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Throughout Canadian Solar's subsidiaries, e-Storage, Recurrent Energy, MSS and CSI Solar Co., we invest in our employees' growth. Our training programs and promotional opportunities ensure we all can continue to learn. We understand the importance of work-life balance and provide various flexible work options to support our employees' well-being. Join our team to "Make the Difference" by creating a lasting positive impact on the world and the communities where we operate.
Company Summary
Recurrent Energy is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc. and is one of the world's largest and most geographically diversified utility-scale solar and energy storage project development, ownership, and O&M platforms. Recurrent Energy is focused on bringing low-cost clean energy and meaningful economic development to communities across the globe.
With a strong track record of originating, developing, financing, and building nearly 9 GWp of solar and 3 GWh of battery storage power plants across six continents, Recurrent Energy has established a leadership position in both solar and battery storage project development. With a total pipeline of 25 GWp in solar and 47 GWh in battery storage, of which 14 GW and 12 GWh respectively already have interconnections (as of January 31, 2023). In addition, Recurrent Energy’s services business has 6 GW of projects under operations and maintenance contracts, either operational or contracted projects.
Company Summary
Recurrent Energy is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc. and is one of the world's largest and most geographically diversified utility-scale solar and energy storage project development, ownership, and O&M platforms. Recurrent Energy is focused on bringing low-cost clean energy and meaningful economic development to communities across the globe.
With a strong track record of originating, developing, financing, and building nearly 9 GWp of solar and 3 GWh of battery storage power plants across six continents, Recurrent Energy has established a leadership position in both solar and battery storage project development. With a total pipeline of 25 GWp in solar and 47 GWh in battery storage, of which 14 GW and 12 GWh respectively already have interconnections (as of January 31, 2023). In addition, Recurrent Energy’s services business has 6 GW of projects under operations and maintenance contracts, either operational or contracted projects.
Position Title:Development Engineer
Department:Engineering, Procurement, & Construction
Reports To:Senior Manager, Development Engineering
Location:Priority is given to candidates who can work in a flexible hybrid model from one of our offices in San Francisco, New York, Austin, or Guelph (Canada). In addition, monthly travel may be required to either a project site or our headquarters in Austin.
Position Summary
The Development Engineer supports the Development Engineering Managers with projects located across the United States. This position manages the conceptual design of Recurrent Energy’s utility scale photovoltaic (PV) power plants and battery energy storage system (BESS) facilities. This role is involved from early stage site evaluation and diligence through contractor hand-off. Reports to Senior Manager, Development Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Manage the conceptual design of a portfolio of PV and BESS projects with the direction from the engineering manager
- Proactively plan and manage the workload of drafting consultants and staff
- Prepare conceptual PV and BESS design layouts and single line drawings
- Perform PV Plant design optimization based on site-specific environmental factors and constraints
- Support site diligence and preliminary design workstreams to ensure project-specific risks are mitigated
- Create design specifications and coordinate design handoff to the performance and cost estimating teams
- Manage the evolving project Site Constraints Plan from early site diligence through EPC RFP, including a detailed knowledge of all plottable title issues
- Execute site visits to assess land characteristics and identify prioritization of diligence
- Support the procurement of land diligence studies (e.g. geotech, hydro, surveying)
- Support the permitting and real estate teams with analysis and exhibits
Financial & Organizational Scope
- Manages consultant work orders to ensure scope, schedule, quality, and coordination requirements are met.
Reporting Relationships & Interactions
- Reports to Director, Development Engineering
- Works cross functionally and collaboratively with all departments
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Expert skills managing AutoCAD relating to construction drawings:
- multiple evolving survey and environmental x’ref files
- state plane coordinate systems, grid vs ground coordinates
- model vs paper-space, layer & linetype management, version & quality control
- Experience interpreting survey and construction drawings
- Strong knowledge of Excel
- Experience using Google Earth to investigate project sites
- Understanding of land development including civil site issues, hydrology, easements and utility routing
- In-depth engineering experience with construction drawings for land development and/or infrastructure projects
- Excellent organizational and planning skills with ability to prioritize competing deadlines and a portfolio of projects
- Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to summarize complex issues and opportunities.
- Detail-oriented with a strong sense of personal responsibility for work products and team success.
- Extensive on-boarding, training, and guidance will be provided.
- Experience reviewing construction cost estimates and schedules a plus
Requirements
- 4-year Engineering degree from an accredited educational institution.
- B.S.in Civil, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
- EIT certification a plus
- 2+ years of engineering experience with land development and/or infrastructure project design
- Prior experience in the renewable energy industry preferred but not required.
Recurrent Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.
Recurrent Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.
Top Skills
What We Do
Founded in 2001 in Ontario Canada, Canadian Solar (NASDAQ: CSIQ) is as a global energy provider with successful business subsidiaries in 20 countries & regions on 6 continents. Canadian Solar is both a leading manufacturer of solar PV modules and a provider of solar energy solutions, with over 14,000 employees globally.
With state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Canada, China, Brazil and South East Asian countries, Canadian Solar now has module manufacturing capacity and has delivered more than 55 GW of premium quality solar modules to customers in over 150 countries in the past 20 years.
Canadian Solar has solar power projects globally and solar power plants that are in commercial operation, with a resale value of US$1.2 billion. In addition, Canadian Solar has a geographically diversified utility-scale solar power project pipeline around 10 GWp, with projects being developed in the U.S., Japan, Latin America,Australia, EMEA, South East Asia, India and China. Of the total project pipeline, 2.9 GWp of projects are at late-stage development and have secured energy offtake agreements.
In 2018, Canadian Solar achieved a revenue of US$3.74 billion, Meanwhile, Canadian Solar was listed as the Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Tier 1 Module Manufacturer in terms of bankability for Q4 2018, and was named as Top 3 Global Utility-scale Solar PV Project Developer for 2017 by GTM Research.
Canadian Solar Founder and CEO Dr. Shawn Qu blogs as a LinkedIn Influencer at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnqu/.
Canadian Solar is making the difference by delivering more clean, safe and affordable solar energy to the world.
