Project Engineer – NORESCO (Remote)

Job Number: 2864

External Description:

NORESCO helps customers create modern, sustainable, and healthy buildings, campuses, and communities while saving energy and water, and optimizing operational and capital budgets. NORESCO is also a leader in the effort to address the modern energy infrastructure challenges facing the nation and our world, including decarbonization, electrification, grid flexibility, sustainability, and resiliency. Through its projects, NORESCO has guaranteed more than $5 billion in energy and operating cost savings at more than 10,000 facilities throughout the U.S. and abroad, while reducing customer CO2 emissions by more than 25 million metric tons, equivalent to planting 1.4 million acres of forest.  

NORESCO is a Carrier company. We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages.

We have an immediate need for a Project Engineer (remote)

About the role

The Project Engineer is a key position reporting to a Manager of Engineering.  As a Project Engineer at NORESCO, you’ll work with our internal project teams to ensure that final engineering designs will achieve the energy savings guarantees and functional performance specified by our customers.  This is an opportunity to observe your design work become part of a successful energy conservation measure.

You will join a team of several dozen design engineers in an engineering-centric organization, NORESCO has over 150 in-house engineers from nearly every discipline. Our project teams include representatives from multiple departments; Development, Analysis, Construction, M&V, Commissioning, and O&M. Project Engineers are engaged with multiple projects from initial development through construction and into operations.

Key Responsibilities

• The Project Engineer is responsible for a collaborative Design/Build process that leverages NORESCO technical expertise with external engineering, vendors, and subcontractor partners
• Support the design and engineering process on assigned projects; Refine schedules, scopes, and budgets with the project team, lead design review meetings & charrettes, track design submissions, and customer approvals, ensure all elements of scope are accurately designed, documented, reviewed, and distributed to the project team for use during construction
• Manage the design engineering process during project development; Site investigations, data collection, preparation of conceptual design documents (i.e. schematics, equipment selections, preliminary drawings, scopes of work, specifications, etc.)
• Support project pricing effort in partnership with NORESCO Construction department; Final bid packages, subcontractor qualification, subcontractor bid-walks, use of third-party consultants, bid reviews, value engineering, evaluation of life cycle, and long-term service agreements, etc.
• Support project team on site during construction, commissioning, and performance phases to resolve design issues, document as-built conditions, and ensure performance objectives are met
• Assists with energy cost saving calculations for a variety of HVAC, central boiler, gas turbine, biomass, electric generation and cogeneration projects. 
• Participates in the equipment procurement process, including development of specifications and vendor relationships, definition of vendor scope of work, design review and periodic vendor shop inspections
• Anticipated travel 20- 35%

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of Mechanical or Electrical Project and/or Design working experience
• Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical Engineering preferred)
• Professional Engineer’s registration (or path to obtaining one)
• High-level communication, leadership, engineering, and project management skills
• Strong sense of ownership, understands the importance of maintaining project schedules, resolving issues promptly, and consistently meeting deadlines and commitments
• Knowledge of one or more facets of engineering: design principles, technologies, system modeling and load calculations, equipment sizing, applicable codes, design guides, and standards
• HVAC and or Central Plant Power Generation construction or construction management
• The ability to operate in a team environment and work closely with Senior Design Engineers to develop scopes of work and design drawings for various  measures
• Desire to build and maintain respectful and inclusive working relationships with individual project team members to foster an environment of cooperation and productivity
• Experience with engineering for federal facilities
• Eligible to obtain a federal security clearance

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Job Number: 30119344

Community / Marketing Title: Project Engineer – NORESCO (Remote)

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