# Renewables Project Engineer / Engineering Analyst (SPC Renewable Energy O&M)

**Company**: Southern Company Services
**Location**: Birmingham
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $74,893-$142,375
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

This role is responsible for managing major capital and O\&M projects for the SPC Renewable Fleet, providing technical expertise to improve reliability, driving fleet-wide standardization, and supporting acquisitions and development through risk assessment and O\&M contract negotiation.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading all phases of large capital and O\&M projects, from initiation to completion, including design, budgeting, scheduling, and execution.

- Developing business cases for new projects and assessing their impact, collaborating with SPC's Project Analysis & Market Assessment (PAMA) team as necessary.

- Conducting cost-benefit analyses to inform project prioritization.

- Developing and managing the five-year capital budget and plan.

- Supporting the SPC Budget Analyst with invoice reconciliation, accruals, variance explanations, and projections.

- Leading contract management and administration processes to support successful project delivery and maintain compliance.

- Driving service requests and team coordination for successful delivery of multidisciplinary projects.

- Facilitating clear and consistent communication and collaboration among Southern Company Services resources, contractors, vendors, Renewable O\&M Asset Managers, and site stakeholders.

- Performing technical analyses, feasibility studies, and risk assessments to guide strategic decisions.

- Developing clear technical reports and presentations for management and stakeholders.

- Delivering technical solutions that maximize facility availability, reliability, and performance.

- Leading root cause investigations of major events and equipment failures with cross-functional teams to ensure timely resolution.

- Monitoring industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation.

- Recommending and implementing improvements that enhance site performance and operational efficiency.

- Driving fleet-wide adoption of standardization, best practices, and strategic initiatives to ensure consistency and operational excellence.

- Developing and implementing maintenance strategies that optimize reliability, reduce downtime, and extend asset life.

- Contributing to project teams evaluating operational and financial risks for acquisitions, development projects, and repowers.

- Performing O\&M contract development of renewable facilities targeted for repower, acquisition, or development by SPC.

- Collaborating with internal stakeholders and external partners to ensure smooth integration of acquired assets, new developments, and repower projects.

This position requires a minimum of 3 years of experience in power plant operations and maintenance, project engineering, financial modeling, or asset management, preferably in renewables.

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- engineering
- financial modeling
- asset management
- renewable energy
- operations and maintenance
- contract management
- risk assessment
- business case development
- cost-benefit analysis
- capital budgeting
- invoice reconciliation
- accruals
- variance explanations
- projections
- technical reporting
- presentations
- facility availability
- reliability
- performance
- root cause investigation
- industry trends
- emerging technologies
- standardization
- best practices
- strategic initiatives
- maintenance strategies
- downtime
- asset life
- acquisitions
- development projects
- repowers
- O&M contract development
- site integration