Associate Director, Performance Engineering

Roles and Responsibilities

• Oversee the fulfillment of the technical requirements of the Asset Management contracts and consulting services.
• Define team direction. Develop, resource and manage large scope and long-term projects, making resource, scope, and delivery tradeoffs as necessary. Review work products and progress to ensure success.
• Facilitate meetings with external stakeholders and cross-functional teams. Resolve issues within and across teams. Mentor team and lower-level managers on job specific roles, communication, and collaboration.
• Establish and assure adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance requirements. Develop compensation planning, career coaching, training, and administer company policies for the team.
• Working with company senior management, drive cross-functional team improvement initiatives to optimize the business, and propose updates to team policies and SOPs. Support development of strategic directions within the team.
• Oversee and drive development of new technology services including processes, procedures, AI tools, and required software updates.
• Lead and oversee technical asset management activities for battery energy storage system (BESS) projects, including operational performance, availability, warranty review, degradation analysis, and coordination with OEMs, operators, and internal stakeholders.
• Review of monthly and annual invoicing calculation support documentation against energy contracts to validate required calculations, metrics.

Required Qualifications & Education

• 4-8 years management experience
• Proven documentation, presentation, and communication skills with working teams and senior level management, CEOs, boards of directors
• University Degree (or equivalent) with 8+ years domain experience
• Experience managing utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects, including operations, performance monitoring, contract compliance, and technical issue resolution.
• Masters/Graduate and 6+ years domain experience

Required Skills & Competencies

• Proven ability to set direction and drive large cross functional team to success. Able to work as part of a larger team.
• Proven success in personnel management, coaching & mentoring.
• Proven ability to liaise with clients/internal management on significant issues that require high level management intervention in a professional manner.
• Root cause analysis & process improvement. Big picture thinking that drives teams to meet organizational goals and provides cross-functional improvements.
• Proven project and people management skills - organizing work, planning, monitoring and making tradeoffs to ensure quality deliveries.
• Working knowledge of BESS operational performance drivers, including availability, round-trip efficiency, capacity degradation, augmentation planning, safety considerations, and root cause analysis for equipment or controls-related issues.

Required Software Knowledge

• Expertise in MS Office MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe PDF toolsets

Preferred Experience

• Second level management of a large team
• Successful delivery of large, high impact, cross functional projects
• Process improvement experience with Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt
• Experience in the green energy or utilities domain
• Direct experience with BESS project commissioning, commercial operations, performance engineering, warranty claims, augmentation strategy, or revenue-impacting availability and dispatch issues.
• Experience with a U.S. based company

Preferred Skills & Competencies

• Root cause analysis and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills with the ability to distill information and present it in an understandable manner appropriate for the audience
• Training creation, process improvement
• Coaching / leadership skills