Principal Construction Engineer

Our team at Bloom Energy embraces the unprecedented opportunity to change the way companies utilize energy. Our technology empowers businesses and communities to responsibly take charge of their energy. Our energy platform has three key value propositions: resiliency, sustainability, and predictability. We provide infrastructure that is flexible for the evolving net zero ecosystem. We have deployed more than 30,000 fuel cell modules since our first commercial shipments in 2009, sending energy platforms to data centers, hospitals, manufacturing facilities, biotechnology facilities, major retail stores, financial institutions, telecom facilities, utilities, and other critical infrastructure customers around the world.

Our mission is to make clean, reliable energy affordable globally. We never stop striving to improve our technology, to expand and improve our company performance, and to develop and support the many talented employees that serve our mission!

We are looking for a Principal Construction Engineer to join our team in one of today’s most exciting technologies. This role will report to the Senior Manager, Electrical Utilities and Construction Engineering and will be based in San Jose, CA. This is a fully on-site, in office role.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting quota attainment in the territory by providing technical support and expertise direct to customers in support of sales objectives.
• Responsible for qualifying installation sites and custom solutions. Produce project specific drawings and documents as needed.
• Technically support the Sales team with Bid and Proposal writing.
• Interface directly with customers and relevant utility to determine technical requirements for fuel cell installation at the customer site.
• Define scope of work during pre-sales process leveraging internal and external resources with conceptual designs to implement electrical, mechanical & civil infrastructure connections between Bloom Energy system, customer site, and utility.
• Educate customers, local authorities, and utilities on basic operation of the fuel cell systems.
• Work with customers, Sales, Field Service, Technical Support and Engineering to create escalation and resolution processes for problems related to customer installations.
• Able to travel through sales territory.

Skills and Experience:

• 7-10 years of related experience.
• Engineering degree in relevant discipline.
• Customer interaction skillsets a plus.
• Construction and/or Facility maintenance experience a plus.
• Extremely professional in terms of appearance, phone manner, and group presentation skills.
• Proactive and persistent with well-developed analytical skills. Exceptional verbal and written communication skills that include a minimum of the following:
• Ability to communicate technical concepts in a clear, concise manner for a non-technical audience.
• Ability to interact with facilities personnel.
• Experience in using Microsoft Office products.

Bloom Energy is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We are committed to compliance with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. All qualified applicants, will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability. Bloom Energy makes reasonable accommodations, consistent with applicable laws, for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability, who can perform the essential job functions, unless undue hardship would result.

Bloom Energy is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The total compensation for this position includes standard company benefits and is based on various factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience.

Salary Ranges:

$146,800.00 – $211,200.00