Associate, Development Engineering, Italy

Position Title : Associate, Development Engineering, IT– m/f

Department : Development Engineering, EPC

Reporting to: Senior Manager, Engineering & Estimating, EMEA

Responsibilities

• Ensure project engineering activities, under his responsibility, comply with company guidelines and support overall the engineering team.
• Create conceptual designs for PV and BESS plants across the portfolio.
• Help project team to develop specifications to optimize PV power plant design including, but not limited to, component selection, module string sizing, layout design, collector routing design, conductor sizing, etc.
• Produce and interpret technical drawings for solar power plants and BESS on CAD software.
• Develop PV power plant and BESS corresponding single line diagrams.
• Extract quantities from existing drawings.
• Create technical presentation for the produced design.
• Carry our site land surveys and prepare site survey reports.
• Delegated to interface with all engineering departments/disciplines as required.
• Analysis of the network for a definition of the connection process in the most advantageous technical-economic formula.
• Analysis of technical connection solutions.

Requirements

• +3 years working experience in PV and BESS.
• Adequate technical knowledge of PV power plants, battery energy storage and basic electrical and control engineering concepts.
• Able to extract technical data from equipment data sheets and project documents.
• Preferably a degree level qualification associated with electrical power systems and/or electrical engineering / renewable energy engineering.
• Basic knowledge of electricity networks (structure, drawings and models) and integration of infrastructures.
• Previous experiences in Scada and PPC system is a plus.

Skill & Competencies

• Eligible to work in Italy
• Results driven with analytical capability and the ability to innovate and simplify current process and practices.
• Motivated in bringing new perspectives and injecting fresh ideas into our customer orientated processes.
• Pays attention to details delivers high-quality outputs, always on time.
• Communicates clearly, effectively, to-the-point. Understands executive communication.
• Exceptional analytical skills, both quantitative and qualitative.
• True team-player, understands the power of team collaboration.
• Used to work under pressure, meeting tight deadlines in a very demanding environment.

Education & Training

• Currently working towards a bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering (Electrical, renewable energy).
• Advanced proficiency in AutoCAD, PVSyst and PVCase (or PVDesign). Experience with BESS software simulation tools preferred.
• Microsoft Office proficient, including high proficiency in Excel.

Languages

• Ability to communicate (written & verbal) in English and Italian at CEFR Level B2 or higher.