Director, Renewable Project Engineering
InvenergyChicago, IL
Full Time
Posted September 22, 2026
$180k - $220k
Renewable Energy Development
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- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed October 5, 2026
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Job Description
As Director of Project Engineering, Renewable Engineering, you will lead Invenergy’s Project Engineering function for wind, solar, and hybrid projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop Invenergy’s Project Engineering function, supporting wind, solar, BESS, and hybrid projects across Invenergy’s renewable portfolio.
- Refine expectations for Project Engineers to ensure consistent technical delivery of projects, according to specifications and stakeholder obligations.
- Oversee Project Engineering coordination with other project stakeholders, including wind, solar, BESS, electrical, SCADA, transmission, civil, structural, GIS, environmental compliance, construction, and operations engineering teams.
- Ensure effective management of technical workstreams, including drawing reviews, RFIs, submittals, NCRs, technical issue resolution, engineering deliverables, and escalation of complex coordination challenges.
- Strengthen alignment between Project Engineering and Project Management for project technical and commercial success.
- Serve as a senior technical leader and escalation point for complex engineering coordination challenges across active projects.
- Manage relationship and engagement protocols with Consultants and Owner’s Engineers.
- Provide leadership on project engineering support for financing and independent engineer due diligence, including coordination of technical responses and alignment with project assumptions.
- Drive portfolio-level improvements to specifications, contract exhibits, design reviews, scopes of work, and technical standards using lessons learned from construction, commissioning, testing, and operations.
- Develop and manage Project Engineering resource allocation, workload balancing and hiring strategy to ensure adequate support across all projects and project phases.
- Lead formal lessons-learned and root-cause analysis programs across construction, commissioning, and operations to improve project outcomes, reduce execution risk, and enhance engineering standards
- Own portfolio-level technical risk identification, mitigation planning, and escalation processes, ensuring integration with project controls, commercial strategy, and executive decision-making.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in renewable energy, power generation, engineering, project execution, construction, project management, or related technical leadership roles.
- 5+ years of experience leading engineers, technical teams, consultants, or cross-functional project teams.
- Experience supporting utility-scale wind, solar, BESS, or hybrid projects through contracting, design, construction, commissioning, testing, and/or commercial operation.
- Strong understanding of EPC contracts, offtake agreements, interconnection requirements, scopes of work, specifications, engineering deliverables, construction support, commissioning, and closeout.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary technical coordination across internal teams, consultants, contractors, suppliers, utilities, customers, and other stakeholders.
- Strong technical judgment, risk identification, change management, communication, and leadership skills needed to build and scale a Project Engineering function.
- Able to travel up to 10-20% of the time to project sites, vendor facilities, customer meetings, and internal offices, as needed.
- Eligible to work in the United States without the need for employer visa sponsorship now or in the future.
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