Associate Director, Performance Engineering

Radian Generation

$135K — $145K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-8 years of management experience in a related field.
  • Strong documentation, presentation, and communication skills across different management levels.
  • University degree (or equivalent) plus 8+ years of domain experience in energy management.
  • Experience in managing utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects with focus on operations and compliance.
  • Master's degree or equivalent with at least 6 years of relevant domain experience.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee technical fulfillment of Asset Management contracts and consulting services.
  • Define team direction and manage large scope long-term projects while making necessary trade-offs.
  • Facilitate and resolve issues in cross-functional team meetings with external stakeholders.
  • Establish and ensure adherence to budgets, schedules, and performance standards.
  • Drive process and policy improvements within the team consulting with senior management.
  • Lead the development of new technology services and necessary software updates.
  • Manage technical asset activities for BESS projects, focusing on performance and warranty analysis.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work opportunity available across the United States.
Full Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities

  • Oversee the fulfillment of the technical requirements of the Asset Management contracts and consulting services.
  • Define team direction. Develop, resource and manage large scope and long-term projects, making resource, scope, and delivery tradeoffs as necessary. Review work products and progress to ensure success.
  • Facilitate meetings with external stakeholders and cross-functional teams. Resolve issues within and across teams. Mentor team and lower-level managers on job specific roles, communication, and collaboration.
  • Establish and assure adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance requirements. Develop compensation planning, career coaching, training, and administer company policies for the team.
  • Working with company senior management, drive cross-functional team improvement initiatives to optimize the business, and propose updates to team policies and SOPs. Support development of strategic directions within the team.
  • Oversee and drive development of new technology services including processes, procedures, AI tools, and required software updates.
  • Lead and oversee technical asset management activities for battery energy storage system (BESS) projects, including operational performance, availability, warranty review, degradation analysis, and coordination with OEMs, operators, and internal stakeholders.
  • Review of monthly and annual invoicing calculation support documentation against energy contracts to validate required calculations, metrics.

Required Qualifications & Education

  • 4-8 years management experience
  • Proven documentation, presentation, and communication skills with working teams and senior level management, CEOs, boards of directors
  • University Degree (or equivalent) with 8+ years domain experience
  • Experience managing utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects, including operations, performance monitoring, contract compliance, and technical issue resolution.
  • Masters/Graduate and 6+ years domain experience

Required Skills & Competencies

  • Proven ability to set direction and drive large cross functional team to success. Able to work as part of a larger team.
  • Proven success in personnel management, coaching & mentoring.
  • Proven ability to liaise with clients/internal management on significant issues that require high level management intervention in a professional manner.
  • Root cause analysis & process improvement. Big picture thinking that drives teams to meet organizational goals and provides cross-functional improvements.
  • Proven project and people management skills - organizing work, planning, monitoring and making tradeoffs to ensure quality deliveries.
  • Working knowledge of BESS operational performance drivers, including availability, round-trip efficiency, capacity degradation, augmentation planning, safety considerations, and root cause analysis for equipment or controls-related issues.

Required Software Knowledge

  • Expertise in MS Office MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe PDF toolsets

Preferred Experience

  • Second level management of a large team
  • Successful delivery of large, high impact, cross functional projects
  • Process improvement experience with Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt
  • Experience in the green energy or utilities domain
  • Direct experience with BESS project commissioning, commercial operations, performance engineering, warranty claims, augmentation strategy, or revenue-impacting availability and dispatch issues.
  • Experience with a U.S. based company

Preferred Skills & Competencies

  • Root cause analysis and problem-solving skills
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to distill information and present it in an understandable manner appropriate for the audience
  • Training creation, process improvement
  • Coaching / leadership skills


This position is fully remote and may be based anywhere in the United States.

The target hiring range for this position is $135,000-145,000. Actual compensation may vary based on experience, education, and other relevant factors. This range is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute a guarantee of any specific salary.

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