Electrical Engineer Manager

•Lead, mentor, and motivate a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment. •Set clear performance goals, provide regular feedback, and conduct performance evaluations. •Guide the professional development of team members, identifying training needs and supporting their growth. •Promote effective communication, knowledge sharing, and teamwork among team members and other departments. •Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of engineering projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. •Collaborate with stakeholders to define project requirements, scope, and objectives. •Allocate resources, monitor progress, and identify and mitigate risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle. •Foster a culture of continuous improvement, promoting the adoption of best practices and efficient engineering methodologies. •Provide technical guidance and support to the engineering team, leveraging your expertise to resolve complex technical challenges. •Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and innovations, and evaluate their potential impact on our engineering processes. •Collaborate with the engineering team to design and implement robust, scalable, and maintainable solutions. •Identify and leverage outside resources where required to fill gaps in competencies •Develops and manages budget, schedule, and quality requirements across multiple disciplines for assigned projects. •Work collaboratively within the Global Product Team to fulfill requirements and/or meet applicable standards, including the associated cost and cycle time. •Foster effective communication and collaboration between engineering teams and stakeholders to ensure a shared understanding of project requirements and objectives. •Coordinate with external partners, vendors, or contractors as necessary to meet project deliverables. •Provide input into the recruitment and onboarding of engineering talent, identifying skill gaps and ensuring the team has the necessary resources to succeed. •Drive innovation and champion the adoption of emerging technologies and engineering practices. •Develop and execute test plans throughout the project lifecycle and perform system-level testing to validate control system performance, safety and security to customer, industry and regulatory requirements. •Demonstrate compliance with customer requirements, regulatory requirements and system specifications considering inputs from multiple subsystems. •Document systems design and development processes, including creating technical documentation, quality artifacts and user manuals. •Work with the engineering team to complete and maintain documentation of all assemblies, including generation of Bill of Material for production transition •Lead and conduct DFMEA risk analysis, root cause failure investigations, and solutions engineering •Determine detailed technical requirements for power electronic converters •Review inverter and converter technical documentation to determine compliance with requirements and evaluate technical characteristics •Verify functionality and performance characteristics by testing at CLOU's own testing facilities and/or supplier facilities •Develop deep understanding of inverter and converter operations and provide guidance to the Product teams on inverter integration into the CLOU's products •Work with converter system suppliers on modifications or improvements to their products to ensure optimal integration with CLOU's system design •Write technical specifications for equipment procurement and/or technical annexes to contract documents •Maintain CLOU's internal power electronics database and provide relevant documentation to internal stakeholders to allow for standardized offering and deployment of integrated products •Perform system level electrical design for CLOU's grid-scale battery energy storage (BESS) products focusing on hardware designs that are safe, flexible, maintainable, and cost competitive. •Develop requirements and electrical design for multi-MW energy storage systems integrating battery, power conversion, transformer to medium voltage, controls hardware, communication, auxiliary power, and safety equipment into standardized products •Prepare product technical information including key performance metrics, datasheets, and configuration limitations. Support Sales Engineering team in incorporating into CLOU's technical sales tools. •Oversee and at times perform electrical studies as part of system design, including short circuit analysis, protection sizing, protection coordination, and arc flash. •Evaluate and review product safety standards and local codes; support compliance process to obtain system level product certifications •Work with electrical component vendors to evaluate, select, and collect detailed technical information on system subcomponents •Obtain feedback on product design from regional project development teams, construction managers, commissioning teams, and services teams to incorporate experience and lessons learned into the product design •Collaborate with manufacturing, procurement, and product management to release product design iterations using product lifecycle management tools. •Direct CAD drafting team in preparation of system level electrical drawings packages and provide design inputs Requirements •Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent •8+years product development and test experience with energy storage, or other integrated DC/AC, DC/DC electrical systems experience with PCS HW and SW design and application •Knowledge of utility grid interconnection standards, such as UL/IEEE standards, and EMEA/APAC/Americas grid codes •Familiarity with related safety and test standards, such as UL, IEC, ISO, NEC, and NESC compliance design and construction practices •Experience with NFPA 70E training and recommended practices •Knowledge of utility grid interconnection standards and regional grid codes •Familiarity with utility scale systems design, control, and monitoring for grid connected and grid forming operating modes and applications is a plus •Familiarity with network architecture and communication protocols such as ModbusTCP, CANbus, or DNP3 •Knowledge of or history working with major component suppliers in the solar or battery storage industry, such as inverters, PV panels, or lithium-ion battery modules •Proficient with electrical modeling software packages such as ETAP, Matlab Simulink, PSCAD, or EMTP-RV •Experience with drafting electrical schematics in CAD software such as AutoCAD •Excellent English verbal and writing skills •Takes individual initiative and works with minimal supervision while being a collaborative team player •Demonstrated mission driven project management experience and an advanced planning mindset to address schedule and resource constraints •Possesses an entrepreneurial drive for getting things done and a "whatever it takes" attitude •"Demonstrated track record of managing a technical product with dispersed functional teams and a global supply chain •Works dynamically, across multiple teams and projects concurrently, in a technical business environment •Ability to solve complex technical problems and communicate results •Willing and able to travel, domestically and internationally, approximately 10% of the time

Created: 2024-10-19