Manager, Applications Engineering – Professional Engineer

🔥 12 hours ago

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💻 Application Engineer

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Lightserve Corp

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51 - 200 employees

🏗️ Construction

📦 Logistics

⚡ Energy

Construction • Logistics • Energy

Lightserve Corp is an industry leader in national lighting, electrical, and controls projects and services, headquartered in North Carolina. The company specializes in lighting, LED, light maintenance, and offers a range of services including LED retrofits and electrical rollouts. With a commitment to operational excellence and logistical expertise, Lightserve provides 24/7 live support and emergency electrical services, ensuring a swift 4-hour response time, and has gained a reputation for its nationwide coverage and managed services.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop the Applications Engineering team supporting BESS, generator, microgrid, and electrical infrastructure projects from opportunity identification through project turnover to execution. • Provide technical leadership during project pursuit activities, including conceptual design, feasibility evaluations, equipment selection, energy system architecture, and cost optimization. • Partner with Business Development, Estimating, and Execution teams to develop proposals, scopes of work, single-line diagrams, site layouts, and engineering narratives. • Establish and maintain company engineering standards, design guidelines, and best practices. • Oversee preliminary engineering deliverables, including single-line diagrams, equipment site layouts, load flow studies, ampacity analysis, short-circuit analyses, protection and coordination studies, arc flash studies, equipment specifications, utility interconnection support, and permit/AHJ research. • Serve as technical authority for electrical system design, engineering calculations, and Professional Engineering review, signing, and sealing where required. • Coordinate with utilities, ISOs, AHJs, and external engineering partners on interconnections, permitting, and compliance. • Collaborate with Project Management, Procurement, Construction, and Commissioning teams to ensure design intent, constructability, schedule adherence, and project execution. • Support vendor qualification, equipment evaluation, and technical procurement for generators, switchgear, transformers, BESS equipment, inverters, and balance-of-plant systems. • Evaluate technical risks and develop mitigation strategies. • Participate in customer meetings and serve as technical lead during project development, design reviews, and solution presentations. • Drive continuous improvement in engineering efficiency, standardization, quality, and profitability. • Mentor and develop engineering personnel. • Support commissioning, startup, troubleshooting, and operational performance assessments as required. • Travel as needed to customer locations, project sites, vendor facilities, and utility coordination meetings.

🎯 Requirements

• Electrical Engineering degree required. • Valid Electrical Professional Engineering license required. • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. • Active Professional Engineer (PE) license required. • 4+ years of electrical engineering experience supporting power generation, distributed energy, utility, industrial, or EPC projects. • Strong knowledge of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), generator systems, microgrids, MV and LV electrical distribution systems, utility interconnections, and protective relaying and coordination. • Demonstrated experience supporting EPC project development and execution. • Proficiency with AutoCAD and power system analysis software such as ETAP, SKM, or EasyPower. • Knowledge of NEC, NFPA, IEEE, NESC, and applicable utility standards. • Experience preparing technical proposals and supporting customer-facing project development activities. • Strong understanding of switchgear, transfer switches, protection systems, transformers, and distributed energy resources. • Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a rapidly growing business environment. • Experience with utility-scale and commercial/industrial BESS projects. • Experience with renewable energy integration, solar plus storage, and microgrid systems. • Familiarity with utility interconnection studies and processes. • NCEES Record and the ability to obtain reciprocal PE licenses. • Understanding of power markets, grid resiliency, and distributed energy resource applications. • Experience with SEL protection systems and advanced control platforms. • Strong leadership, communication, project management, and organizational skills. • Must undergo post-offer, pre-employment drug testing. • Must meet E-Verify employment requirements.

🏖️ Benefits

• Company-paid medical and dental premiums for employees on our base plan. • Paid parental leave. • Access to vision and other ancillary benefits. • 401(K) including company match after one year. • Company paid long-term disability and life insurance. • Paid time off plus 10 company-paid holidays.