Technical Director – Multidisciplinary Power Engineering

Electric Power Engineers • Austin, TX

2d • Remote

About The Position

The Technical Director – Multidisciplinary Power Engineering provides senior technical leadership across planning, design, review, and delivery of power generation, substation, and grid infrastructure projects. The role requires broad working knowledge of civil, structural, high-voltage and medium-voltage electrical, protection and control, SCADA, and telecommunications engineering, along with a practical understanding of how these disciplines coordinate throughout a project lifecycle.

The Technical Director evaluates design maturity, technical completeness, quality, constructability, and coordination across disciplines and project phases. The role identifies missing inputs, scope gaps, interface risks, and sequencing issues, and guides teams and clients through complex technical decisions using practical, risk-based recommendations. The position also supports owner’s and independent engineering, technical due diligence, client relationships, business development, technical standards, and mentoring. It is a highly visible leadership role involving clients, developers, OEMs, EPC contractors, investors, and internal engineering teams.

This is a remote U.S. position with occasional travel of 10% or less. EPE describes itself as an energy consulting and software company focused on complex engineering and grid modeling, renewables, and a modern, secure, and resilient grid.

Requirements

• Minimum 20 years of experience in the design and delivery of power generation, substation, or grid infrastructure projects.
• Strong working knowledge of civil, structural, HV electrical, MV electrical, protection and control, SCADA, and telecommunications engineering in 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.
• Ability to assess technical completeness, coordination, design maturity, constructability, and technical risk across multiple project phases.
• Proven ability to identify and resolve cross-discipline risks, scope gaps, interface issues, and sequencing concerns.
• Experience with utility-scale generation technologies such as solar, BESS, wind, RICE, and gas-fired generation.
• Familiarity with substation design, collector systems, interconnection facilities, and balance-of-plant scope 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 a wide range of stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including translating technical findings into clear business and project impacts.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills, including the ability to manage multiple initiatives and competing deadlines.
• Collaborative leadership style and a track record of mentoring teams and building strong internal partnerships.
• Ability to balance technical excellence, project execution priorities, client needs, and long-term business growth.

Nice To Haves

• Professional Engineer 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 efforts.
• Knowledge of technical due diligence, owner’s engineering, or bankability review processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary technical reviews for power generation, substation, and balance-of-plant projects from early development through IFC design.
• Lead integrated multidisciplinary engineering efforts across generation, substation, and grid interconnection projects.
• Serve as the senior technical authority across civil, structural, HV electrical, MV electrical, protection and control, SCADA, and telecommunications disciplines.
• Assess discipline interdependencies and confirm teams have the inputs, assumptions, criteria, and upstream information needed to begin work.
• Evaluate design maturity, technical completeness, quality, coordination, and constructability throughout project development and execution.
• Verify engineering deliverables are complete and coordinated to support downstream design, procurement, permitting, construction, commissioning, and operations.
• Identify missing inputs, scope gaps, interface risks, sequencing issues, and other technical or execution risks; communicate them before they affect project outcomes.
• Review engineering packages for technical quality, consistency, constructability, and alignment with project objectives.
• Resolve or escalate design conflicts between disciplines and support timely decisions.
• Provide senior oversight of design basis documents, technical narratives, drawing packages, equipment integration, and major engineering deliverables.
• Guide internal teams and clients through complex technical decisions with practical, risk-based recommendations.
• 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 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 for multidisciplinary engineering.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads and foster collaboration, accountability, and engineering excellence.
• Represent EPE in external meetings, conferences, industry working groups, and professional organizations.
• Build trusted client relationships and help expand EPE’s technical advisory capabilities.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% premium coverage for the employee.
• Generous paid time off.
• Paid holidays.
• MyShare Employee Ownership Program.
• 401(k) with up to a 4% match, 100% vested from day one.
• Work with industry leaders.

What This Job Offers

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