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About the Role
The Senior or Staff BESS Project Engineer will join a new engineering team focused on the Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) product line. This role involves owning the full project lifecycle, from commercial scoping to handover to Operations and Maintenance, for energy storage and microgrid projects. The position requires shaping how Redwood delivers energy storage at scale in an environment where processes are still developing.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end project execution from requirements scoping and Business Development handoff through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and Operations and Maintenance handoff
- Own the integrated schedule, budget tracker, and risk register for each assigned project, and proactively identify and escalate schedule or cost risks
- Serve as the primary interface between Business Development, Product Engineering, internal and external EPC partners, and customers across all project phases
- Track RFI and submittal workflows, change order logs, permitting, interconnection coordination, and all contractual project deliverables
- Partner with Product Engineering on equipment selection, bill of materials alignment, and technical scope definition, and retain change control over the Basis of Design across the project lifecycle
- Oversee commissioning readiness and test plan execution, and manage structured handoff documentation to Operations and Maintenance
- Maintain project data in project management tooling, provide planning inputs and deployment forecasting to leadership, and capture lessons learned into repeatable delivery templates, checklists, and execution standards
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Program Management, Business, or a related discipline
- Deep program management experience in battery energy storage, renewable energy, or utility-scale power infrastructure
- Demonstrated experience managing projects from scoping through commissioning and Operations and Maintenance handoff, with ownership of schedule, budget, and risk
- Strong cross-functional communication skills, comfortable managing up, down, and across internal and external EPC, customer, and internal engineering teams
- Familiarity with key BESS-related standards such as UL 9540, UL 9540A, UL 1973, UL 1741, IEEE, NEC (NFPA 70), NFPA 855, and IEC
- Willingness to travel to project sites as needed
- Climbing, standing, and stooping during project site visits
- Typing and extended computer work in an office setting
Skills
- Program management
- Battery energy storage
- Renewable energy
- Utility-scale power infrastructure
- Project management
- Schedule management
- Budget management
- Risk management
- Cross-functional communication
- Managing up, down, and across teams
- BESS-related standards
- UL 9540
- UL 9540A
- UL 1973
- UL 1741
- IEEE
- NEC (NFPA 70)
- NFPA 855
- IEC
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Full-time
- Office environment
- Regular travel to project sites
Experience Level
- Senior
- Staff
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Program Management, Business, or a related discipline
Salary/Compensations
- $160,000—$252,000 USD
About the Company
- Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling — keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition.
- Founded in 2017, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.
- Redwood Materials is deploying large-scale battery energy storage systems that power data centers and the grid, including North America's largest microgrid (63 MWh) for Crusoe, a stationary storage partnership with GM using new and second-life EV batteries, and a new deployment at Rivian's Normal, Illinois manufacturing plant.