New Leaf Energy is an experienced clean energy developer that partners with landowners, policymakers, and other stakeholders to accelerate the transition to a world powered by renewable energy. We identify high-value sites, work with landowners and local communities to develop them, and partner with long-term asset owners to bring the most impactful clean energy projects to life.
New Leaf Energy is seeking an Energy Storage Technical Lead to join our team! This position may be filled out of our Lowell, MA, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, Oakland, CA, or Troy, NY offices. We value in-person collaboration and offer a hybrid work environment. Hybrid employees work in the office at least two out of every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and are free to work from the office or from home on other days.
About the Role
The Energy Storage Technical Lead will provide development and engineering thought leadership, deploying deep understanding of energy storage products and system optimization to identify opportunities to create more value for customers by pursuing current and future energy storage solutions. Together with a team of design engineers, civil engineers, and electrical engineers, this role will define the solution set that differentiates New Leaf Energy’s business to develop highly valued transmission and distributed scale projects, and enable us to efficiently grow our energy storage business into new market territories and applications.
The Energy Storage Technical Lead will fulfill a key leadership role on New Leaf’s energy storage team, a small, cross-functional group with responsibility and decision-making authority over New Leaf Energy’s entire national energy storage portfolio. The Technical Lead will work closely with representatives from the project development and project finance functions to manage the performance and growth of New Leaf’s energy storage business.
In partnership with IPPs, internal stakeholders and external vendor partners, the Technical Lead will contribute to design specification, optimization, and costing of our energy storage plants to maximize New Leaf Energy’s value to our customers and reduce our costs to deliver. The Technical Lead will actively support our design engineering team in their goals by working closely with our engineers and clearly articulating how New Leaf Energy’s leadership in technical design creates value for our customers.
Position responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Translating the specifications of OEMs into technical specifications for regional applications;
- Creating standard operating procedures and tools that empower internal stakeholders and enable them to work effectively and efficiently toward developing new projects;
- Defining and maintaining energy storage equipment standards to be used by the design engineering team;
- Collaborating with the New Leaf Energy team and vendors to maintain accurate and competitive cost models to facilitate costing for new projects;
- Providing value engineering and other technical sales support for design engineering, project developers, and the finance team;
- Supporting the evaluation of new equipment components and other direct cost reduction initiatives with key stakeholders from electrical and design engineering teams;
- Defining standard engineering deliverables that enable our project teams to dramatically improve their execution efficiency;
- Managing and solving key challenges that arise during development, and creating a central location to store that knowledge;
- Training new engineers on our energy storage systems and designs;
- Learning from internal customers in the office and in the field, and managing closed feedback loops to continuously improve our standard product design and deliverables;
- Participating in interdisciplinary Kaizen events to improve our process.
Desired Qualifications
While no one individual will possess them all, the successful candidate will bring many of the following experiences, skills, and attributes. If you’re unsure whether you meet enough of the qualifications below but believe that your experience and skill set is a good match for this position, we invite you to apply!
- 3-5 years’ experience with commercial or utility-scale energy storage and solar PV development, design or construction;
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, or other engineering discipline;
- Demonstrated understanding of the market for commercial and utility-scale energy storage engineering services;
- Experience with designing and modeling renewable energy coupled with energy storage;
- Experience and familiarity with commercially available storage technologies;
- Working knowledge of fire and building codes, electrical standards (UL/IEEE) and National Electrical Code, U.S. utility interconnection standards;
- Familiarity with Lean problem-solving techniques and tools and excellent problem-solving skills;
- A strong entrepreneurial drive and desire to impact the company’s performance;
- Excellent communication skills;
- Strong team leadership skills;
- Comfortable working with a collaborative team in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment.
Compensation
New Leaf Energy compensates all employees in three ways: market-competitive base salary, plus above-market variable compensation, plus an equity-like program such that all employees experience the benefits of ownership. We use a data-driven and transparent methodology to calibrate compensation that is externally competitive and internally equitable, guided by the New Leaf Energy compensation manual, which is available to all employees.
Under our compensation framework, the likely base salary range for this position in Chicago, IL is 130,050 - $148,020. Your actual salary may be above, in, or below this range, depending on your location and experience. Compensation for this position includes an incentive plan, about which we can go into detail in the interview process.
Benefits and Culture
New Leaf Energy’s success is driven by our collaborative, long-term relationships based on trust and transparency. We offer a flexible work environment that places significant responsibility in independent teams and creates opportunities for innovation and personal growth. New Leaf Energy’s benefits are designed to appropriately recognize our employees’ contributions and enable a reasonable work/life balance. Our benefits include:
- Competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental and vision;
- A 401k plan with immediate vesting and a company match (100% of the first three percent of your pay; 50% for the next two percent you contribute);
- An open and self-managed paid time-off policy;
- A hybrid work location policy that supports working from home for part of the week;
- A parental leave policy for both birthing and non-birthing parents, available immediately upon hire;
- Professional development and education assistance.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
New Leaf Energy values the diverse perspectives, skills, experiences, and contributions of all employees. We want all our employees to feel like they belong and are empowered to be their most authentic selves at work. We’re actively committed to fostering diversity and creating an inclusive environment not only within our own organization but also within the clean energy industry.
We seek a diverse candidate pool in this–and every–search. New Leaf Energy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, disability, genetics, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state, federal and local laws. In addition to federal law requirements, New Leaf Energy complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. EEO M/F/D/V.
A Note to Third-Party Recruiters
New Leaf Energy’s People + Culture team coordinates all recruiting and hiring at our company. New Leaf Energy does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters, staffing firms, or related agencies. Resumes are only accepted from third-party recruiters, staffing firms, or related agencies if a signed agreement is in place AND if external recruiting assistance is authorized by the People + Culture team for a specific position. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of New Leaf Energy. New Leaf Energy is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
