Engineering Leader PV (Milan, Madrid, Sofia)

ContourGlobal is an established Independent Power Producer developing, acquiring, and operating electricity generation assets worldwide. The company currently manages more than 6.2 GW of installed capacity across different generation technologies in 18 countries across Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America. With a current share of renewables capacity of 27%, the company has committed to speed up the decarbonization of its portfolio with a sustainable transition of its thermal fleet, the repowering of existing renewable assets and the organic development of new renewable projects. ContourGlobal, a KKR company since 2022, has a track record of almost 20 years of experience in partnering with communities, institutions, and customers that benefit from its power supply through long-term contracts or innovative PPAs, coupled with energy management solutions.

The Team Leader Engineering PV plants will develop PV plant designs, using energy yield assessments, layout optimization and state of the art component configurations in multiple design iterations to determine lowest cost of energy (LCOE) and will manage external engineering company to review and optimize the final project design. Cooperate strictly with Construction team and procurement office for the success of the project. He will be key in evaluating greenfield projects to be developed/acquired and general contractor design in order to optimize the final outcome. This key member of the Engineering team embodies curiosity and creativity, innovating constantly to optimize IRR through multiple tools and deep knowledge of latest technology trends. He is an optimization evangelist who truly enjoys a creative and driven approach to building high value solar farms.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Project Development and Implementation

• Create utility scale photovoltaic (PV) solar design, including equipment selection, energy modeling, and optimization to design the highest performing integrated systems. Cooperate with colleagues to optimize hybrid plants.
• Conduct engineering reviews and technical due diligence, including evaluation of system components, cables sizing, configuration, and environmental conditions to confirm reliable energy production estimates that optimize capacity, production, and cost. He reviews, comments and validate basic and preliminary design and any other engineering step of the outsourced engineering company and the execution design issued by the general contractor.
• Identify new PV and equipment technologies to maximize internal rate of return (solar modules, PV inverters, tracking structures, components for electrical connection to the grid and other pertinent technologies).
• Cooperate with Procurement Function to assess the technical offers and proposals to ensure compliance with the requirements of the project and the comparability between all the offers to select the best value for money components and services. 
• Support Construction team to solve technical issues and modifications and visit the plants, once under construction to overview compliance with the design.
• Maintain appropriate documentation of technical data consistent with engineering best policies and practices.
• Confirm with industry standards to optimize project designs for constraints, including geography, schedule, scope and financial constraints.
• Prepare other technical documents, reports, and calculations as necessary.
• Build a small team to support the above activities as the pipeline grows.

Project Assessment

• Run various production estimates in pursuit of highest IRR using specialized software tools, as input for financial models.
• Develop energy yield assessments (EYAs) to aid in the optimization of high value projects.

COMMIT TO OUR VALUES:

• Commit to CG values as expressed in the Essential Information. Model the values in any interaction internally and externally.
• Put Health and Safety First
• Embrace Timely Transparency
• Model the 3Cs – Communication, Collaboration and Coordination
• Embrace Failure analysis and continuous improvement including Five Whys

QUALIFICATION AND SKILLS:

• University degree in Electrical Engineering, Renewable Energy, or a related field.
• At least 7 years’ experience designing and optimizing utility scale solar projects.
• A history of success in complex solar projects.
• Knowledge of the renewable energy industry, and development processes related to large scale wind, solar, and storage.
• Strong project management skills with experience with relational databases to track and report information.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail
• Proven ability to build strong professional relationships and work in a team.

Travel Requirements – up to 20%, upon business needs.

ContourGlobal provides equal employment opportunities and maintains a diverse workforce that reflects the rich environment of the society we live in and markets we operate.