Staff Project Engineer - Grid Scale

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Project Engineer – Grid Scale based in the United States. Join a growing clean-energy engineering team focused on delivering reliable, affordable, and lower-emission power solutions for large-scale energy projects. As a Staff Project Engineer, you will lead the technical development and execution of grid-scale deployments of 10 MW and above, including utility-connected facilities and power systems serving large loads such as data centers. You will bring together electrical, mechanical, civil, controls, fuel, and utility disciplines to deliver safe, compliant, and buildable project designs. Working closely with clients, engineering partners, project managers, and utilities, you will guide projects from early design through interconnection, commissioning, and final authorization to operate. Your expertise in power systems, protection, controls, and grid compliance will help resolve complex technical challenges while maintaining project schedules and performance objectives. This role offers the opportunity to shape engineering standards, improve delivery processes, and support the expansion of dependable, cleaner power infrastructure. Accountabilities: As a Staff Project Engineer, you will own the technical direction of large-scale power projects, ensuring that designs meet customer needs, regulatory requirements, and operational objectives. You will coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities, support grid interconnection, and guide projects through design, construction, testing, and commissioning.

- Lead technical project development: Define project requirements and technical direction, including site layouts, single-line diagrams, equipment selection, sequences of operation, plant controls, communications, network security, protection and metering, grounding, fuel systems, and safety systems. - Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering: Integrate electrical, mechanical, civil, controls, fuel, and utility scopes, conducting design reviews, interface assessments, and value-engineering activities to deliver compliant, buildable solutions within established budgets and schedules. - Support grid interconnection: Provide technical data, equipment models, and electrical documentation for interconnection applications; review feasibility, system impact, and facility studies; and advise on technical requirements in interconnection agreements. - Design large-load power systems: Define how generation plants serve and protect large loads, including data centers, through islanding, load-following, transfer schemes, and related operational strategies. - Specify power and fuel equipment: Guide the selection of medium-voltage and interconnection equipment, including switchgear, breakers, transformers, protective relays, revenue meters, reclosers, plant power controllers, SCADA hardware, gas regulators, and valves. - Develop engineering documentation: Prepare and maintain equipment specifications, sequences of operation, engineering standards, EPC scopes of work, and testing procedures. Support procurement activities and requests for proposals. - Manage design coordination and quality: Work with clients and engineering partners to translate project requirements into construction-ready plan sets, apply QA/QC standards, respond to requests for information (RFIs), approve submittals, and review designs throughout execution and commissioning. - Resolve technical issues: Approve design variances and independently assess engineering modifications while preserving design intent, project functionality, and delivery schedules. - Review power system studies: Evaluate site assessments, inspections, and studies covering load flow, short circuits, protection coordination, arc flash, power quality, and dynamic performance.