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About the Role

The Project Engineer II leads complex energy-efficiency retrofit projects from initiation through closeout, ensuring successful delivery of scope, schedule, budget, quality, and safety requirements. The role coordinates cross-functional teams, oversees design documentation, manages professional consultants and contractors, supports bid processes, and ensures compliance with all applicable codes, standards, permitting requirements, and stakeholder expectations. This position is well-suited for an experienced engineer with strong project-management capabilities, technical depth in building energy-efficiency technologies and MEP systems, the ability to oversee multiple projects simultaneously with minimal supervision, and the capacity to provide guidance to early-career engineers.

Responsibilities

Responsible for Project Management for all stages of the project lifecycle from initiation through close out for highly complex projects and/or programs and ensuring deliverables are received incompliance with schedule.
Manage and implement multiple projects and modifications concurrently.
Oversee and coordinate all in-house as well as external resources for all activities related to the project.
Ensure applicable licensing, environmental, permitting, safety, code compliance, construction, and requirements/input of all project stakeholders is incorporated into the project especially during initiation through design phase of the project.
Develop & manage design documents/specifications, project presentations, Trustee Items, project funding requests, budgets, forecasts, bid documents, evaluate bid proposals, and make award recommendations.
Partner with Construction Engineers, Engineering, Customers or Service Providers in developing/negotiating contract change orders, preparing invoices and coordinating construction sequencing and site outages, coordinate all field & design changes and quality testing/inspections.
Review and contribute to all project documentation including drawings, technical specifications, assessment reports, asset and risk registry, budgets, forecasts, invoices, schedules, variances, etc. for the project.
Perform occasional emergency response, including outside of normal business hours.
Support and guide/mentor lower-level Project Engineer(s).
Provide supervision of maintenance department(s) staff, and contractors, and prepare and monitor the day-to-day work activities of the crafts.
Work with planners in scheduling work activities; oversee the safety of employees.
Review job packages to ensure they are complete and current prior to performance of the work.
Review completed work, job packages, and work orders to verify all steps are complete and to ensure that all data/information is recorded.

Requirements

Proficient in project management of electrical, mechanical, structural and/or water projects specific to the electric utility, canal/waterways, building systems, distributed energy resource and/or electric vehicle industries.
Proven success in the management of technical and commercial aspects of large projects and programs.
Collaborative and team-oriented with ability to build relationships with vendors and stakeholders.
Ability to develop project plans, timelines, and work schedules as well as coordinate among customers, contractors, permitting agencies, etc.
Significant experience with applicable codes, standards, regulations, project budgets, costs, project management software and NYPA external stakeholders.
Ability to perform engineering calculations, and complete specifications, scopes of work, reports, and interdisciplinary design packages.
Approximately 25% travel primarily within NY State.
Willingness to enter confined spaces and climb/scale power system apparatuses.
Ability to travel to vendor facilities (worldwide) to support construction activities and to inspect equipment fabrication and commissioning for length of time needed.
Availability to work outside of normal business hours (including weekends) when project demands.

Skills

Project management
Energy-efficiency technologies
MEP systems
Building systems
Distributed energy resources
Electric vehicle industries
Electrical project management
Mechanical project management
Structural project management
Water project management
Electric utility project management
Canal/waterways project management
Technical project management
Commercial project management
Relationship building
Vendor management
Stakeholder management
Project planning
Timeline development
Work schedule coordination
Customer coordination
Contractor coordination
Permitting agency coordination
Code compliance
Standards compliance
Regulation compliance
Budget management
Cost management
Project management software
Engineering calculations
Specification development
Scope of work development
Report writing
Interdisciplinary design package development

Location

NY State

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Minimum of 6 years’ experience
Minimum of 3 years of experience preferred in Project / Construction Management

Education Level

Bachelor’s Degree in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or Energy Engineering or related field.
New York State Engineer in Training (EIT) certification
Project Management Professional certification or ability to obtain within 2 years.
Design Build Institute of America certification or ability to obtain within 2 years.
Certified Construction Manager (CCM)
Certified Energy Manager (CEM) certification

Salary/Compensations

$129,000 to $161,000

About the Company

The New York Power Authority is committed to providing fair, competitive, and market-informed compensation.
The New York Power Authority and Canal Corporation believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion drive our success, and we encourage women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents and veterans to apply.
As an equal opportunity employer, NYPA/Canals is committed to building inclusive, innovative work environments with employees who reflect communities across New York and enthusiastically serve them.
We proudly celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race/color, creed/religion, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, age, disability, military status, gender/sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy and related conditions, familial/marital status, domestic violence victim status, predisposing genetic characteristics, arrest/criminal conviction record or any other category protected by law.
NYPA/Canals will also provide reasonable accommodations during the hiring process related to candidates’ disabilities, pregnancy-related conditions, religious observances/practices and/or domestic violence concerns.

Equal Opportunity

As an equal opportunity employer, NYPA/Canals is committed to building inclusive, innovative work environments with employees who reflect communities across New York and enthusiastically serve them.
We proudly celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race/color, creed/religion, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, age, disability, military status, gender/sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy and related conditions, familial/marital status, domestic violence victim status, predisposing genetic characteristics, arrest/criminal conviction record or any other category protected by law.
NYPA/Canals will also provide reasonable accommodations during the hiring process related to candidates’ disabilities, pregnancy-related conditions, religious observances/practices and/or domestic violence concerns.