Redwood Materials
BESS Project Engineer, Senior or Staff
San Francisco, California, United States · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- Today Redwood is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America - recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain.
- On the energy side, Redwood has deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world, delivering power to AI data centers in months rather than years using proprietary energy architecture engineered entirely in-house.
- The Senior or Staff BESS Project Engineer joins as an early member of a new engineering team working on our Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) product line.
Responsibilities
- Own the integrated schedule, budget tracker, and risk register for each assigned project, and proactively identify and escalate schedule or cost risks
- Partner with Product Engineering on equipment selection, bill of materials alignment, and technical scope definition, and retain change control over the Basis of Design across the project lifecycle
- Oversee commissioning readiness and test plan execution, and manage structured handoff documentation to Operations and Maintenance
- Maintain project data in project management tooling, provide planning inputs and deployment forecasting to leadership, and capture lessons learned into repeatable delivery templates, checklists, and execution standards
- Drive end-to-end project execution from requirements scoping and Business Development handoff through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and Operations and Maintenance handoff
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Program Management, Business, or a related discipline
- Deep program management experience in battery energy storage, renewable energy, or utility-scale power infrastructure such as peaker plants, combined-cycle generation, and substations
- Staff level reflects a broader track record leading a portfolio of projects
- Familiarity with key BESS-related standards such as UL 9540, UL 9540A, UL 1973, UL 1741, IEEE, NEC (NFPA 70), NFPA 855, and IEC
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- Deep program management experience in battery energy storage, renewable energy, or utility-scale power infrastructure such as peaker plants, combined-cycle generation, and substations; Staff level reflects a broader track record leading a portfolio of projects
- Demonstrated experience managing projects from scoping through commissioning and Operations and Maintenance handoff, with ownership of schedule, budget, and risk
- Strong cross-functional communication skills, comfortable managing up, down, and across internal and external EPC, customer, and internal engineering teams
- Willingness to travel to project sites as needed
- A Passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!
Skills
- Actual compensation may vary based on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and skills.
Compensation
- $160,000 - $252,000 USD
- Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
Company info
- About Redwood Materials Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, on a simple but radical idea: the critical minerals powering the energy transition already exist.
- Serve as the primary interface between Business Development, Product Engineering, internal and external EPC partners, and customers across all project phases
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