Grid Storage Manager

We're Hiring: Grid Storage Manager

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a globally focused organization committed to strengthening grid resilience, renewable-energy integration, power-system flexibility, and large-scale energy-storage capabilities across diverse markets.

Our teams collaborate across Energy Storage, Power Systems, Electrical Engineering, Grid Operations, Renewable Energy, Controls, Software, Project Development, Commercial, Regulatory, Safety, and Supply Chain functions to develop and operate reliable grid-scale storage solutions.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Grid Storage Manager to lead the strategy, development, integration, deployment, optimization, and lifecycle management of grid-scale energy-storage systems.

The ideal candidate will combine strong knowledge of battery energy-storage systems and power grids with project leadership, system integration, grid services, performance optimization, commercial analysis, regulatory coordination, and operational management.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement grid-storage strategies aligned with grid requirements, energy-market opportunities, renewable integration, and organizational objectives.
• Lead grid-scale battery-storage programs from feasibility and development through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, operations, and lifecycle management.
• Evaluate battery technologies, power-conversion systems, energy-management systems, and grid-integration architectures.
• Assess storage applications including frequency regulation, capacity support, energy arbitrage, peak shaving, renewable firming, load shifting, voltage support, and grid resilience.
• Develop technical requirements for utility-scale and distributed grid-storage projects.
• Define energy capacity, power rating, duration, cycling requirements, response time, efficiency, availability, and degradation requirements.
• Perform or oversee storage sizing studies based on load profiles, renewable generation, grid constraints, market opportunities, and operating requirements.
• Develop energy and power dispatch models for different grid and market scenarios.
• Analyze battery degradation, state of health, usable capacity, depth of discharge, cycling frequency, and expected asset life.
• Establish performance assumptions for technical and financial models.
• Lead feasibility studies, technical due diligence, business cases, and project investment assessments.
• Evaluate project economics including capital expenditure, operating costs, market revenues, energy savings, capacity value, ancillary-service revenue, augmentation, and replacement costs.
• Coordinate grid studies covering load flow, short-circuit, stability, protection, power quality, harmonics, and dynamic performance.
• Support interconnection applications, grid-connection studies, utility reviews, and approval processes.
• Coordinate with transmission and distribution operators, utilities, regulators, market operators, and grid stakeholders.
• Develop requirements for grid-forming and grid-following inverter capabilities where applicable.
• Coordinate integration of battery systems with inverters, transformers, switchgear, protection systems, SCADA, EMS, BMS, and communications infrastructure.
• Define control architectures and operating strategies for grid-connected storage assets.
• Establish requirements for automatic dispatch, frequency response, voltage support, reactive-power control, and other grid services.
• Coordinate energy-management-system functionality and automated dispatch strategies.
• Establish operating limits and control parameters to balance performance, revenue, battery degradation, and safety.
• Monitor real-time system performance, availability, power output, energy capacity, efficiency, alarms, and operating conditions.
• Develop dashboards and analytics for grid-storage performance.
• Analyze operating data to identify degradation, performance losses, abnormal conditions, and optimization opportunities.
• Monitor state of charge, state of health, cell balance, temperature, voltage, current, and other critical battery indicators.
• Lead root-cause investigations into battery, inverter, transformer, protection, control, communication, and grid-related failures.
• Coordinate corrective and preventive actions and verify their effectiveness.
• Establish preventive and predictive maintenance strategies for grid-storage assets.
• Develop asset-management plans covering inspections, maintenance, component replacement, battery augmentation, refurbishment, and end-of-life activities.
• Develop battery augmentation strategies to maintain required capacity and performance throughout the asset lifecycle.
• Establish system performance guarantees and degradation assumptions for long-term operations.
• Manage battery safety programs covering thermal runaway prevention, detection, isolation, fire protection, emergency shutdown, ventilation, and emergency response.
• Conduct technical and operational risk assessments for grid-storage projects.
• Establish emergency-response procedures for battery incidents, electrical faults, equipment failures, grid disturbances, and severe operating events.
• Ensure systems comply with applicable electrical, grid, fire, environmental, safety, cybersecurity, and regulatory requirements.
• Manage battery manufacturers, inverter suppliers, system integrators, EPC contractors, engineering consultants, and long-term service providers.
• Define technical specifications, warranties, availability guarantees, efficiency guarantees, degradation guarantees, service levels, and acceptance criteria.
• Evaluate suppliers based on technology maturity, bankability, quality, capacity, delivery capability, warranties, lifecycle support, and financial strength.
• Support technical procurement evaluations, tender reviews, contract negotiations, and supplier selection.
• Coordinate factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, commissioning, and performance validation.
• Establish acceptance tests covering capacity, power, efficiency, response time, controls, communications, protection, availability, and grid-service performance.
• Manage project schedules, budgets, technical risks, resources, dependencies, and delivery milestones.

Key Performance Indicators

• Grid-storage system availability
• System uptime
• Usable energy capacity
• Rated power availability
• Round-trip efficiency
• Charge efficiency
• Discharge efficiency
• Battery state-of-health performance
• Capacity retention
• Battery degradation rate
• State-of-charge accuracy
• Cell voltage balance
• Thermal performance
• Dispatch accuracy
• Frequency-response performance
• Response time
• Voltage-support performance
• Reactive-power performance
• Grid-service availability
• Ancillary-service performance
• Energy-arbitrage performance
• Renewable-energy integration
• Renewable curtailment reduction
• Peak-demand reduction
• Grid constraint mitigation
• Revenue or savings contribution
• Revenue per unit of storage capacity
• Project delivery performance
• Project budget adherence
• Capital cost per unit of capacity
• Operating cost per unit of energy
• Lifecycle cost
• Maintenance cost
• Equipment failure rate
• Mean time between failures
• Mean time to repair
• Battery safety performance
• Thermal-event frequency
• Preventive-maintenance completion
• Corrective-action closure rate
• Warranty performance
• Supplier SLA compliance
• Factory acceptance test performance
• Site acceptance test performance
• Grid-connection compliance
• Cybersecurity compliance
• Environmental and regulatory compliance
• Battery augmentation effectiveness
• Continuous-improvement savings

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate should have strong experience in grid-scale energy storage, battery energy-storage systems, power systems, electrical engineering, renewable energy, utility infrastructure, energy markets, or grid operations, preferably within utility-scale or commercial energy-storage environments.

The candidate should demonstrate:

• Strong understanding of grid-scale battery energy-storage systems.
• Proven experience managing energy-storage projects, assets, or technology programs.
• Strong knowledge of lithium-ion batteries, battery-management systems, power-conversion systems, and energy-management systems.
• Understanding of alternative and long-duration energy-storage technologies.
• Experience with grid integration, interconnection studies, power-system analysis, and utility requirements.
• Strong knowledge of frequency regulation, voltage support, reactive power, capacity services, energy arbitrage, and renewable-energy integration.
• Experience with inverter-based resources and grid-forming or grid-following technologies.
• Understanding of SCADA, EMS, BMS, protection systems, communications, and control architectures.
• Strong knowledge of battery degradation, state of health, capacity retention, cycling, and lifecycle management.
• Experience with storage sizing, dispatch optimization, performance modeling, and degradation modeling.
• Experience coordinating commissioning, acceptance testing, performance validation, and grid-connection activities.
• Strong understanding of battery safety, thermal runaway prevention, fire protection, emergency response, and operational risk management.