DER Integration Practices, Programs and Economics Technical Leader
Plans, designs, and controls the progress of complex project work within the technical department to meet member/client objectives; prepares and presents research reports. Significant customer interface component with ability to lead research programs. Manages medium level projects without direct people management responsibilities.
- Provides high-level engineering efforts to support requirements in development and design and provides guidance to junior staff
- Influences project teams in the engineering aspects of the technical work.
- Coordinates and facilitates technical engineering related communications with the client
- Leads proposal efforts and new promotional work.
- Preparing proposals, technical publications/papers, and making presentations. Acts as technical specialist for projects or project tasks.
- Continuing to lead national and international technical networks with manufacturers, consultants, academia, and research organizations.
- Works independently on technical activities without direct supervision
Education:
- Advanced degree in science/engineering or equivalent experience required
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- 10-15 or more years of research and development project and promotional experience, including development of advanced concepts or equivalent experience.
- Ability to recognize strategic issues and projects and build collaborative and successfully complete projects.
- Experience in successful proposal preparation, and marketing activities.
- Shows maturity of technical expertise and assumes responsibility for highly specialized technical objectives using creative imaginative solutions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Continuing to increase depth/breadth in multiple technical areas and recognized as a subject matter expert
- Individual contributor
- Communicates project results to advisors and members, may communicate project status to Sector Council
- Meets with member organizations in support of Sector activities or to communicate Program content and strategy
Particular skills of interest include:
- Application of benefit-cost analysis to assess the economic impacts of integrating an array of technologies (DER, DERMS, smart inverter functions, etc.) into the distribution grid across a range of scenarios and grid typologies.
- Fluency with the time and location value of DER as well as the contextual techno-economic merits of non-wires alternatives (NWA).
- Awareness of utility economics, obligation to serve, and regulatory considerations that inform utility perspectives and decision making.
- Understanding of DER rate structures, especially “value-based” tariffs, and their coordination with interconnection requirements.
- Familiarity with inverter-based DER interconnection standards/certifications (IEEE 1547, CA Rule 21, HI Rule 14, UL 1741, etc.), utility review practices, and potential improvement approaches (particularly for energy storage and PV+storage).
- Conversancy with both utility and third-party DER business model and program design frameworks that can enable emerging DER grid services.
- Knowledge of distribution-connected resources providing bulk-system/market services (value stacking opportunities)
- Benchmarking and comparative analysis of utility DER integration/operational practices.
- Technical writing: able to produce high quality reports, white papers, presentations, and other deliverables that accessibly summarize research results
- Polished public speaking, presentation, and facilitation – both in-person and via webcast – to share study results and lead working/interest group discussions.
- Additional Location: Remote Home Office