Principal Renewable Energy Consultant

5 months ago


Glasgow, United Kingdom Wood PLC Full time

**The Role**

As a Principal Energy Storage Consultant, you will be a technical expert with consulting background in utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS). You will work on in-front and behind the meter utility-scale energy storage projects, for standalone and co-located systems. The projects you will lead advisory and owner’s engineering services, and you will be part of our front-end Clean Energy Solutions team.

You will provide specialist technical input to our teams and clients whilst also having an opportunity to manage a portfolio of due diligence and owner’s engineering assignments. Through a collaborative approach with multi-disciplinary teams, you will produce professional and detailed technical designs, reports or documents.

Within the project delivery team, you will be the main focal point for the client for BESS related aspects, ensuring any challenges that arise are dealt with directly and developing strong relationships to play a part in the successful financing of the projects, and continued growth for the Clean Energy business.

We have a library of training material for advisory services and a companywide energy transition and project management academies. As an expert in your field, you can join these communities and share your knowledge across the business supporting a future generation of experts as well as taking the opportunity to increase your own knowledge across other areas within Wood.

In addition, you will have the opportunity to mentor and support the development of other consultants within the team, ensuring the future growth of the team and industry. Wood offers a mentoring programme, through which one of our experienced leaders can also support your career development.

**Our Clients and Projects**

**It’s a future for all of us **. We aspire to shape a better tomorrow by unlocking solutions that address the biggest challenges facing our clients and our society.

We service a varied client base worldwide, including private developers (major and independent), investment banks, utilities & power generation companies, pension funds, technology innovation and research centres.

We provide value add services bespoke to the clients' requirements across advisory services, technical specialists, project management, owners engineering through all the phases of the project lifecycle.

Our specialisms across the clean energy sector include onshore and offshore wind, green hydrogen, solar, grid, energy storage and industrial decarbonisation. The work that we do for our clients is key to making the energy transition possible.

**What we can offer**
- **Meaningful and interesting projects **delivered to leaders of industry across renewables and clean energy sectors.
- **Flexible working arrangements **that balance client, team and individual needs offering hybrid and remote working where relevant.
- **Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion **- we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business.
- **Competitive salary **with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market.
- **Flexible benefits package **- inclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance; all of these and more that can be adapted to suit your own lifestyle.
- **Commitment to continued professional development; **development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests.
- **Access to Advisory Services training - **you can access a library of unique training material developed by experts within advisory services, take the opportunity to use these and add to them sharing your own expertise.
- **Energy Transition Academy **- join a community of experts sharing your knowledge and gaining more exposure to a variety of existing and emerging energy systems - delivered by experts in their field across all of Wood.
- **Global connections **- join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession.

**Typical responsibilities**
- Leading BESS project developments, providing engineering inputs from initial assessment, through to technical and economic feasibility, development phase, technical due diligence, construction monitoring, acceptance and operation monitoring.
- Preparing, reviewing and supporting draft, Employer’s Requirements, fire and explosion risk assessments, pre-fire plans, technical reports and proposals.
- Providing procurement and contract negotiation technical support, preparing tender documentation, and supporting the tender evaluation process.
- Site visits in the UK and abroad.
- Providing technical support to other teams and clients regarding BESS industry best practices and technology.
- Technical assessment of BESS, including all relevant system components.
- Working with our solar PV, wind, green hydrogen and other technical te



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