Battery Storage Project Manager

Posted 25 March 2020
LocationMelbourne
Job type Permanent
Discipline Renewable Energy & Infrastructure
Contact NameTim Hall

Job description

Summary: 

A growing engineering consultancy, who provide services to large scale wind, solar and battery projects are seeking a Battery Storage Project Manager for their Central Melbourne office.  With an increasing list of assignments, this is an exciting stage of the company’s journey. As Storage Project Manager you will be responsible for leading high profile technical and engineering advisory projects in the storage sector across Australia.

 

Your responsibilities:

As Storage Project Manager, you will:

·       Participate in proposals for battery storage projects, creating a clearly defined scope and an understanding of the project deliverables

·       Facilitate and head up regular project status meetings with the internal project team and major stakeholders

·       Form a budget to satisfy the client’s expectations

·       Ensure project deliverables remain on time, on budget, and on target

·       Propose mitigation strategies to barriers, risks and issues identified with projects

·       Ensure use of best practice on projects

·       Clarify and communicate project objectives with the client

·       Create a communication plan and project status reports

·       Support business development activities

·       Work on improving the battery storage sector in Australia by thoroughly reviewing technical services in site selection, programme design, storage site suitability studies, plant design, site layouts, energy production, due diligence, field dimensions and engineering analysis

·       Attend conferences business and client meetings as required;

·       You will also be required to be the technical lead in other renewable related projects eg wind/solar where required.

 

Skills, qualifications and experience required from you:

·       Bachelor's degree in Engineering

·       Experience in managing battery storage projects in Australia

·       6 years’ + renewable energy experience

·       Good knowledge of technical best practices in Australia and local knowledge of storage developments including construction and operation

·       Strong working knowledge of programming languages eg Python, MATLAB etc

·       Strong written and verbal communication skills

·       Good interpersonal skills

·       Eligibility to live and work in Australia

·       Ability to travel when required