Electrical Engineer Manager

• Lead, mentor, and motivate a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
• Set clear performance goals, provide regular feedback, and conduct performance evaluations.
• Guide the professional development of team members, identifying training needs and supporting their growth.
• Promote effective communication, knowledge sharing, and teamwork among team members and other departments.
• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of engineering projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project requirements, scope, and objectives.
• Allocate resources, monitor progress, and identify and mitigate risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, promoting the adoption of best practices and efficient engineering methodologies.
• Provide technical guidance and support to the engineering team, leveraging your expertise to resolve complex technical challenges.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and innovations, and evaluate their potential impact on our engineering processes.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to design and implement robust, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
• Identify and leverage outside resources where required to fill gaps in competencies
• Develops and manages budget, schedule, and quality requirements across multiple disciplines for assigned projects.
• Work collaboratively within the Global Product Team to fulfill requirements and/or meet applicable standards, including the associated cost and cycle time.
• Foster effective communication and collaboration between engineering teams and stakeholders to ensure a shared understanding of project requirements and objectives.
• Coordinate with external partners, vendors, or contractors as necessary to meet project deliverables.
• Provide input into the recruitment and onboarding of engineering talent, identifying skill gaps and ensuring the team has the necessary resources to succeed.
• Drive innovation and champion the adoption of emerging technologies and engineering practices.
• Develop and execute test plans throughout the project lifecycle and perform system-level testing to validate control system performance, safety and security to customer, industry and regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrate compliance with customer requirements, regulatory requirements and system specifications considering inputs from multiple subsystems.
• Document systems design and development processes, including creating technical documentation, quality artifacts and user manuals.
• Work with the engineering team to complete and maintain documentation of all assemblies, including generation of Bill of Material for production transition
• Lead and conduct DFMEA risk analysis, root cause failure investigations, and solutions engineering
• Determine detailed technical requirements for power electronic converters
• Review inverter and converter technical documentation to determine compliance with requirements and evaluate technical characteristics
• Verify functionality and performance characteristics by testing at CLOU’s own testing facilities and/or supplier facilities
• Develop deep understanding of inverter and converter operations and provide guidance to the Product teams on inverter integration into the CLOU’s products
• Work with converter system suppliers on modifications or improvements to their products to ensure optimal integration with CLOU’s system design
• Write technical specifications for equipment procurement and/or technical annexes to contract documents
• Maintain CLOU’s internal power electronics database and provide relevant documentation to internal stakeholders to allow for standardized offering and deployment of integrated products
• Perform system level electrical design for CLOU’s grid-scale battery energy storage (BESS) products focusing on hardware designs that are safe, flexible, maintainable, and cost competitive.
• Develop requirements and electrical design for multi-MW energy storage systems integrating battery, power conversion, transformer to medium voltage, controls hardware, communication, auxiliary power, and safety equipment into standardized products
• Prepare product technical information including key performance metrics, datasheets, and configuration limitations. Support Sales Engineering team in incorporating into CLOU’s technical sales tools.
• Oversee and at times perform electrical studies as part of system design, including short circuit analysis, protection sizing, protection coordination, and arc flash.
• Evaluate and review product safety standards and local codes; support compliance process to obtain system level product certifications
• Work with electrical component vendors to evaluate, select, and collect detailed technical information on system subcomponents
• Obtain feedback on product design from regional project development teams, construction managers, commissioning teams, and services teams to incorporate experience and lessons learned into the product design
• Collaborate with manufacturing, procurement, and product management to release product design iterations using product lifecycle management tools.
• Direct CAD drafting team in preparation of system level electrical drawings packages and provide design inputs
Requirements
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 8+years product development and test experience with energy storage, or other integrated DC/AC, DC/DC electrical systems experience with PCS HW and SW design and application
• Knowledge of utility grid interconnection standards, such as UL/IEEE standards, and EMEA/APAC/Americas grid codes
• Familiarity with related safety and test standards, such as UL, IEC, ISO, NEC, and NESC compliance design and construction practices
• Experience with NFPA 70E training and recommended practices
• Knowledge of utility grid interconnection standards and regional grid codes
• Familiarity with utility scale systems design, control, and monitoring for grid connected and grid forming operating modes and applications is a plus
• Familiarity with network architecture and communication protocols such as ModbusTCP, CANbus, or DNP3
• Knowledge of or history working with major component suppliers in the solar or battery storage industry, such as inverters, PV panels, or lithium-ion battery modules
• Proficient with electrical modeling software packages such as ETAP, Matlab Simulink, PSCAD, or EMTP-RV
• Experience with drafting electrical schematics in CAD software such as AutoCAD
• Excellent English verbal and writing skills
• Takes individual initiative and works with minimal supervision while being a collaborative team player
• Demonstrated mission driven project management experience and an advanced planning mindset to address schedule and resource constraints
• Possesses an entrepreneurial drive for getting things done and a “whatever it takes” attitude
• "Demonstrated track record of managing a technical product with dispersed functional teams and a global supply chain
• Works dynamically, across multiple teams and projects concurrently, in a technical business environment
• Ability to solve complex technical problems and communicate results
• Willing and able to travel, domestically and internationally, approximately 10% of the time