(Senior/Principal)Battery Energy Storage Engineer

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

Mott MacDonald

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. 

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

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:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

 Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

 Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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