and a deep belief in living up to our promises.

Headquartered inSan Francisco,Pattern hasa portfolio of 30power facilities and transmission assets across North America, serving various customers that provide low-cost clean energy to millions of consumers.

Job Purpose

The purpose of the Director, Project Engineering, is to manage and direct a team of engineers that are focused on projects that include wind plants, solar plants, battery energy storage systems (BESS) and associated gen-tie and substations. The project engineering team is responsible for identifying and managing engineering design processes, managing third party consultants and contractors, providing technical guidance during contractor selection process, performing design reviews to improve performance and cost of such installations with the aim of repeatable designs in the future, and providing support during commissioning.

The design work covers medium voltage feeders, high voltage substations, high voltage gen-ties, main power transformers, control and protection schemes, SCADA, metering, and other associated systems related to utility scale wind, solar energy plants and BESS. The work also involves providing technical guidance to Pre-Construction, Operations Engineering, Compliance, Construction, and Asset Management teams within Pattern. The Project Engineering group is critical in guiding and managing engineering design through various phases of a project from development through construction and commissioning.

The Director, Project Engineering, is responsible for defining the team and project goals and outlining appropriate processes and procedures for the work the group performs on a daily basis.

This position is critical to assist Pattern in realizing our mission to Transition the World to Renewable Energy.

Key Accountabilities

The key responsibilities will include as a minimum the following:

• Lead a diverse engineering team of high voltage electrical engineers and specialists
• Drive continuous improvement of managing engineering design processes
• Evaluate resource requirements considering on-going projects and future project pipeline and allocate resources to various projects to ensure the needs for engineering support of both pre-construction and construction teams are satisfied
• Identify resource requirements based on current and future projects and recruit project engineering staff
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert and oversee a team of engineers to support the pre-construction and construction teams, while managing a collection of outside subject matter expert consultants to assist as needed
• Evaluate, and assist in finding resolution to technical issues in projects with the support of Subject Matter Experts and external consultants
• Drive the development and implementation of efficient project engineering processes with the aim of achieving repeatable designs
• Interface and provide technical guidance to other groups within Pattern such as Operations Engineering, Development, Compliance, and Asset Management during different phase of projects, as needed
• Provide or manage engineering resources to identify and ensure regulatory compliance requirements, particularly NERC compliance, are captured in the design
• Lead the interface with lender’s independent engineers when necessary to address technical issues throughout design and construction phase.

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