Director, Engineering and Design

The Director of Engineering leads Highland's engineering and design team — drafting, project engineering, and utility interconnection — that supports a fast-moving portfolio of EV charging, battery energy storage (BESS), and edge compute sites from qualified sites through construction-ready.

This leader owns the engineering standards, the design package content and quality gates, and the throughput of the entire function, and partners with Project Development to deliver build-ready sites at portfolio scale and on an aggressive timeline.

Reporting to the Vice President, Development & Construction, the Director builds and leads a team of internal and external engineering resources.

The Director serves as Highland's senior technical authority on utility and Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) requirements, owns the engineering inputs to project schedule and budget, and builds the standards, playbooks, and tooling that make design faster, more repeatable, and more cost-effective.

This position is remote with an expectation of approximately 10-15% travel.

• Lead and scale Highland's project engineering function — drafting, design engineering, and utility interconnection — with end-to-end accountability for taking a large portfolio of EV charging, BESS, and edge compute sites from qualified site to permit-ready and construction-ready.
• Own the engineering function's throughput and quality: define the design package content and the internal approval gates for every stage — conceptual, 30%, Issued-for-Permit (IFP), and Issued for Construction (IFC) — and keep packages moving on an aggressive, portfolio-wide timeline.
• Build, develop, and retain a high-performing team of internal engineering resources
• Own Highland's external engineering-partner strategy — select, contract, scale, and manage the performance of engineering design and interconnection consultants so that internal and external capacity flex with portfolio volume.
• Set and enforce Highland's engineering, CAD, and design specifications and standards, and own the repositories of utility and AHJ requirements that make design compliant, consistent, and repeatable across the portfolio.
• Serve as Highland's senior technical authority on utility interconnection and AHJ permitting across EV charging, BESS, and edge compute; resolve the most complex technical and jurisdictional issues and represent Highland's engineering position externally.
• Own the engineering inputs to project schedule and budget — sequence and resource design, interconnection, and permitting milestones so each site is build-ready when construction needs it, and contribute to Highland's repeatable unit-cost installation model.