Redwood Materials
Electrical Engineer, Energy Storage Project Engineering
About this role
Redwood Materials seeks an Electrical Engineer to lead early-phase development of grid-scale battery energy storage projects, converting initial requirements into buildable designs, feasibility studies, and permitting strategies. You'll coordinate multi-disciplinary engineering teams, support business development with technical scope and cost inputs, and deliver comprehensive handoff packages to the detailed design team.
What you'll do
- Create concept layouts, single-line diagrams, and feasibility studies confirming buildability, interconnection viability, and permitting pathways
- Provide technical EPC support to Business Development with scope boundaries, constraints, cost/schedule estimates, and contract exhibits
- Coordinate civil, structural, electrical, architectural, and fire protection disciplines to establish design basis and assemble concept packages
- Identify and document permitting and interconnection strategies, timelines, and critical site requirements including zoning and environmental constraints
- Manage data and information request tracking, assign owners, and surface scope gaps and long-lead items
- Document scope delineation and deliver Basis of Design package to hand off projects to detailed design team
What they're looking for
- Grid-scale battery energy storage systems and balance-of-plant equipment
- Electrical system design and medium/high voltage systems
- Utility interconnection requirements and standards (UL 9540, UL 1973, IEEE, NEC, NFPA)
- Single-line diagram and concept layout development
- Multi-disciplinary engineering coordination
- Utility-scale project execution and EPC processes
- Permitting, zoning, and environmental regulatory knowledge
- Technical writing and documentation
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Redwood Materials
Redwood Materials develops battery products and energy storage systems, with a focus on battery refining, material production, and end-of-life battery processing. The company is hiring Systems Engineers, Design Engineers, Solutions Engineers, Software Engineers specializing in ML and Computer Vision, and Service Engineers to build and scale their battery technology and manufacturing operations.
- Website
- redwoodmaterials.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a grid-scale energy storage project you've worked on from early design through handoff—what were the biggest interconnection or permitting challenges?
- How do you approach coordinating across multiple engineering disciplines when there are conflicting design requirements or tight pursuit timelines?