Engineer, Environmental Engineer

Airport Energy Engineer (5241) - SFO - PEX (158335)

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Department: San Francisco International Airport
Job class: 5241-Engineer
Salary range: $ - $
Role type: Permanent Exempt What does this mean?
Hours: Full-time

• Application Opening: Friday, August 15, 2025
• Final date to receive applications: Interested applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as this announcement may close at any time after 5:00 PM (PDT) on Friday, August 22, 2025.
• Annual Compensation Range: $169,806 - $206,414
• Position Status: Full-Time
• Recruitment IDs: PEX-
• Appointment Type: This is an Exempt position excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process, pursuant to the City and County of San Francisco, Charter Section 10.104. It is considered "at will" and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer. The duration of this appointment is up to 36 months.

Working at SFO

San Francisco International Airport (SFO), an enterprise department of the City and County of San Francisco, has a workforce of approximately 1,900 City employees and is committed to being a diverse, equitable, and inclusive employer.

SFO is more than an airport — we are a dynamic organization where employees collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders to support global travel, economic development, and public service. We are recognized as a leader in environmental sustainability, equity, and forward-thinking infrastructure, and continue to be at the forefront of transforming the travel experience.

Our mission is to deliver an airport experience where people and our planet come first.

Under general supervision, the Airport Energy Engineer will work cross-functionally across sustainability, engineering, finance, and facilities teams, to develop and implement airport-wide building and transport-related energy capital and software-analytics projects that enable the Airport to grow in a cost-effective, carbon-free, reliable and resilient way. This position will be SFO’s lead energy engineer, establishing standards and delivering key projects that reduce energy consumption, improve load management, activate renewable energy and energy storage solutions, and continuously monitor and improve all campus energy assets.

They will be required to develop data-driven, technical solutions to novel cross-organizational and complex energy problems in creative and effective ways.

You are excited about this opportunity because you will:

• Supervise and monitor the delivery, inspection, recommissioning, and performance monitoring of a wide variety of major and complex energy engineering projects, contracts, and related policies.
• Prioritize, plan, organize and coordinate capital, analytics, operating energy project activities, including the oversight of assets, onsite load management, and emergency and backup power sources.
• Prepare, review, analyze and supervise the preparation of proposals, bids and other documents, including advertisement for bids, instructions to bidders, contract bonds, among others for conformance with specifications, approval of final awarding of bids, and timely completion.
• Lead, direct, coach, train, counsel, a diverse technical team, and organize and supervise the activities of field inspection staff to maximize and maintain a positive and productive work environment.
• Negotiate contracts and contract modifications and resolve claims and disputes.
• Review, evaluate, interpret and adhere to federal, regional and local legislation, technical materials, research reports, scientific studies and established policies and procedures affecting engineering work. Summarize these source materials for leadership and incorporate into Airport Standards and projects, where applicable, to consistently improve the energy efficiency, energy storage and/or renewable energy generation potential of new projects and retrofits.
• Review and inform engineering designs, drawings and specifications, and perform calculations to ensure compliance with requirements and project objectives.
• Supervise the preparation of cost estimates of labor, equipment, and materials, consulting with Project Management, Engineering and Facilities Staff to validate technical documentation and cost estimates.
• Assess all projects post-commissioning to ensure building performance is maintained over the asset life. Building asset performance must be presented to the Capital Team no less than 1-year post commissioning, as data is available.
• Analyze project budget and workload to meet engineering project demands and solve complex engineering and process related problems in the field and in the office, including the use of broader full-cost financial metrics that calculate total cost of ownership, triple-bottom-line cost benefits to inform and justify future Cap Ex and OpEx investments.
• Promote and maintain productive working relationships with co-workers, subordinates, department heads, members of Boards,…