Engineering Specialist Job in Portland 97201, Oregon Us
duties:
- Visit clients, putting together energy analyses, developing recommendations, and identifying savings opportunities. May provide technical expertise and market analysis to management to enable the company’s strategic decision-making.
- Provide technical advice to program teams to resolve product or service requests regarding engineering, technical or scientific issues.
- Perform on-site energy audits, developing energy analyses including recommendations for operational efficiencies and identifying energy savings opportunities.
- Provide technical expertise in specific areas of expertise to Efficiency teams, clients, industry partners, and potential clients with the expectation of representing all the services available.
- Provide support in both pre- and post-sales by attending presentations, white papers, product demonstrations, and installations / implementations.
- Responsible for the analysis of technical services and systems.
- May recommend alterations to service development and design to improve quality of services and/or procedures.
- Provide mentoring and training in area of expertise to other team members.
- Responsible to track, verify, and validate energy program and carbon mitigation savings.
- Under direction from the program manager or Lead Engineer, assist in business development opportunities with companies in the manufacturing, food processing and other related industries.
- Create and develop relationships with both technical and business operations managers and other key players.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Advanced knowledge of energy conservation, design, applicable codes and standards preferred.
- Knowledge of the applicability of established energy engineering principles, methods and techniques.
- Knowledge of advanced mathematical techniques, such as trigonometry, calculus, and coordinate geometry with no errors.
- Strong QA/QC and efficient data error checking.
- Organize, analyze, interpret, and evaluate scientific energy engineering problems and provide practical, cost effective solutions.
- Solid foundation in both analytical skills and field experience.
- Able to manage small to medium projects under supervision of senior staff.
- Able to discuss content with client with clear defined limits.
- Strong understanding of the audit process.
- Skills in data collection and interpretation.
- Ability to travel
- Self directed and highly organized in approach to work.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
- Ability to create technical reports while having a strong understanding of client needs is required
- Strong ability to communicate to a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders verbally and through writing.
- Expert with Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Competency with MS Project or other project management tools is preferred.
- Experience in reading and understanding blueprints and drawings.