Principal Electrical Advisory Engineer 1

Job Description

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.

About the business unit

The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. Together with our clients, we’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.

Overview of the role

Our Transmission & Distribution Division is recruiting a Principal Electrical Advisory Engineer to be part of an integral team delivering large projects across the world. Working alongside our main project team you will have the opportunity to join our specialist group involved in advisory work for the energy sector specialising in electrical transmission and distribution.

Our clients are located in the UK and internationally and you will be a hands-on consultant dealing directly with clients at all levels. The role offers the opportunity to work on the examination and assessment of technical, economic, and commercial aspects of various types of energy networks projects.

Work may involve the following:

• Due diligence of electrical infrastructure including but not limited to electricity transmission and distribution companies, onshore and offshore grid connections
• Identification of project risks and development of mitigating measures (technical, commercial, financial)
• Informing financial models of electrical infrastructure assets including technical assumptions
• Review and appraisal of capital and operational expenditure plans for electrical infrastructure
• Review and appraisal of operation and maintenance plans and associated contracts
• Loss reduction studies
• Advice to support reorganisation and/or acquisition of electrical infrastructure businesses
• Post financial close construction and operation monitoring services
• Preparation of technical and advisory reports.
• In addition, the role would involve managing project work and project teams, retaining and developing relationships with clients, and potentially developing new business opportunities.

This role can be based in the UK ( Brighton,UK /Croydon, UK/ Cardiff,UK/ Glasgow,UK/ Newcastle, UK/ Altrincham,UK/ Brighton,UK) or in Europe (Belgrade, Madrid or Genova Office).

Candidate Specification

• Degree qualified Electrical Engineer, preferably with Chartership status
• Excellent report writing and communication skills
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Sharp analytical skills and the ability to present quantitative knowledge to non-experts
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and produce quick turnover on an often reactive basis
• Preparedness to travel worldwide on short business assignments
• Excellent working ability of MS Office, knowledge in other economic/statistical packages welcome.
• Desired competencies / skills:
• Ability to work in and lead multi-disciplinary teams
• Previous experience in electrical infrastructure projects as Owner’s Engineer, Lender’s Engineer or similar role
• Appreciation of transaction finance mechanisms
• Appreciation of project risk and mitigation
• Appreciation of commercial sphere of project work including contract terms
• Project management experience
• Proposal experience.

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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:

• Employee is entitled to meal allowance in amount of RSD 500 per month.
• Annual leave allowance of RSD 500 per month.
• Reimbursement of the monthly costs of public transport to work in line with the actual cost and price of the public transport.
• Employee is entitled to annual leave of 22 working days. Employee must make every effort to use their full entitlement during the year in which it has been earned. A maximum of 10 working days leave may be carried over into the next calendar year.
• Employee is entitled to additional annual leave of 3 days after 5 full years from the day of employment, which amounts to a total of 25 days of annual leave.
• Employer will provide life insurance cover up to 1-time annual gross salary.
• Employer will provide accident insurance cover (For the cases of partial or full disability due to accident) up to 2 times annual basic salary.
• Employees are entailed to participate in the GIS which is a performance base of performing sharing scheme Group incentive scheme 2022 (sharepoint.com)
• You have the possibility of agile working and cross border remote working.
• You have the opportunity to participate to the employee referral scheme Global referral schemes (sharepoint.com) which currently pays Euro 800 / successful hire.
• Employee Assistance Program EAP Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Services (sharepoint.com)
• Reimbursement for one professional membership per year or your annual charter ship
• Health and wellbeing: FIT PASS (Access hundreds of the best gyms, fitness studios,
• swimming pools and sports centres throughout Serbia!)
• You have free access to the Group wellbeing and mental health (sharepoint.com) initiatives.
• You have free access to MM’s e-learning courses, technical learning on EUNA (Europe and UK) Campus, and other learning and development opportunities such as lunchtime learnings, online courses and workshops.

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