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TITLE: Wind Project Engineer
EMPLOYER: AES Clean Energy Services, LLC
LOCATION: Louisville, CO (Full-time telecommuting permitted, 25% travel required to project sites)
DUTIES: Conduct Due Diligence for M&A Projects: Perform thorough reviews of potential merger and acquisition projects or portfolios, assessing risks, opportunities, and overall feasibility. Lead Project Planning and Development: Oversee and coordinate the early stages of project development, including feasibility studies, site selection, and preliminary design to ensure alignment with strategic goals and profitability targets. Provide Constructability Guidance: Offer expert support to the prospecting team by evaluating project designs for constructability, ensuring practical and efficient execution. Develop Preliminary Balance of Plant (BOP) Designs: Create initial designs for site civil work, turbine foundations, electrical collection systems, substations, and generation tie-lines. Perform Micro- Siting Activities: Optimize placement of turbines, road layouts, electrical collection routes, and substation/switchyard locations to enhance efficiency and reduce costs. Review and Negotiate Contracts: Lead the negotiation of BOP and Turbine Supply Agreements (TSA), ensuring favorable terms and conditions for project success. Conduct Design and Change Order Reviews: Review BOP and switchyard designs, evaluate contractor change order requests, and provide oversight to maintain project quality and compliance. Ensure Safe and High-Quality Project Execution: Guide construction efforts to ensure work is performed safely, meets quality standards, remains within budget, and is completed on or ahead of schedule.
REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor's degree in Engineering (any field), or a related field. and 3 years of experience in wind system design, development, construction and analysis. Also requires OSHA 10-hr or comparable job-site safety certification.
- Job requires EIT qualification requiring passing the Fundamental of Engineering (FE) exam and application to the state board OR PE qualifications requiring passing the FE exam, or 3 years and a graduate program.
Job requires 3 years of experience in each of the following:
- Experience in substation layout, planning, Civil and Structural Design using AutoCAD, ArcGIS or Civil 3D software, High voltage Equipment, Protection and control design, Power System Studies using ETAP, PSSE & PSCAD software, Project Management and co-ordination using Microsoft Tools or Primavera.
- Experience with electrical design, trenching and cable laying, MV cable testing, termination and energization of MV collection, design, construction, and operations of MV collection, Substation, Gen-Tie, Interconnection Switchyard, Site Civil, Turbine Foundation, Geotechnical for the wind projects.
- Experience with Gen-Tie line design using PLSS CAD software, permitting and environmental consideration, overhead and underground line construction, testing and commissioning.
- Experience with roadway design, drainage and erosion control using Civil 3D, ArcGIS or AutoCAD and crane pad construction
- Experience with foundation design, geotechnical investigation, concrete construction, foundation testing
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