Senior EPC Estimator - APAC

Energy Vault

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Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Posted on: 2025-08-25

Category: renewables

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Energy Vault® develops and deploys utility-scale energy storage solutions designed to transform the world's approach to sustainable energy storage. The company's comprehensive offerings include proprietary gravity-based storage, battery storage, and green hydrogen energy storage technologies. Each storage solution is supported by the Company’s hardware technology-agnostic energy management system software and integration platform.

Unique to the industry, Energy Vault’s innovative technology portfolio delivers customized short-and-long-duration energy storage solutions to help utilities, independent power producers, and large industrial energy users significantly reduce levelized energy costs while maintaining power reliability. Utilizing eco-friendly materials with the ability to integrate waste materials for beneficial reuse, Energy Vault’s EVx™ gravity-based energy storage technology is facilitating the shift to a circular economy while accelerating the global clean energy transition for its customers.

Our Company

Welcome to Energy Vault® (NYSE:NRGV), where our purpose is to enable a sustainably energized world. Our mission is to provide energy solutions that accelerate the global transition to renewable energy. Energy Vault® operates globally with headquarter locations in Westlake Village, California and Lugano, Switzerland, and regional development in multiple locations in Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and China.

Our Company's comprehensive offerings include our proprietary gravity, battery, hybrid/green hydrogen energy storage solutions and our technology-agnostic software suite that orchestrates and integrates multiple energy asset types (storage & generation) while optimizing dispatch, costs, revenues, and overall asset performance. Please visit our Website for more information, our Newsroom for the latest company updates, and connect with us on LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram, Vimeo, or YouTube.

Our Values

We Commit: To Building a Better Future for Earth and All Its Beings.

We Innovate: Cutting Edge Solutions to Accelerate the Unique Energy Aspirations of Our Clients.

We Connect: To Build Genuine Relationships.

We Deliver: Going Above & Beyond by Being Fast & Nimble.

We Lead: With Authenticity and Purpose.

Your Impact as a Senior EPC Estimator - APAC:

We seek an experienced Senior EPC Estimator - APAC to support cost estimation for building Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) projects, initially in Australia. You will be part of the application engineering team and work directly with application engineers, project execution and the commercial team. These projects are based on our technology agnostic energy storage systems to provide dynamic solutions to our clients, including utilities, governments, and industrial companies. As we grow and deliver on more contracts worldwide, you will be responsible for Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) proposal processes globally and play a key role in the global EPC cost framework.

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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.

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Your Mission:

Create turnkey construction RFPs or RFQs and work with procurement and project execution teams to identify suitable construction partner(s)

Work across teams to pull information and resources as necessary to design and differentiate customer-centric solutions into the RFP/RFP package (SLD, layouts, codes and standards, contract flow downs etc)

Run techno-economic analysis to drive optimum design and solution from a constructability point of view

Possess a good understanding of environmental, geotechnical, hydrological reports and their impact to civil construction costs

Possess a good understanding of electrical codes and standards and their application to BESS project construction

Perform electrical and civil take offs and generate construction estimates

Develop the necessary tools and processes to drive continuous improvement in Energy Vault’s customer proposals and offerings

Be able to interpret & create if necessary SLDs and site layouts that accurately represent the proposed solutions

Work with team lead to identify strategic partnerships

Your Background:

5+ years engineering experience with Energy Storage Systems (ESS) and with Renewable Generation technologies

5+ years of construction estimation experience with Renewable Energy Systems

BS in engineering (electrical, mechanical, or similar) strongly preferred, but not required

Licensed electrician in Australia a plus

Existing relationships with Australian based EPC companies

Experience in negotiating EPC contracts with subcontracts

Experience with Renewable Energy Project management is a plus

Experience with electrical power systems designed for power generation, distribution, and storage

Experience managing all aspects of technical solution proposal including site evaluation and analysis, technology selection and optimization, detailed costing and estimating, and EPC contract negotiations

Basic knowledge of NEC, IBC, IEC and IEEE requirements in renewable and energy storage industry

Experience in electrical design including basic conductor sizing, protection and controls configuration, and familiarity with substation design and engineering concepts

Good knowledge and understanding of inverter-based power systems including basic design principles and limitations

Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 20%

Comfortable thriving in fast-paced, rapid growth environments.

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