Project Engineer

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ContourGlobal

ContourGlobal is a KKR-backed next-generation Independent Power Producer (IPP) operating across the United States, Latin America, Europe and Africa. The company manages a diversified portfolio of nearly6 GW of renewable generation, flexible thermal power and battery energy storage assets, providing reliable, dispatchable power solutions that support the transition to a more electrified and sustainable future.

ContourGlobal is transforming into a predominantly renewable power platform through the decarbonization of its thermal fleet and the development of large-scale renewable energy and battery storage projects. Leveraging its in-house development, engineering and operational capabilities, the company currently has more than2 GW of renewable and BESS projects under construction and approximately15 GW in development.

Building on its advanced commercial and energy management capabilities, ContourGlobal partners with utilities, industrial customers and digital infrastructure operators to deliver tailored power solutions through long-term contracts, corporate PPAs and powered-land solutions that shorten time-to-market for data center developments.

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Job Summary

As Senior Project Engineer, you will join our Global Operations / Performance team In this role, you will report to the Americas Technical Director and will have the opportunity to lead and coordinate the full engineering program for utility-scale solar PV and BESS projects, serving as the central technical integrator across internal SMEs, external consultants, EPC contractors, and equipment suppliers. Acting as the owner’s representative, you will drive engineering strategy from due diligence and acquisition through design, permitting, construction, and COD, ensuring projects are technically sound, commercially optimized, and delivered on schedule and within budget while effectively managing cross-disciplinary risks. Join us to drive the right power forward and make clean energy the natural choice for all

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the overall engineering program for each project from acquisition through COD, establishing and maintaining the engineering schedule and deliverables across all disciplines.
• Serve as the single point of accountability for engineering quality and completeness, coordinating civil, electrical, structural, and SCADA/I&C workstreams to ensure integrated, conflict-free design packages.
• Lead engineering kick-off meetings, design progress reviews, and cross-discipline coordination meetings; manage action item tracking and issue resolution across consultant teams and internal SMEs.

Technical Due Diligence & Acquisition Support

• Synthesize discipline-level findings into an integrated risk matrix and executive-ready acquisition memo, translating technical issues into commercial impact and recommended mitigation strategies.
• Work with engineering specialists to provide consolidated engineering CapEx inputs for acquisition financial models.

Consultant & EPC Procurement and Management

• Support RFPs, evaluate proposals, negotiate contracts, and manage all consultant and EPC technical interfaces throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate and integrate consultant deliverables across disciplines, ensuring cross-discipline consistency and identifying gaps or conflicts before they reach the EPC or permitting stage.
• Manage the overall design process from 30% through IFC and as-built, ensuring design milestones are met and inter-discipline conflicts are resolved.
• Coordinate equipment procurement interfaces, including review of PV module, inverter, tracker, BESS, and transformer technical specifications.
• Manage value engineering exercises, identifying opportunities to reduce CapEx without compromising technical performance, reliability, or interconnection compliance.

Construction Phase Technical Oversight

• Serve as the owner’s engineering lead during construction, overseeing EPC technical performance and coordinating discipline SME site visits, submittal reviews, and RFI responses.
• Review and adjudicate EPC RFIs, submittal reviews, and change order requests from an integrated, cross-discipline perspective; elevate issues requiring discipline SME input and consolidate owner responses.
• Oversee commissioning and startup activities across all engineering disciplines, coordinating with the EPC, equipment vendors, utility, and O&M provider through Substantial Completion and COD.
• Develop and maintain company-wide engineering standards, design criteria, and specification templates for consistent portfolio-wide application.
• Lead post-COD lessons-learned reviews and translate