Senior Project Engineer

Senior Project Engineer

We explore and discover the limitless possibilities of energy so we can all progress. We believe in the power of talent to shape the future. That's why we're looking for curious, bold individuals who are eager to grow and create new ways forward—people who want to join us in building a more sustainable, innovative, and inclusive world. Here, you'll find a place to grow and unlock your full potential.

Company Profile:

Repsol is a globally integrated multi-energy company headquartered in Madrid, Spain. With a team of 25,000 employees across more than 20 countries, we proudly serve 24 million customers worldwide. Our diversified renewable energy portfolio totals nearly 3,700 MW of installed capacity, with a strong presence in Spain, the United States, and Chile.

As part of our commitment to a more sustainable future, low-emissions generation is at the core of our strategy to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Repsol Renewables North America (RRSNA) plays a key role in this vision, with aims to increase generation capacity to between 3,000 MW and 4,000 MW by 2027.

We are driven by innovation, collaboration, and purpose. Repsol offers a comprehensive Employee Value Proposition (EVP), including a holistic Total Rewards program that supports the wellbeing, growth, and contributions of our people. Join us in shaping the future of energy.

Job Summary

The Senior Project Engineer is the primary technical point of contact for Repsol, vendors, and the internal project team. The role acts as a liaison between the contractor's engineering team, the Repsol engineering team and Project Manager. The role also serves as the technical integrator across all project phases, ensuring engineering deliverables, design assumptions, and technical interfaces are aligned and execution-ready.

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

Key Responsibilities:

Project Planning & Controls

• Work with the Project team to develop basis of design and project technical objectives by reviewing project proposals, schedules, and design requirements.
• Align project technical objectives with schedule milestones.
• Produce and/or review meeting minutes for project meetings.
• Identify critical path items and coordinate corrective actions in collaboration with the Project Manager to address progress-limiting factors and support schedule recovery efforts.
• Prepare engineering status reports and track action items by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing project data, trends, risks, and technical issues.

Engineering Management & Integration

• Oversee and manage engineering deliverables across the full lifecycle (development through operation turnover).
• Act as the technical integrator ensuring coordination of engineering and design inputs, assumptions, and interfaces.
• Serve as primary technical interface between EPCs, OEMs, consultants, and internal teams.
• Provide technical input for engineering and design deliverables and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering production across civil, structural, electrical, SCADA, interconnection, and commissioning disciplines.
• Facilitate preparation and review of design criteria, technical specifications, datasheets, one-line diagrams, schematics, and other engineering design documentation.

Procurement & Contracting

• Support conceptual design packages for RFP development.
• Develop and manage RFP technical exhibits.
• Prepare Request for Price (RFP) packages.
• Review vendor quotes and manage technical bid evaluations.
• Lead bidder clarifications, Q&A, and deviation tracking.
• Support bid evaluations and technical negotiations.
• Develop technical bid evaluation reports and recommendation packages for major equipment and EPC procurement activities.

Design & Technical Coordination

• Organize project scope of work and specifications based on company standards.
• Provide engineering technical support from early development through project close out.
• Facilitate technical reviews of civil, structural, electrical and SCADA design documents.
• Review engineering deliverables to ensure compliance with Company requirements, specifications, applicable codes, and industry standards.
• Manage project design execution and ensure all project comments and technical risk reach resolution and close out.

Engineering Reviews & Documentation

• Coordinate internal technical reviews across SMEs and Owner's engineer.
• Manage engineering deliverables and submittal documentation.
• Ensure project adherence to and implementation of Company Standards and technical requirements.
• Track technical reviews and engineering comment resolution across all engineering disciplines to ensure consistency and quality of project deliverables.

Interdepartmental Coordination

• Coordinate GIS, survey, and geotechnical data inputs through detail design.
• Support environmental and permitting activities.
• Collaborate with interconnection and compliance management to meet utility and ISO requirements.
• Deliver technical documentation to support tax equity and asset rotation.
• Manage all technical coordination and compliance with stakeholders to ensure designs satisfy ISO, utility, permitting and Company requirements.

Construction & Commissioning

• Facilitate constructability review meetings prior to design IFC.
• Coordinate RFIs and field engineering issues with Construction Managers.
• Support commissioning, testing, and performance verification.
• Provide engineering and technical support during construction, startup, commissioning, testing, performance validation, and operational turnover activities.
• Support resolution of field engineering issues through coordination with EPC contractors, OEMs, engineers of record, and internal stakeholders.

Closeout & Improvement

• Review, track and support change management request.
• Oversee as-built documentation and turnover packages.
• Capture lessons learned to improve future project execution.
• Lead technical closeout activities including punch list resolution, final performance verification, warranty documentation, and operational turnover.

Qualifications

• Applied knowledge of electric solar and energy storage projects.
• Knowledge and application of principles in area of solar and energy storage.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Well organized and attentive to details.
• Strong focus on safety and the ability to adhere to all safety requirements without exception.
• Ability to manage time efficiently across multiple projects.
• Self-motivated, able to work with minimal supervision and accepts a high degree of personal responsibility for results.
• Willingness to travel to job sites as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Electrical preferred).
• Minimum 12+ years relevant experience in the development and execution of large-scale Solar, Wind and BESS Projects.
• Knowledgeable of renewable industry standards and best practices.
• Practical knowledge of relevant Electrical Codes and Standards including but not limited to NEC, NESC, NFPA, API, NEMA, IEEE/ANSI etc.
• Experience in Power System modeling software like PVSyst, SKM, ETAP, PSCAD, PSSE, etc.
• Authorization to work in the U.S. (sponsorship not provided).
• PE License with an NCEES record.
• Experience in utility coordination, substation and overhead power line design is a plus.

Repsol is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran