Performance Engineer

esVolta•Newport Beach, CA

1d•Remote

About The Position

We are seeking individuals to join as Performance Engineer to support the performance optimization and contractual reporting for operational battery energy storage assets throughout the USA. The Performance Engineer will conduct performance analysis and data interpretation to ensure contractual adherence for GWh of BESS assets; providing expertise to maximize asset performance while optimizing asset value. This position is responsible for ensuring improvement of systems, tools, and being a resource regarding emerging operational best practices with a critical thinking mindset and ability to investigate issues and perform data analysis to provide resolutions.

Requirements

3 years of experience in energy storage.
ABET accredited bachelor’s degree (Masters preferred) in Engineering and/or data science. Professional Engineering status preferred.
Highly proficient in software engineering with experience in Python, SQL, data visualization, and artificial intelligence.
Experience working with Cloud computing services and databases.
Advanced knowledge of statistical analysis and data mining techniques such as; regression, multilevel regression, forecasting, decision trees, etc.
Familiarity with SCADA, communication protocols, and controls.
Proficient at breaking down goals into tangible and actionable work plans.
Superior communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.
Outstanding interpersonal skills, including an ability to maintain calm and effective exchanges by all parties during stressful situations, and executive level reporting that ensures timely action and decision making in time-pressured scenarios.
Demonstrate strong teamwork orientation, initiative, communication, problem solving, organizational and leadership skills.
Grit, strong work ethic, and passionate about the energy sector.
Willingness to be remotely based and ability to travel to project sites as required.
Willing to travel – estimated 10%.

Responsibilities

Own the operational performance engineering and reporting for esVolta’s deployed BESS, focusing on system performance improvement.
Evaluate asset performance against contractual commitments during execution and operation phases, and create baseline reports.
Support the development of technical performance contract language for EPC agreements.
Develop software to generate actionable insights from performance data using data mining and statistical analysis techniques.
Conduct computationally efficient exploratory data analysis, anomaly detection, and projection methodologies.
Develop systems to automatically detect performance degradations and correlate them to specific causes and improvements.
Create systems for automatic reporting of Energy Storage health and deploy interventions based on management by exception criteria.
Collaborate with Operations Engineering to identify and resolve technical issues, working closely with the Asset Management Team and equipment suppliers to address system deficiencies or malfunctions.
Consolidate energy production and financial model inputs and analysis to support performance-related aspects of power purchase agreements, EPC contracts, interconnection agreements, and equipment warranties.
Validate performance against base case financial assumptions.
Review technical documents and acceptance test results, comparing them to contractual standards.
Assist with incident analysis as required.
Create and assist in the generation of FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) and HMA (Hazard Mitigation Analysis).