Director of Engineering

CenTrio is a fully integrated, innovative and sustainable energy services provider to a wide range of industries such as higher education & healthcare campuses, cities, and communities. It serves more with utility infrastructures serving more than 170 million square feet of space and operations in 10 cities across the United States and growing. In each community, the company operates highly efficient and innovative utility infrastructures that produce and distribute electricity, steam, hot water and/or chilled water to customer buildings and campuses.

Customers connected to these systems enjoy multiple benefits including reduced operating costs, lower emissions and unmatched reliability. CenTrio is a wholly owned subsidiary of a global Infrastructure. Investment Consortium with unmatched financial wherewithal and manages a portfolio of long-life, high quality infrastructure assets with high barriers to entry that generate stable and growing cash flows.

Job Summary

The Director of Engineering will be a key member of the Baton Rouge Management/Operations team and a technical lead for the Company, reporting directly to the General Manager.

The group operates under a flat structure, and the successful candidate will have regular visibility and direct access to various leadership.

We are looking for someone that has experience and ability to perform the duties of the Director of Engineering.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and evaluate projects to reduce energy costs and improve efficiency during construction, remodeling, or operational phases.
• Develop capital expenditure plans for CenTrio’s LSU Facility
• Develop Authorizations of Expenditure for both internal and external purposes.
• Manages/supports development of SOWs, budgets, design, bid, construction, and related functions.
• Coordinates and reviews work plan with LSU on State funded utility projects.
• Support/Administer future growth projects.
• Review and administer Key Performance Indicators for plant operations.
• Present Key Performance Indicators to CenTrio’s management and the customer.
• Manage a database of collected data and analyze impacts on performance and energy consumption.
• Prepare Monthly reports for both internal and external use.
• Develop an understanding of the facility’s operating systems and be able to provide guidance to the operations team related to their functionality.
• Manage the administration of utility systems records, including utility maps, utility consumption and operation records, gas system records and reporting.
• Perform Title V Air Permit reporting.
• Provide engineering support to the operations team.
• Help the operations team trouble shoot the various adverse system conditions and perform root cause analyses.
• Provide engineering design support for projects at CenTrio’s Louisiana facilities and participate in associated meetings.
• Work with the operations team on the optimization of the existing system
• Provide technical guidance for ordering necessary equipment/materials, prepare instructions for facility personnel to perform preventative maintenance, repairs, modifications and the replacement of equipment.
• Manage small capital projects at CenTrio’s Baton Rouge (& NOLA) facility.
• Provide operators with technical training about the facility and work with them to increase their technical knowledge on facilities operation.
• Review and provide input to the operations budget.
• Review all new technologies.

Working Style to Be Successful in This Role:

• Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills are a must
• Ability to prioritize work, support multiple projects, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure
• Ability to work in a dynamic, complex, fast-paced environment, to adapt quickly and to manage changing priorities.
• Maintain a calm manner in stressful and emergency situations.
• Work productively and effectively both in a team environment and individually with intermittent supervision

Professional Experience & Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, with major course work in mechanical or electrical engineering, construction management, construction technology or a related field.
• 5 years of experience, including 2 years of project management, administrative, and/or supervisor responsibility
• Knowledge or familiarity with Louisiana State University is preferred
• Professional Engineering license is considered an asset
• A preferred candidate would have some Utility or District Energy experience in at least one of the following areas: steam and hot water boilers, chiller systems heating, cooling and combined heat and power distribution system design, construction, inspection, analysis, and regulatory and safety compliance; storm and emergency response planning and implementation; utility system performance and reliability; and sustainable energy policy, regulations, markets, and technology

Technical Skills & Requirements:

• Methodically gather, assimilate, and analyze data and information in documents to identify gaps and inconsistencies, make appropriate inquiries, draw conclusions, and make appropriate recommendations;
• Give written and oral instructions in a precise and understandable manner;
• Write clearly and concisely, appropriately document sources, and organize work;
• Solve problems, devise techniques, and develop policy recommendations using existing precedent or guidelines;
• Ability to read and interpret engineering and construction documents
• Computer savvy (Outlook, MS Word, Excel, Project Management software, to include scheduling software, i.e. MS Project or similar, etc.)
• Knowledge of energy consumption, operating costs, building costs, common area maintenance costs, taxes, maintenance for building types that could be connected to a district system
• Ability to analyze energy data and make recommended solutions to solve issues
• Flexible, good at planning concurrent assignments and have overall excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage priorities even in unexpected circumstance
• Ability to oversee and coordinate multi-discipline engineering and construction contracts and projects
• Experience in HVAC design (utilization of ASHRAE requirement), facilities management issues, systems analysis, piping systems and controls engineering. Make recommendations relative to design

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms, talk or hear, and smell.
• The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, use tools, or controls, and climb or balance.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The employee is occasionally required to work in tight and confined space areas where temperature and humidity is higher than normal environments.
• The employee is occasionally required to work on roofs of tall building, top of cooling towers, and other elevated locations.

Why Join CenTrio?

CenTrio offers a dynamic and friendly work environment, dedicated to nurturing a top-notch team culture! Additionally, CenTrio offers an array of fabulous benefits and perks.

• Medical Benefits first day of hire
• Medical, dental, vision, Life & AD&D benefits
• Option of supplemental Life & AD&D benefits
• Company paid High Deductible Healthcare Benefit Plan
• 401k plan with % match
• Training Opportunities and career progression
• Competitive salaries that reflect the value of skills and experience
• Dynamic and friendly work environment in a rapidly expanding industry with a national presence
• Remote, Hybrid, and In Office schedules available dependent on job responsibilities
• 24-hour Employee Assistance Program/Hotline
• Corporate discounts (Travel, Entertainment, Home, Auto, Apparel, Health and Wellbeing, and other various retail options)