Associate Director - Civil Engineer - Renewables

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Are you ready to take on the role of Associate Director - Civil Engineer – Renewable Energy in our rapidly expanding renewable energy team. You will be responsible for undertaking a technical role on projects within our energy business; typically, our projects are associated with the generation, storage, transmission and distribution of energy both in the UK and Ireland and countries throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Projects include all stages of design from feasibility to detailed design and site construction supervision both in the UK and internationally. Our clients are a mix between large energy utility generators to private developers.

Here’s what you’ll do

As our new Associate Director - Civil Engineer – Renewable Energy, you will be a senior member of the team and responsible for developing and leading project delivery and developing and maintaining client relationships. A particular focus will be on leading and growing the team’s technical engineering capabilities.

You will review and generate technical and contractual information from both internal and external sources.

Other aspects of the role include

Successful candidates will be deployed to work on different projects and will include leading engineering teams for the following types of technologies.

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Here’s what we’re looking for

This role has a strong technical focus and requires candidates to have a background in structural engineering and preferably experience in the energy sector, specifically in renewable energy systems, and demonstrate a high degree of technical competency.

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!.

Responsibilities

Liaise with clients, manage project work on a day-to-day basis and ensure that the work is delivered within the agreed timescale and budgets.; Coordinate multi-disciplinary design of renewable energy infrastructure.; Respond to technical queries raised by project teams.; Act as Lead Verifier on projects including technical feasibility studies and design reports in the capacity of lead structural engineering.; Direct members of staff and mentor graduate engineers.; On and offshore wind; Solar PV; Hydroelectric – run of river and pumped storage; Grid connection works – cable route and substation civil; Hydrogen production and storage; Battery energy storage systems (BESS)

Requirements

BEng (Hons) degree in Civil or Structural Engineering; Chartered status or actively working towards chartership; Contractor Design Approval Engineer (CDAE) certification is advantageous