Director, Engineering - Advanced Energy Storage Development

Energy Vault

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Westlake Village, California, United States

Posted on: 2022-08-26

Category: renewables

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About the company:

Energy Vault is the creator of sustainable energy storage solutions designed to accelerate the transition to a carbon free, resilient power grid and transform the world’s approach to utility-scale energy storage. Energy Vault works to combat climate change by enabling clean and reliable electricity through innovative gravity and kinetic based energy storage technologies. Energy Vault combines innovative design, advanced materials science, and proprietary machine-vision software to orchestrate the storage and dispatch of electrical power by lifting and lowering composite bricks, made from eco-friendly materials. Energy Vault’s commitment to sustainability is reflected in a unique approach to the circular economy which utilizes local industrial and energy waste, including remediated coal ash and recycled wind blades converted to recyclable materials, to build the system’s composite bricks. Energy Vault innovates to enable the global shift to a world powered by renewable resources.

About Energy Vault

Energy Vault develops sustainable energy storage solutions designed to transform the world’s approach to utility-scale energy storage for grid resiliency. Our proprietary gravity-based Energy Storage Technology and the Energy Storage Management and Integration Platform are intended to help utilities, independent power producers and large industrial energy users significantly reduce their levelized cost of energy while maintaining power reliability. Utilizing eco-friendly materials with the ability to integrate waste materials for beneficial re-use, Energy Vault is facilitating the shift to a circular economy while accelerating the clean energy transition for its customers. Energy Vault is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NRGV. For more information, please visit www.energyvault.com.

Position Title: Director, Engineering - Advanced Energy Storage Development

Reports To: Vice President, Advanced Energy Storage Development

Location: Westlake Village, CA or REMOTE (USA)

About the role

We’re seeking a hands-on individual to lead the technical efforts to bring advanced energy storage technologies and products into its solution set. You will play a pivotal role in addressing the industry's key unmet need of low-cost, high-reliability platforms that can perform the core storage function underpinning long-duration energy storage projects. You will use their experience and expertise in grid-scale energy storage projects to assess promising technologies and nascent products based on technical soundness, robustness, intrinsic hazards, supply chain requirements, and overall techno-economic potential. You will be instrumental in selecting promising candidates and developing them for assimilation into Energy Vault's commercial solution portfolio.

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At Energy Vault we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants. We believe inclusion creates opportunity for collaborative excellence through diversity of thought. We invite individuals of all genders, races, identities, ethnicities, sexual orientations, national origins, abilities, protected veteran status, religions, educational and socioeconomic backgrounds to explore employment with our organization.

What you will do

Direct engineering efforts to develop new energy storage products optimized technically andcommercially for deployment in long-duration projects.

Support company's Advanced Energy Storage (AES) roadmap and guide planning across development, demonstration, and deployment phases.

Support identification and assessment of nascent Energy Storage products for incorporation into company's solution portfolio.

Develop technical criteria and lead technical assessment of internal and external Energy Storage technologies into company's AES stage-gate process. Support development and assessment of commercial criteria. Support overall effort by maintaining relationships with universities, national laboratories, and other entities in the field.

Lead design and implementation of advancing AES candidate technologies from TRL 5 through 8 within company's AES stage-gate process. Develop technical criteria for filtering funnel/down selecting at each stage gate.

Support efforts to obtain partner, grant and other funding sources for both development and demonstration.

Work with company's supply chain and manufacturing teams to evaluate and advance AES candidate technologies from MRL 5 through 8.

Work with product management team to ensure adherence to relevant codes and standards as well as obtain required product certifications. Lead AESD department's role in development of required product documentation (design guides, installation manuals, O&M manuals, etc.) and other elements necessary to transfer candidates into company’s commercial solution portfolio.

Work with internal teams to track product specifications, project optimization, and performance of commercially offered lithium-ion & gravity solutions.

Provide occasional consulting and technical support to Energy Vault's commercial projects to stay abreast of state-of-the-art and ensure company's performance.

Shape a culture of collaboration, innovation, constant improvement, excellence, transparency, open mindedness, humility, integrity, efficiency, joy, compassion, and fulfillment.

What a qualified candidate should possess

Master of Science degree or equivalent in Engineering, Physics, or related.

5+ years’ experience designing and engineering of grid-scale energy storage projects.

3+ years’ leading engineering team on grid-scale energy storage project execution.

Understanding of electrochemical, mechanical, thermal, and chemical energy storage technologies. Expertise in fuel cell and/or hydrogen technology and products is desired but not required.

Technical understanding of non-storage core equipment and elements essential to a project (enclosures, PCS, transformers, switchgear, collection arrays, construction, EMS, SCADA, operations, maintenance, etc.).

Understanding of codes, standards, and certification requirements for energy storage products.

Comfort in fast-paced, rapid growth environments.

Experience in public companies is a plus.

A passion for sustainability, our mission, and our vision is a bonus!

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