Electrical Engineer, Energy Storage Project Engineering

About the company

Redwood Materials is a battery recycling and materials company now rapidly scaling an energy-storage division that repurposes EV batteries to power AI data centers and other large industrial loads.

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><div class="page"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Redwood Materials</strong></span></p> <div> <p><strong>Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling&nbsp;</strong><strong>—&nbsp;</strong><strong>keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017,</strong><strong>&nbsp;we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.</strong></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Redwood Materials is building grid-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), and this role shapes those projects before detailed design and construction begin. As the Electrical Engineer on the Energy Storage Project, you take early, ambiguous inputs and turn them into a buildable scope, a concept design, and a clear permitting and interconnection path. You support active customer pursuits alongside the Business Development and Product teams, then hand a gap-closed engineering package to the detailed design team for execution. The work rewards people who move fast without sacrificing the depth that sets projects up to succeed.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Responsibilities will include:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Produce concept layouts, preliminary single line diagrams, and feasibility studies that confirm buildable area, interconnection viability, and a clear permitting path for early-phase battery energy storage projects</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Serve as the technical engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) point of support for Business Development, supplying scope boundaries, buildability constraints, cost and schedule inputs, and the technical exhibits attached to customer contracts</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Coordinate civil, structural, electrical, architectural, and fire protection engineering disciplines to set the design basis, review studies and layouts, and assemble concept packages against pursuit schedules</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Identify and document viable permitting and interconnection pathways, timelines, and critical site requirements, including zoning, stormwater, environmental constraints, noise limits, and site security and access</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Drive the data and information request checklist to closure, assigning an owner to every item, tracking status, and surfacing scope ambiguities and long-lead items</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Document scope delineation across internal and external responsible parties and deliver the scope and Basis of Design package that formally hands the project to the detailed design team</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Own internal and external engineering resourcing and schedule for assigned early-phase work</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Desired Qualifications:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Bachelor's degree in Engineering, preferably Civil or Electrical, or equivalent experience demonstrating exceptional ability in these fields</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Deep understanding of grid-scale energy storage technologies and balance-of-plant equipment such as inverters, transformers, switchgear, and fire detection systems</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong working knowledge of electrical system design, utility interconnection requirements, and utility-scale project execution, including medium and high voltage systems</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Familiarity with relevant standards and codes, including UL 9540, UL 1973, UL 1741, IEEE, NEC, NFPA, and IEC</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary scopes within architecture/engineering or design engineering firms, with at least 5 years' experience desired</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Project management and/or EPC experience, including commercial or industrial electrical installations and electricity distribution systems</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong communication skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to prioritize and execute tasks in parallel in ambiguous, fast-moving environments</span></li> <li style="font-family: helve