Director of BESS Augmentation

Overview

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for BESS augmentation programs, Superintendents, and technical teams in partnership with project managers.
• Set portfolio priorities, staffing plans, governance, performance expectations, and augmentation strategies.
• Direct safe field execution, outage and resource planning, subcontractor coordination, quality, schedule, testing, commissioning, and turnover.
• Partner with project managers on budgets, procurement, contracts, schedules, forecasts, risks, change control, and closeout.
• Review portfolio safety, quality, schedule, cost, margin, technical risk, commissioning readiness, customer commitments, and corrective actions.
• Develop leaders and technical personnel through coaching, training, succession planning, and performance management.
• Coordinate with internal teams, OEMs, integrators, utilities, contractors, and clients to align execution and resolve escalated issues.
• Standardize project controls, reporting, installation and commissioning practices, and lessons learned to improve consistency and profitability.
• Lead BESS safety planning and compliance, including electrical safe work, lockout/tagout, energized work, emergency response, environmental requirements, and OEM procedures.
• Support estimating, scope development, procurement, and vendor quotations for batteries, enclosures, power conversion, transformers, controls, HVAC, fire systems, cabling, and related upgrades.
• Oversee installation and integration of BESS electrical, mechanical, controls, communications, thermal-management, and fire-protection systems.
• Support operating sites with augmentation planning, capacity restoration, compatibility assessments, troubleshooting, and execution.
• Lead cross-functional resolution of battery, OEM, firmware, controls, and balance-of-system issues through documented ownership and closure.
• Review forecasts, profit and loss, estimating accuracy, contingency, and margin-improvement actions.
• Maintain lifecycle oversight from opportunity qualification and feasibility through design, procurement, installation, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Develop BESS augmentation, optimization, reliability, and lifecycle-service opportunities with Business Development, Asset Management, and project teams.
• Train regional teams and improve safety, constructability, repeatability, schedule, cost, quality, and operational performance.
• Travel at least 30% to support projects, sites, clients, and team development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred (including but not limited to engineering or business)
• Experience in large-scale manufacturing, construction, or energy industries, preferably with a technology-focused company
• Ability to communicate and build relationships with senior leadership, customers, and project stakeholders
• Strong commercial judgment, business acumen, and familiarity with project finance and contracts
• Willing to travel 30%+
• Experience managing teams, including managers and superintendents
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Ability to work at remote project sites and in field conditions
• Availability to provide executive escalation support for critical incidents, including occasional after-hours or weekend events
• Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring employer sponsorship now or in the future

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Basic life and disability insurance
• 401(k) plan enrollment
• Vacation, sick, and holiday pay