Project Engineer

Assignment Summary

This temporary Project Engineer will support the Project Manager and engineering team in coordinating technical activities for utility-scale renewable energy projects.

The assignment is execution-focused and will help track engineering deliverables, coordinate technical reviews, manage design interfaces, support procurement and construction, and drive closure of technical actions and field issues.

This is a hands-on contract assignment intended to add near-term engineering capacity.

The individual will work within established company standards, project governance, approval authorities, and technical requirements.

The position is based in Downtown Houston with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.

Travel to project sites may be required.

Primary Responsibilities

• Support development and maintenance of basis-of-design documents, technical requirements, design criteria, specifications, and engineering deliverable registers.
• Coordinate technical inputs and interfaces among EPC contractors, OEMs, consultants, engineers of record, Owner’s Engineer, internal subject-matter experts, and the Project Manager.
• Track engineering deliverables, design reviews, comments, technical risks, RFIs, deviations, action items, and due dates through resolution.
• Review civil, structural, electrical, SCADA, interconnection, and commissioning documents for alignment with project requirements, applicable codes, and company standards, within the individual’s area of competence.
• Prepare engineering status updates and clearly escalate overdue deliverables, unresolved interfaces, design gaps, and technical risks.
• Support RFP technical packages, technical exhibits, vendor data requirements, bidder clarifications, technical bid evaluations, and recommendation documentation.
• Support or participate in EPC, equipment-supply, and technical contract negotiations, including review of technical scope, assumptions, exclusions, deviations, interfaces, and deliverable requirements.
• Coordinate survey, geotechnical, GIS, environmental, permitting, utility, and interconnection inputs required for design development.
• Support constructability reviews and coordinate RFIs and field engineering issues with Construction, EPC contractors, OEMs, and engineers of record.
• Provide technical support during procurement, construction, startup, commissioning, testing, performance verification, and operational turnover.
• Support change-management reviews by organizing technical records, assessing the engineering basis, and identifying potential scope, cost, schedule, or performance implications for review by the accountable project team.
• Maintain organized engineering records, meeting minutes, technical correspondence, submittal logs, as-built documentation, warranty information, and turnover packages.
• Capture lessons learned and support improvements to engineering templates, standards, review workflows, and project execution practices.

Required Qualifications

• Legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer. Sponsorship is not available for this assignment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Civil, Mechanical, or a related engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience supporting energy, power, infrastructure, industrial, or large capital projects.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering deliverables and working with contractors, consultants, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of design reviews, technical specifications, vendor documentation, RFIs, change management, construction support, and project closeout.
• Practical familiarity with applicable engineering codes and standards relevant to the assigned discipline.
• Ability to organize technical information, identify gaps and interfaces, drive action closure, and communicate issues clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to manage priorities across multiple workstreams.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and common engineering, document-control, project-management, or collaboration tools.

Experience

• Utility-scale solar, wind, battery storage, substation, transmission, or interconnection experience.
• Experience supporting or participating in EPC, equipment-supply, and technical contract negotiations is highly desirable.
• Exposure to EPC procurement, technical bid evaluations, contractor deviations, commissioning, performance testing, and operational turnover.
• Experience with engineering or power-system tools such as PVSyst, ETAP, SKM, PSCAD, PSSE, AutoCAD, or similar platforms, as applicable to the assignment.
• Familiarity with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Power BI, Procore, SAP, Oracle, or similar project platforms.
• Professional Engineer license or progress toward licensure is desirable but not required.