Senior Electrical Engineer

Energise Your Career, Accelerate a Net-Zero Future #RenewablesJobs

The Opportunity

Join our dynamic Electrical team within the Engineering Centre Team, where you'll play a key role in driving engineering excellence at EDF Renewables. As we rapidly grow and diversify across cutting-edge renewable technologies, you'll be at the forefront, delivering top-tier electrical engineering solutions that power a greener future.

As Senior Electrical Engineer you will play a key role in the development, delivery and operation of Irish Renewable energy projects. Providing Electrical Engineering support to all technologies throughout the complete lifecycle from feasibility, design, construction and operation.

This is your opportunity to make a real impact—providing expert engineering services across the Engineering team, CTO, and wider business. You’ll thrive in a fast-moving, competitive landscape, ensuring innovation, quality, and industry-leading standards remain at the heart of everything we do. If you're passionate about engineering the future of energy, we’d love to have you on board!

Pay, benefits and culture 

If you’re looking to join a company where you can work hard, have fun, and help to create a Net Zero future – then you’re in the right place!’

Our passion for embracing new ideas and being open-minded to change helps us continue to grow successfully.

We’re committed to helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment. 

Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that’s an electric vehicle, private healthcare, additional holiday or one or more of our other benefits.

We’ll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that’s on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.  

We’re committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone’s Welcome inclusion programme.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need. 

What you’ll be doing

Lead by example, championing Zero Harm and maintaining the highest safety standards. Drive engineering excellence, ensuring compliance with statutory and EDF Renewables policies.

Your Impact:

• Deliver expert electrical engineering solutions, embedding quality and operational excellence.

• Mentor and develop a high-performing, collaborative team.

• Set and uphold engineering standards, ensuring compliance and innovation.

• Provide technical leadership, supporting critical business needs and high-voltage projects.

• Investigate and integrate emerging technologies to optimize HV asset management.

• Represent EDF Renewables in industry events and technical discussions.

What do you need to be great at this role?
 

You’ll be a proven leader successful in delivering projects / programmes, establishing / managing relationships, securing and maintaining a safe environment, managing priorities, and inspiring and influencing behaviours and actions.

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in Electrical Engineering.

• Minimum of an engineering degree in a relevant engineering discipline.

• Chartered membership of an appropriate body is desirable.

• NEBOSH or IOSH (or equivalent) is highly desirable.

• Accreditation under WTSR and HVSR is desirable.

• Specialist in at least one engineering discipline within the renewable energy sector.

• Strong experience of managing risks and challenges in a renewables environment.

• Experience of coaching / mentoring less experienced team members.

• Strong commitment to safety, health, environment and quality.

• Highly proficient in key areas of engineering in the renewables environment.

• Excellent at building successful relationships with external partners, peers, stakeholders and reporting line.

• Computer literate with a good command of Microsoft Office package (MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point, etc.).

• Flexible to travel around the UK and overseas as the role requires.

• Excellent (English), oral and written, communication skills.

• Full Irish driving licence.

Location: Dublin, hybrid or remote - You can be based anywhere within Ireland or Northern Ireland for this opportunity with the flexibility of travelling to our sites and Dublin office

Competitive salary to include a business needs car, 10% bonus, pension and flexible benefits

Closing date for applications: 14th February 2025

Why EDF Renewables?

At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we’re committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.

It’s a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland’s challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland’s most diverse generator of renewable energy.

To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we’re working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.

If you’re passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us. 

Join us, and let’s do good together.