Advisory Services Lead

Resource Innovations is seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to join our growing team. As an Engineering Lead with Resource Innovations, you will provide technical leadership and project management support for energy-efficiency studies, utility programs, and engineering initiatives serving commercial and industrial customers.

This position will manage technical projects, supervise staff, coordinate engineering and analytical resources, and oversee the quality and timely completion of client deliverables. The successful candidate will provide expertise in electricity and natural gas end-use systems, energy-savings analysis, measurement and verification, and the development of technical methodologies and tools.

This position may be performed remotely from any US state or Ontario, Canada. The role requires up to 20% travel to project sites across Canada and United States.

Resource Innovations (RI) is a women-led energy transformation firm focused on impact. Building on our expertise in energy efficiency, we're constantly expanding our portfolio of clean energy solutions to guide utilities through increasingly complex, connected challenges. Load flexibility. Electrification. Carbon reduction. With every step, we're leading the charge to power change.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop technical algorithms, calculation tools, data-collection instruments, and work papers to support program design, evaluation, and savings estimation.
• Develop scopes of work, technical approaches, project plans, and budgets for energy-efficiency studies and utility program support.
• Perform and review energy-savings analyses for commercial and industrial systems, including HVAC, building controls, lighting, refrigeration, compressed air, building envelope, and natural gas end uses.
• Provide technical expertise in natural gas technologies, including space and water heating, boilers, furnaces, process heating, steam systems, and other gas-fired equipment.
• Lead measurement and verification activities using engineering calculations, utility billing analysis, regression modeling, and energy simulation.
• Use Python, spreadsheets, and analytical tools to clean, process, analyze, automate, and visualize energy and program data.
• Research emerging energy-efficiency technologies and develop scoping-level savings calculations.
• Review technical calculations, evaluation reports, and deliverables for accuracy, quality, and compliance with applicable requirements.
• Lead and contribute to technical reports, presentations, white papers, and proposals for utility clients and regulatory stakeholders.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Energy Engineering, or a directly related field with at least four years of relevant experience; or a master’s degree in a related field with at least three years of relevant experience.
• Experience developing and reviewing energy-savings calculations for commercial and industrial systems, including natural gas end uses.
• Experience managing technical projects, including scopes, budgets, schedules, staff assignments, and client deliverables.
• Experience using Python and/or Excel for data cleaning, statistical analysis, regression modeling, automation, and data visualization.
• Experience conducting measurement and verification using engineering calculations, utility billing analysis, interval data, or regression modeling.
• Interest in sustainability and passionate about making a meaningful impact on the environment.

Preferred skills, education and experience

• Experience with natural gas technologies, including boilers, furnaces, water heating, process heating, steam systems, and building controls.
• Experience reviewing technical resource manuals and applying ASHRAE standards, CSA standards, and energy-efficiency program requirements.
• Experience reviewing third-party program evaluation reports and assessing reported savings, methodologies, assumptions, and incentive calculations.
• Experience conducting field inspections of HVAC, natural gas equipment, building automation systems, and controls.
• Experience developing technical algorithms, analytical tools, and scoping-level savings estimates for emerging energy-efficiency technologies.

Benefits