Director, Project Engineering

Stem Inc • Broomfield, CO

1d • $162,480 - $243,720 • Hybrid

About The Position

As Director, Project Engineering – Americas, you will lead the Americas engineering organization and own the technical design and implementation of Data Acquisition Systems (DAS), SCADA, Power Plant Controllers (PPC), Energy Management Systems (EMS), and site networking for solar, energy storage, and hybrid projects across BTM and FTM, C&I, and utility-scale work. You will ensure engineering deliverables are technically correct, built to standard, and released on time and within budget, and scale the organization by turning custom engineering into standard designs and repeatable workflows.

This role is the engineering counterpart to the Director of PMO. The PMO owns schedule, scope, and customer delivery, while this role owns technical design, engineering quality, and engineering standards. Together, the two roles form the Americas delivery leadership team. The ideal leader is a hands-on technical expert who can also run an organization, solve complex controls and SCADA problems, and build the processes, standards, and people that enable the team to deliver more projects at higher quality.

The role’s direct reports, based in Broomfield, Colorado, are the Manager, Drafting & Design; Manager, Project Engineering – C&I; and Manager, Project Engineering – Utility. Key partners without a direct reporting line include Sales, Technical Sales Engineering, PMO, Field Services, Support, and Project Delivery – EMEA.

The position is based in Broomfield, CO, with a hybrid schedule of 2–3 days per week in the office. Travel is 10–20%, including customer sites, commissioning, the production facility, and new market development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering field.
• 12+ years of engineering experience in solar, energy storage, or a related power industry.
• 5+ years directly managing engineers, including managers of engineering teams, and experience managing departmental budget and headcount.
• 5+ years designing or delivering utility-scale SCADA, PPC, or EMS solutions.
• Experience overseeing drafting and design teams producing SLDs, IFC packages, and BOMs.
• Knowledge of grid stability, interconnection requirements, and grid codes such as IEEE 1547, IEEE 2800, and NERC IBR requirements.
• Demonstrated experience with closed-loop control design, tuning, and troubleshooting, including PID and feed-forward architectures.
• Working knowledge of Modbus, DNP3, IEC 61850, and OPC protocols; serial, fiber, and Ethernet standards; and OT networking, including switches, modems, firewalls, VPNs, LANs, and VLANs.
• Experience working within a quality management system, including design control, change management, and RCA/corrective action, and building scalable processes in a growing organization.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences, including field engineers, executives, and customers.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting ISO 9001 or supplier quality audits; internal auditor or ASQ certification.
• Experience with Inductive Automation Ignition, SEL controllers, or IEC 61131 programming; Python or C# scripting.
• Background in BESS and hybrid solar-plus-storage projects, including OEM integration.
• Familiarity with market and regulatory frameworks such as CAISO, ERCOT, and PJM, and OT cybersecurity standards such as NERC CIP and IEC 62443.
• Experience with new market entry or international deployments, especially LATAM; Spanish or Portuguese skills; experience leading globally distributed teams.
• Knowledge of PowerTrack, NetSuite, Jira, Confluence, and AutoCAD Electrical.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Americas engineering organization and own technical design, engineering quality, and engineering standards for DAS, SCADA, PPC, EMS, and site networking on solar, energy storage, and hybrid projects.
• Ensure engineering deliverables are technically correct, meet standards, and are released on time and within budget; scale delivery through standard designs and repeatable workflows.
• Serve as the engineering escalation point for complex sites, non-standard configurations, and technical customer issues, working with Development on advanced product issues.
• Stay current on grid technology, grid codes, and microgrid architectures and translate them into design standards.
• Align engineering procedures and best practices with engineering teams in EMEA, India, and Japan.
• Provide engineering review during sales, including intake forms, statements of work, risk identification, and budgetary proposals; gate non-standard scope before contract.
• Define and improve cross-functional handoffs, including field learnings to Product roadmaps, BOM accuracy and engineering change notices with Production, resource loading and engineering-hour estimates with PMO, and Tier 3 escalation paths with Support and Field Services.
• Measure process performance and improve the highest-cost handoff points.
• Maintain drafting and design standards, symbol libraries, and design templates, and drive automation and reuse of standard design blocks.
• Lead PowerTrack Logger (PL1K/PL1K+) deployments and develop standard C&I design offerings and configuration templates.
• Support Draker-to-PowerTrack and other portfolio retrofit and migration programs from an engineering standpoint.
• Partner with controls engineers on PPC and EMS integration, closed-loop tuning, and testing; support plant commissioning, utility witness testing, and COD, traveling to critical sites as needed.
• Lead engineering for first-time deployments of new edge hardware, including EMS, controllers, and PowerTrack Logger products, from beta through general availability.
• Build engineering playbooks for new markets, starting with LATAM, covering local grid codes, equipment certifications, language, and local partners; assess hardware and design compliance before the first commercial project.
• Ensure designs comply with NEC and applicable electrical codes, and establish documented commissioning and control handover procedures and FAT, SAT, and hardware-in-the-loop testing before field deployment.
• Own design control and change management through IFC release, document and training records, and root cause analysis and corrective action on deployed projects.
• Specify components from approved hardware lists and manage compliance, including certificates of conformance, RoHS/REACH, end-of-life, and shelf life.
• Support customer, OEM, and internal quality audits and track quality KPIs, including first-pass yield, post-IFC revision rate, and RCA closure time.
• Own headcount planning, AOP budget input, OPEX tracking, and engineering capacity forecasting; provide engineering KPIs weekly, monthly, and quarterly.
• Lead SWBU process improvement initiatives, represent engineering in business reviews, and act on the SVP’s behalf as delegated.
• Lead, mentor, and develop engineering managers, and build growth tracks for entry-level engineers and drafters to progress into senior and leadership roles.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including eligibility for a bonus or commission based on the role.
• Full health benefits on the first day of employment, including medical plan options (HDHP and PPO), dental plans, FSA/HSA with employer contribution, employer-paid vision, LTD, STD, and life insurance, and voluntary coverage.
• 401(k), pre- or post-tax, on the first day of employment.
• 12 paid calendar holidays per year.
• Flexible time-off.

What This Job Offers

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