DES Engineering Manager

MN8 Energy • Boca Raton, FL

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About The Position

The Distributed Energy Solutions (DES) Engineer provides technical leadership for the development, construction, commissioning, and operation of emerging energy-infrastructure projects. The role supports large fleet EV charging, high-reliability charging for autonomous-vehicle fleets, and technical due diligence for modular data-center opportunities, including brownfield opportunities within MN8's existing asset fleet.

This is a platform- and project-focused engineering role rather than a position dedicated to a single customer account. The engineer works across Development, Origination, Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Asset Management, Operations, IT/cybersecurity, utilities, customers, and external engineers to turn early concepts into safe, permitted, constructible, operable, and scalable systems.

The role leads technical feasibility assessments, develops conceptual designs and owner requirements, coordinates utility-service strategies, and creates repeatable screening tools and standards. It evaluates fleet and autonomous-vehicle charging systems and modular data-center opportunities; manages engineering consultants, vendors, and contractors; reviews designs and procurement submittals; supports field engineering, commissioning, and turnover; and helps Operations and Asset Management with ongoing system performance and maintenance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Civil, or Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience in distributed energy, EV charging, data centers, utility infrastructure, industrial facilities, microgrids, renewable energy, or similarly complex electrical infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience in at least one of the role’s three focus areas: large fleet EV charging, autonomous-vehicle charging, or modular data-center due diligence.
• Working knowledge of low- and medium-voltage distribution, transformers, switchgear, protection and controls, grounding, metering, load calculations, and single-line diagrams.
• Experience coordinating with electric utilities, authorities having jurisdiction, owner engineers, engineers of record, OEMs, contractors, and project stakeholders.
• Experience reviewing multidisciplinary designs and supporting projects through construction, commissioning, or operations.
• Ability to analyze incomplete information, make transparent assumptions, identify material risks, and communicate practical recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong written, verbal, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities.
• Ability to travel to project, vendor, and operating sites within the United States, typically up to 25%.

Nice To Haves

• Technical breadth and curiosity to evaluate technologies adjacent to the candidate’s demonstrated focus area; deep prior experience in all three focus areas is not required.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical feasibility assessments from opportunity screening through investment decision, identifying fatal flaws, assumptions, design basis, schedule drivers, cost and performance risks, and follow-up studies.
• Develop conceptual site layouts, load profiles, single-line concepts, equipment sizing, utility-service strategies, and owner technical requirements for site selection, budgeting, commercial evaluation, and consultant handoff.
• Coordinate utility capacity inquiries, service or interconnection applications, rate and tariff inputs, service-voltage selection, system upgrades, and energization schedules.
• Create and maintain screening tools, design standards, technical specifications, scopes of work, review checklists, and lessons learned across the DES portfolio.
• Translate customer and operating requirements into hardware, controls, communications, cybersecurity, reliability, maintainability, and acceptance criteria.
• Evaluate depot and en-route EV charging concepts using vehicle duty cycles, dwell windows, route schedules, charger utilization, charging curves, fleet growth, resilience requirements, and utility capacity.
• Develop or review EV charger mix, electrical distribution, transformers, switchgear, protective devices, cable routing, parking and vehicle circulation, lighting, signage, accessibility, fire/life-safety provisions, and expansion allowances.
• Assess managed charging, charge-management systems, energy management, solar and storage integration, demand-charge mitigation, backup power, and operational fallback strategies.
• Develop high-throughput, high-availability charging concepts for autonomous-mobility providers, including redundancy, fault isolation, remote recovery, maintenance access, and phased capacity growth.
• Coordinate vehicle movements and safe site circulation with charging interfaces, automated or robotic charging equipment where applicable, communications networks, controls, and remote operations platforms.
• Define and verify system availability, fail-safe behavior, alarm and event handling, data interfaces, cybersecurity responsibilities, commissioning scenarios, and operational acceptance tests.
• Screen existing MN8 assets and other brownfield sites for modular data-center potential, considering electrical capacity, interconnection and substation constraints, parcel control, setbacks, access, fiber, water and cooling, environmental conditions, permitting, noise, security, and construction logistics.
• Develop preliminary data-center power-balance and capacity-expansion concepts, including service topology, redundancy, transformers, switchgear, UPS and backup-generation interfaces, grounding, protection, controls, and coordination with renewable or storage assets.
• Review modular data-center vendors and concepts for electrical and cooling architecture, module transport and installation, fire/life safety, maintainability, expandability, commissioning, performance guarantees, and customer uptime requirements.
• Prepare technical diligence findings, risk registers, data gaps, ROM assumptions, and recommendations to help Development and investment teams compare and prioritize opportunities.
• Manage owner engineers, engineers of record, OEMs, integrators, contractors, and specialist consultants; establish design responsibility and coordinate interfaces.
• Review design packages, calculations, studies, equipment selections, drawings, submittals, RFIs, deviations, and value-engineering proposals for compliance with the design basis, codes, contracts, operability, and lifecycle objectives.
• Support procurement of long-lead equipment through technical bid evaluations, approved-vendor recommendations, factory testing requirements, and resolution of technical exceptions.
• Provide field engineering support during construction, energization, startup, commissioning, and turnover; participate in site walks, factory and site acceptance testing, punch-list closure, and readiness reviews.
• Coordinate integration of charging platforms, energy-management systems, SCADA or monitoring, metering, networking, APIs, data historians, alarms, and maintenance systems; define and verify system interfaces and acceptance criteria.
• Support Asset Management and Operations with onboarding, operating procedures, maintenance strategies, spare-parts recommendations, warranty administration, performance monitoring, root-cause investigations, and corrective-action plans.
• Promote safe engineering and field practices and verify compliance with applicable electrical, building, fire, accessibility, occupational-safety, utility, and local jurisdictional requirements.
• Travel to project, vendor, and operating sites within the United States, typically up to 25%.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance beginning the first day of the month following the date of hire
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays and floating holidays
• 401(k) with competitive employer match
• Parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level