Project Engineer

Project Engineer

Location: Stonehouse (hybrid working - 2 days in office)

Salary: £50,000-£60,000

Hours: Full-time, Monday to Friday

Benefits:

• Competitive salary, annual bonus and car allowance
• BUPA and Unum health cover
• Life Insurance
• 28 days of annual leave + Bank Holidays
• International travel and collaboration
• Internal progression, career development, and professional training
• Cycle to work scheme
• Hybrid working (Monday and Wednesday in office with flexibility)
• Dog friendly office
• Multiple company social events throughout the year

The Company:

Founded in 2005, our client specialises in renewable energy solutions that help clients join the global energy and ecological transition movement. They have grown to become an international energy producer and service provider.

The Role:

The Project Engineer will manage site design and technical engineering in all of our clients’ Wind and Solar projects. The Project Engineer will act as technical referent for the UK EPC Team. Their work will revolve around the cost, delay, quality and safety in all the steps of projects.

Responsibilities:

• Negotiating bonds through acceptance certificates and punch list creation/closing out (PAC, IAC, FAC)
• Assisting subcontractors with technical queries, reviewing test procedures and safe systems of work
• Providing design reviews, ensuring electrical compliance to produce maintainable sites and to avoid errors in build process
• Providing risk evaluation as required for HSE and Quality departments
• Advising on material selection, providing cost/risk analysis to support a long term, quality build approach
• Participating in subcontractor selection, PQQ, & audits to support the EPC team
• Assist and support the EPC team in the preparation of suitable plans/drawings/layouts; being the key contact for projects; working with COE or 3rd party engineers to support communications and delivery
• Improving ITPs to avoid missing key information and possible manufacturer issues
• Assessing component installation to avoid costly errors; providing a set standard across projects; ensuring standards are cascaded and communicated across projects
• Providing recommendations and ways of working to standardise installation quality throughout the UK portfolio to deliver a repetitive build for EPC
• Engage with grid connection network operators to discuss appropriate technical solutions for projects
• Providing technical advisory support in the construction and O&M handover phase of a project
• Support the EPC team with documentation transfer (contracts, technical administrative) to the EPC or O&M team during the project closing
• Actively contribute to REX; initiating future technical improvements further to lessons learnt
• Actively contribute to the EPC/ COE expert network in the group by ensuring that corporate technology approach and processes are used in the deliverables and working methodologies, whilst keeping a creative approach to maximize the assets output and competitiveness

Skills and Requirements:

• 5 years’ experience as Project manager or Technical Advisor in renewable energy
• Knowledge in project costing
• Engineer degree (in civil, mechanical or electrical engineering) or equivalent vocational qualifications in electrical engineering
• Knowledge of data analysis tools and GIS (valued)
• Data analysis and interpretation skills
• Experience advising clients on technical aspects of solar projects; inspection and testing experience
• Experience in renewables (photovoltaic – essential, battery, Wind Desirable)
• MS Office, AutoCAD and Electrical Engineering software aptitude
• Fluent in English (Essential) & French/Portuguese (valued)