Senior/Principal Energy Engineer

Senior/Principal Energy Engineer

Permanent Full Time

About Us

We are a team of enthusiastic and collaborative planners, designers, environmental consultants, engineers and health & safety professionals. Our client base includes public and private sectors. We have grown significantly over the last few years and now employ 200 individuals across the UK. Teamwork and a people-first culture are at the heart of everything we do and we wish to engage an enthusiastic professional to join our team.

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

Technical & Site Delivery

• Provide technical support on: Low-carbon heat (heat pumps, heat networks, electrification), Whole-building retrofit (fabric first, MEP optimisation), On-site renewables and storage, and Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) models
• Focus on Renewable & Generation projects including Wind, Solar, Battery and storage systems
• Understand Environmental compliance: ESOS (Energy Saving Opportunity Scheme)
• Lead with the Surveying of complex, energy intensive estates understanding the process of the most complex of systems
• Share your technical knowledge through mentoring and supporting our wider Energy Engineering Team
• QA/QC – Support with our Quality Checks and offer Technical support across a range of services
• Experience of supporting with Bid & Proposal writing
• Manage multidisciplinary projects, budgets, and delivery risk
• Oversee project lifecycle stages: strategy → feasibility → business case → procurement → construction → performance monitoring
• Proactively identify and develop new opportunities within the decarbonisation & generation markets
• Build relationships with existing and new clients, partners, estates, sustainability, and capital programme leaders
• Contribute to development of new service lines, sectors, and technology offers

Reporting To

Project / Technical Director

About You

Essential Skills & Experience

• Significant experience delivering energy or decarbonisation programmes across private, manufacturing, industrial & commercial, public sector & built environment
• Proven track record managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects
• Experience converting technical analysis into deliverable, investable programmes
• Strong understanding of: Complex Energy Focussed Project Delivery, Renewable & Generation Projects, Environmental Compliance, Regulation and Legislation, Project Risks including Health & Safety, Commercial Awareness & Budget Management, Data interpretation and asset planning capability
• Excellent client-facing communication and relationship skills
• Demonstrated involvement in business development, bids, or opportunity origination
• Tender & Proposal Writing

Desirable Skills & Experience

• ESOS Lead Assessor & Active in Surveying for Environmental Compliance
• Background in engineering, building services, energy management, or infrastructure
• Financial modelling / business case development experience
• Knowledge of heat networks, retrofit delivery at scale, or estate-wide decarbonisation
• Knowledge of Heat Pumps
• Delivered Projects across all RIBA stages 0-7
• Electrical knowledge

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or Equivalent Professional Experience
• Membership of a professional body such as CIBSE, EMA, IMech, MEI
• Chartered or undergoing chartership application
• Certified Energy Manager (CEM) or undergoing certified application

Additional Information

• The role may require travel (including occasional overnight stays) across the UK and overseas, depending on project requirements
• A full clean driving licence is necessary for this role
• Legal right to live and work in the UK is required
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Hybrid working patter