Technical Manager

Saft, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TotalEnergies, specializes in high-tech battery solutions for a large variety of industrial and electric applications, from design and development to production. For 100 years, Saft's sustainable batteries and systems have provided our customers with safe and mission critical batteries, for backup power, propulsion and renewables applications. Our innovative, safe and reliable technology delivers high performance on land, at sea, in the air and in space. Saft powers industry and smart cities, while providing critical backup capabilities in remote and harsh environments, from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert.

For over 20 years Saft has developed Energy Storage Solutions including the first battery in Alaska commissioned and connected back in 2003 and still in operation. Saft's ESS division was created a few year ago to strengthen the company's ability to serve the global energy storage market, support the transition to renewable energy. The division is growing fast with over 3 GWh of batteries in operation or commissioning worldwide, notable in the US, Europe countries, Australia and Taiwan.

Your missions

• Writes and contributes to project documentation, such as: the specification of sub-systems and the verification cross matrix.
• Performs electrical system design validation by following best practices.
• Develops high level design specifications, block diagrams, system interfaces, partition resources, compliance matrices, and uses technical and economic trade-offs to establish best system design.
• Approves projects' technical documentation and contributes to system product configuration.
• Evaluates BESS systems based on NFPA 855, UL9540, UL9540A, UL1973, UL1642, UL1741SA and/or other applicable codes and standards.
• Defines project specific requirements based on customer's specifications.
• Reviews and validates specifications, design, qualification and certification of BESS integration (Battery PCS/MVPS PMS) projects.
• System level development of power systems with an emphasis of specifying the power conversion systems and plant management/SCADA systems.
• Follows industry standards for integrating battery systems with power conversion and controls systems.
• Defines and implements action plans to technically answer to the customers requirements
• Provides support to the bid and proposal teams for technical questions that arise during the bid phase.
• Provide feedback concerning projects in execution or completed to the bids and proposals team to better inform the bidding process.
• Applies technical policies, best engineering practices, and lessons learned and shares them within the engineering team.
• Interfaces project manager, application engineers, services, maintenance, industrialization, marketing, quality, purchasing stakeholders for the product design
• Provides engineering support emphasizing safety and customer satisfaction
• Perform other duties as assigned

Desired profile

• Engineering Degree required

• Experience: 8 years Systems and Electrical Engineering Experience

• Specific Knowledge: Fluent in English. power systems, battery systems and controls knowledge

• Business Understanding: Electricity / Power Generation / Energy Industry

• Fluent in English (spoken and written)

• Familiarity with eletrcial and power systems engineering, with battery system or power generation projects and with pertinient codes and standards.

• Great decision making, Outstanding team work and collaboration with others.

Chez Saft, nous nous engageons dans la promotion de l’emploi, à compétences égales, pour les personnes en situation de handicap ; car nous sommes sûrs que la diversité, sous toutes ses formes, est une force indéniable pour notre attractivité, notre capacité d’innovation et notre compétitivité.