DER Integration Technical Leader

Job Title:DER Integration Technical Leader

Location:EPRI Knoxville Office, EPRI Palo Alto, Remote/Home Based

Job Summary and Description:

EPRI’s DER Integration team is seeking to fill Technical Leader position to lead research on DER Management Systems. The candidate will apply his/her technical expertise to develop solutions to complex problems on the topic of DER control and optimization. The position will also require organizing external and interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the project/tasks on schedule and within budget.
 

A strong applicant will possess the following qualities:

• Ability to guide and provide insights to the design and deployment of enterprise DERMS platform and processes for member utilities.

• Demonstrated technical knowledge of solar PV, inverters, energy storage, conventional generation, their interconnection standards (IEEE 1547, CA Rule 21, HI Rule 14) and communication protocols (SunSpec, DNP3, 2030.5)

• DERMS marketplace familiarity - involved companies, available products, trends

• Familiarity with the technical concepts on virtual power plants (VPPs) and DER aggregations (DERA).

• Background in testing controls and optimization algorithms for management of solar PV, battery storage, and load.

• Familiarity with DER providing bulk-system/market services

• Ability to effectively communicate highly complex ideas with credibility, confidence, and clarity to diverse audiences through technical publications/papers and making presentations.

• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams distributed geographically

• Skill in writing crisp and clear emails that put a course of action on strong technical footing;

• Experience drafting research proposals

Key Responsibilities & Requirements:

• Works independently on technical activities without direct supervision

• Conducts technical searches and analyzes information in support of the project team

• Demonstrates responsibility for highly specialized technical objectives or problems where the relationships between cause and effect are difficult to establish and little or no precedence exists, and the use of creative and imaginative thinking is required.

• Applies technical expertise, and has full knowledge of other related disciplines

• Develops technical solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.

Additional Requirements:

• Has developed relationships with primary advisors to a research area

• Provides assistance to the EPRI sales staff in Member Services and EPRI International

• Communicates strategies and results, written and verbal, to program members, potential members and external stakeholders through guidelines, reports, meetings, webcasts, workshops and conferences

• Continues to communicate work across EPRI programs to make sure parallel work is informed.

• May provide oversight of a project team to assure technical and financial milestones are met

• Organizes the external and interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the …