Senior Engineer / Manager - Incentive and Innovation
Responsibilities
The Senior Engineer/Manager - Incentive and Innovation reports to the VP of Innovation and is responsible for identifying innovative utility incentives and grants to enhance the ROI of energy service projects, including those related to Energy Efficiency, Water Efficiency, and Waste/Carbon Management
This role requires expertise in identifying utility, state, federal, and other incentive programs, including rebates, tax deductions, and custom performance-based measures
The Senior Engineer/Manager will develop measurement and verification protocols to assess achieved savings, support the energy engineering teams across all regions, and contribute to proposals for utility grants and large incentive RFPs
Additionally, they will conduct pre- and post-performance incentive analyses to optimize available incentives and introduce innovative technologies and products to enhance value for customers and strengthen proposal offerings
In this role, 40% of your time will be spent:
- Seeking out new opportunities for revenue, grants, RFPs, and incentives to help improve project economics,
- Managing the pipeline of projects submitted through the various programs for incentives to receive grants, and Developing an approved M&V strategy for maximizing incentives Energy Performance Engineering Analysis is 45% of your time in this role
- Guiding the engineering team on the best strategy for incentives and to assisting to estimate the potential incentives
- Developing detailed spreadsheet calculations and energy models as required by the incentive programs,
- Submitting applications incentives for various programs along with supporting energy savings analysis to receive the incentives or grants,
- Managing/installing data loggers for data trends to measure the pre-baseline and post data as required to receive the incentive,
- Measuring pre-and-post data for the ECMs submitted as per the program requirements,
- Developing the detailed energy savings analysis and performance measurement calculations for submittals
- Engaging and innovating products, processes for Energy Efficiency, Demand Management, Energy
- Vetting the products for effectiveness and introducing new products to the team