Battery Energy Storage Engineer

Mott MacDonald

Position location: Italy
Recruiter contact: Martin Keown & Abhijeet Barpanda 

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

Our Energy Unit is recruiting a Senior Electrical Engineer – Energy Storage to work within our Energy Advisory business line. The successful candidate will support clients with developing their energy/battery storage (grid scale) projects across the world. The role will be based within Mott MacDonald’s Energy unit and will involve working with specialists in Mott MacDonald’s renewables, transport and built environment practices. 
The role will be based in the UK or in Europe (Belgrade, Sofia, Madrid)
Main duties: 

• Electrical design (preparation of concept design reports and drawings for MV/HV systems). 
• Specification of battery storage solutions 
• Managing the delivery of projects, ensuring adherence to our quality assurance system. 
• Acting as lead interface with clients. 
• Supervision and mentoring of junior staff. 
• Involvement in proposals and supporting submissions for new opportunities. 
• Preparation of reports and deliverables, including presentations to senior client contacts on the outcomes of the work.

The successful applicant will have the following attributes: 

• Degree-qualified in Electrical Engineering, with extensive post graduate experience in the industry. 
• Strong demonstrable working knowledge of energy storage systems and related specialism such as transmission and distribution networks network design and renewable network design. 
• Excellent report writing and communication skills (English). 
• Sharp analytical skills and the ability to present quantitative knowledge to non-experts. 
• Self-motivated and diligent, with ability to meet tight deadlines on simultaneous assignments. 
• Attentive to detail, a dynamic listener, with a strong aptitude for the wider picture. 
• Prepared to travel, sometimes at short notice, as required by projects and new business opportunities. 
• Desired competencies / skills: 
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams. 
• Previous experience in the “integrated energy systems” sector such as green hydrogen and hybrid renewables with co-located BESS assets. 
• Previous experience in electrical infrastructure projects as Owner’s Engineer, Lender’s Engineer or similar role. 
• Project management and proposals experience. 
• Appreciation of project risks and mitigation strategies. 
• Appreciation of commercial sphere of project work including contract terms. 

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. 

Equality, diversity, and inclusion 

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working 

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Life insurance 
• An annual professional institution subscription   
• Continuous development opportunities – because we want you to thrive  
• Agile/flexible working – because life isn’t 9-5  
• Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies – for parents and care givers  
• Annual bonus scheme  
• Flexible benefits that suit you, including ability to buy/sell annual leave entitlement, cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans 
• Wellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions and access to learning and support resources 
• Access to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities 
• The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes

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