Technical Director – Multidisciplinary Power Engineering

Electric Power Engineers • Austin, TX

9h • Remote

About The Position

The Technical Director – Multidisciplinary Power Engineering provides senior technical leadership across the planning, design, review, and delivery of power generation, substation, and grid infrastructure projects. The role requires broad, practical knowledge of civil, structural, high-voltage and medium-voltage electrical, protection and control, SCADA, and telecommunications engineering. The director evaluates design completeness, technical quality, constructability, and coordination between disciplines throughout project phases, ensuring discipline teams have the necessary inputs and produce deliverables that support downstream engineering, procurement, permitting, construction, commissioning, and operations.

This highly visible leadership role calls for strong technical judgment, multidisciplinary coordination, and clear communication with clients, developers, OEMs, EPC contractors, investors, and internal engineering teams. The director leads technical reviews and discussions, resolves or escalates design conflicts and interface risks, advises on complex decisions, oversees major engineering deliverables, and supports project execution and client relationships. The role also contributes to proposals, business development, standards, and best practices, and mentors engineers and technical leads.

Electric Power Engineers (EPE) is a power and energy consulting and energy intelligence software company that works with clients globally on engineering and grid modeling challenges. The position is remote within the U.S., with occasional travel of 10% or less. EPE describes its work as focused on building a modern, secure, and resilient grid.

Requirements

• At least 20 years of experience in the design and delivery of power generation, substation, or grid infrastructure projects.
• Strong working knowledge of civil, structural, high-voltage electrical, medium-voltage electrical, protection and control, SCADA, and telecommunications engineering for utility-scale power projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading or overseeing multidisciplinary engineering teams across the listed engineering scopes.
• Deep understanding of the engineering lifecycle, including discipline inputs and outputs, design milestones, and handoffs across project stages.
• Strong understanding of design basis development, engineering phase gates, and discipline-specific input and output requirements.
• Proven ability to assess design completeness, technical maturity, constructability, and technical risk across project phases.
• Proven capability to identify and resolve cross-discipline risks, scope gaps, interface issues, and sequencing concerns.
• Experience with utility-scale generation technologies such as solar, battery energy storage systems (BESS), wind, reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICE), and gas-fired generation.
• Familiarity with substation design, collector systems, interconnection facilities, and balance-of-plant integration.
• Experience supporting owner’s engineering, EPC execution, design reviews, technical advisory, or independent engineering assignments.
• Strong knowledge of engineering deliverables, drawing development, equipment integration, and project execution workflows.
• Ability to lead detailed technical discussions and high-level strategic conversations with owners, developers, EPCs, OEMs, financial stakeholders, and other parties.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to provide practical, defensible recommendations on complex engineering challenges.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including translating technical findings into clear business and project impacts.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills, including managing multiple initiatives and competing deadlines.
• Collaborative leadership style with a track record of mentoring teams and building internal partnerships.

Nice To Haves

• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Experience supporting projects through development, detailed design, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness.
• Familiarity with U.S. utility and energy market structures, permitting pathways, and project delivery models.
• Experience participating in client presentations, proposal strategy, and business development.
• Knowledge of technical due diligence, owner’s engineering, or bankability review processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated multidisciplinary engineering efforts across power generation, substation, balance-of-plant, and grid interconnection projects.
• Serve as senior technical authority across civil, structural, high-voltage electrical, medium-voltage electrical, protection and control, SCADA, and telecommunications disciplines.
• Lead multidisciplinary technical reviews from early development through issued-for-construction (IFC) design.
• Assess discipline interdependencies and confirm engineering teams have required inputs, assumptions, criteria, and upstream information.
• Verify that deliverables are complete, coordinated, and sufficiently developed to support downstream design, procurement, permitting, construction, commissioning, and operations.
• Evaluate design maturity, technical quality, consistency, and constructability against project objectives.
• Identify and communicate technical, execution, interface, scope, and sequencing risks before they affect project delivery.
• Resolve or escalate design conflicts between disciplines and support timely decisions with practical, risk-based recommendations.
• Provide senior oversight of design basis documents, technical narratives, drawing packages, equipment integration, and major engineering deliverables.
• Work with project managers and discipline leads on planning, resource alignment, deliverable quality, and schedule adherence.
• Support owner’s engineering, independent engineering, design reviews, and technical due diligence assignments.
• Lead technical discussions with clients, developers, lenders, OEMs, EPC contractors, and other external stakeholders.
• Contribute to proposals, project scoping, technical approach documents, and strategic business development.
• Refine and maintain technical standards, review tools, lessons learned, and best-practice guidance.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads and promote collaboration, accountability, and engineering excellence.
• Represent EPE in external meetings, conferences, industry working groups, and professional organizations.
• Support strategic growth by building client relationships and expanding technical advisory capabilities.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% premium coverage for the employee.
• Generous paid time off and paid holidays.
• MyShare Employee Ownership Program.
• Opportunity to work with industry leaders.
• 401(k) with up to a 4% company match, 100% vested from day one.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed