Senior Wind Energy Yield Analyst - Data Scientist

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.

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Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

Position location: Glasgow, UK / Brighton, UK / Bristol, UK

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.

About the role:
As a Senior Energy Wind Yield Analyst you will work with our global Renewables team dedicated to providing consultancy services for a variety of clients to include developers, lenders, investors and other project stakeholders. This is a client facing role that would suit a highly numerate individual with a diverse set of skills and the initiative to rise to a challenge. As part of your day to day duties you will be reviewing and undertaking the analysis of wind data to predict the energy output of potential wind farm projects as well as reviewing third party reports for due diligence assignments.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Management of projects and budgets
• Client interfacing and relationship management
• Due diligence with in-depth review of third party analysis reports
• Mentoring and feedback to junior team members
• Review of internal assessments and reports following detailed approval procedures
• Analysis and interpretation of measured wind data
• Modelling of wind flow using linear and non-linear wind flow models
• Calculation of energy yield assessment and technical losses
• Site compliance analysis according to IEC standards
• Written and verbal communication of technical detail to a non-technical audience
• Feasibility study report preparation
• Tender documents preparation, bids evaluation, contractual negotiations
• Awareness of the market and on-going innovation in technology and research

About you:

• Masters degree in engineering or relevant science subject
• Experience working in an engineering consultancy
• Experience in pre-construction and operational energy yield assessments for onshore and offshore wind projects
• Experience of reviewing other people’s work
• Knowledge of using Windographer, WindFarmer, WindPro and WASP
• Experience conducting site classification assessments including turbulence intensity and extreme winds
• Experience in layout optimisations
• Excellent communication and reporting skills
• Ability to work as part of a global team
• Ability to write clear and precise technical reports for a non-technical audience

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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