Senior Development & Construction Engineer - Hydrogen

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The Opportunity

Onshore Delivery Engineering within the Central Technical Organisation (CTO) is responsible for performing the engineering aspects of all Onshore Wind and Hydrogen projects; commencing at prospection, projects are to be technically specified and delivered through development, securing finance, and construction ensuring Engineering Excellence prior to handover into Asset Operations.

The role reports into the Principal Engineering Manager and line manages the Delivery Engineers within Onshore Delivery Engineering.

You will be the Senior Engineer on Hydrogen Projects and appoint Delivery Engineers on Wind Projects; responsible for establishing and co-ordinating multi-discipline project specific engineering team and work process required within assigned projects; supporting the successful delivery that complies with the project requirements, whilst ensuring appropriate engineering design and quality standards and specifications are maintained.

Location;  London, Durham, Edinburgh or Dublin

Closing Date;  11th March 2024

Pay, benefits and culture 

At EDF Renewables we’re dedicated to doing good things and we take pride in tackling the world’s biggest challenge – climate change.  We do this by embracing new ideas to create an innovative and open-minded culture, a culture where we trust the best versions of ourselves to make good things happen.

Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and a 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, or additional holiday.

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
 

• Strategic leadership and management of Delivery Engineers to ensure we deliver Wind and Hydrogen projects on time, within budget and to a high standard of quality.
• Provide expertise and focus on all matters related to the engineering specification and design activities on assigned Hydrogen projects, ensuring that deliverables are clearly identified and aligned within timelines and budgets.
• Manage the Engineering design activities during the front end engineering design (FEED) and detailed design stages supporting the Work Package Managers and procurement team to ensure delivery satisfies the requirements and timescales of the project.
• Ownership of the Project Design Management Plan to ensure a consistent approach to Engineering design such that safety, quality, programme and value are measured and balanced to deliver optimised project outcomes.
• Lead the planning, prioritisation and coordination of suitably qualified and experienced resource to meet Hydrogen projects requirements, including the management and supervision of any required internal or external third parties (consultants, sub-contractors, etc) for project deliverables.
• Responsible for ensuring technical and design risks, assumptions, issues and decisions are recorded and addressed appropriately, providing technical expertise and guidance to ensure risk level is ALARP through management of the project engineers.
• Responsible for fully documenting all design assessments, decisions and recommendatkions for Design Assurance Reviews at critical phases of the project (conceptual design pre-FID design, detailed design and delivered design as defined within the Design Management Process).
• Coordinate the development of technical specifications across various project engineering disciplines for inclusion within appropriate tender assessments across balance of plant work packages, while managing technical queries.
• Challenge the project engineers that operational learning and requirements are key considerations and lifetime costs are optimised.
• Coordinate technical and commercial due diligence, site visits, factory and site acceptance tests and support commissioning as required.
• Interface with the various Hydrogen Business Unit team, including EDF Hynamics as well as the wider CTO Central Engineering, Technical Governance and Electricity Connections.
• Providing weekly reports or escalations as required to the Project Manager and Principal Engineering Manager (Line Manager).

What do you need to be great at this role?
 

You’ll have experience in leading engineering teams in the development, design and construction of power generation projects, ideally within Hydrogen.

• You’ll have an understanding of developing and delivering Hydrogen solutions from feasibility to detailed engineering design.
• You’ll possess Project Engineering and Quality Assurance experience within the development and construction of process engineering projects, ideally within Hydrogen.
• You’ll have working knowledge of Engineering industry standards and design, manufacture, installation and testing codes of practice and regulations.
• You’ll have working knowledge of Construction Design and Management (CDM) and Control of Major Accident Hazard (COMAH) regulations, design, construction and installation Codes of Practice.
• You’ll have as minimum a relevant Engineering degree or equivalent.
• It would be advantageous for you to have experience and/or or a qualification in Project Management.
• You would possess a full clean driving license with the ability to work away from base location as and when required.

If you are a proactive and experienced individual with a passion for engineering excellence and a strong commitment to safety and quality, we invite you to apply for the position of Hydrogen Delivery Engineer within Onshore Delivery Engineering.

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.