Head of Engineering

Acre has partnered with a leading PE-backed distributed energy platform that develops, owns, and operates large-scale onsite energy assets for some of North America's largest hyperscalers and industrial power users.

The company combines project development, innovative financing, and long-term asset ownership to deliver large-scale (30MW-300MW ) onsite solar, battery storage, cogeneration, and microgrid solutions. With a growing portfolio of complex distributed generation projects, they are looking for a Director / Head of Engineering to become the senior technical leader across their engineering function.

This remote US-based role reports into the C-suite and will own the engineering strategy, standards, execution, and team leadership. You would lead internal project engineers and external engineering partners while serving as the senior technical voice across development, EPC, interconnection, project finance, construction, operations, and customer-facing discussions.

You'd be responsible for

• Leading and developing a team of project engineers and engineering contractors across a growing distributed energy portfolio
• Setting engineering standards, processes, and design requirements for high-voltage, medium-voltage, and low-voltage distributed energy projects
• Overseeing design and modeling from concept through commercial operation, ensuring projects are bankable, constructable, maintainable, and optimized for cost and performance
• Reviewing and approving technical deliverables across solar, battery storage, and microgrid projects
• Partnering closely with Development, EPC, Asset Management, O&M, HSEQ, Finance, and executive leadership to ensure strong technical alignment across the full project lifecycle
• Supporting customer, utility, AHJ, regulatory, project finance, and investment committee discussions as the senior technical authority
• Driving continuous improvement across engineering workflows, tools, standards, root cause analysis, and long-term asset reliability

You will have

• B.S. in Engineering, ideally Electrical Engineering; M.S. or PE strongly preferred
• 10 years of progressive engineering experience across large-scale (30MW-100MW )distributed energy, power generation, utility-scale renewables, solar, storage, or microgrid projects
• Deep technical understanding of electrical infrastructure, interconnection, permitting, codes, and regulatory requirements across multiple markets / ISOs
• A track record delivering solar, BESS, microgrid, or distributed generation projects from design through construction and operation
• Strong communication skills with customers, utilities, EPCs, financiers, executives, and internal project teams
• Exposure to adjacent technologies such as EV charging, fuel cells, wind, cogeneration, long-duration energy storage, or broader microgrid systems is a plus

If you are a senior engineering leader who wants technical ownership across a high-growth onsite energy platform and are excited by the challenge of building scalable engineering systems for complex distributed energy projects, apply now!