Location
Lanarkshire-Glasgow, United Kingdom
Hours
Full Time
Salary
Negotiable
About the Role
Wood’s Renewables team is recruiting a Renewable Energy Consultant specialising in Solar PV and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) to join our expanding Renewables Advisory team. Working within our Sustainable Infrastructure business, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering advisory, engineering, and technical solutions across solar, onshore and offshore wind, energy storage, wave, tidal, and hydro projects. Our projects range from grid power systems for remote locations with capacities of a few hundred kilowatts to some of the world’s largest renewable energy developments with capacities of thousands of megawatts.
This role focuses on providing advisory services related to due diligence assignments, particularly for Solar PV, BESS, and Hybrid schemes. You will support solar and BESS project developments by providing engineering inputs from initial assessment through technical and economic feasibility, development phase due diligence, construction monitoring, acceptance, and operation monitoring primarily at the megawatt scale.
Key responsibilities include preparing technical documents such as specifications, reports, proposals, calculations, and contracts; conducting site visits in the UK and abroad; providing technical support to clients; performing technical assessments of Solar PV and BESS products and devices; supporting a wider multi-disciplined engineering team; acting as a client interface; and managing projects or tasks with responsibility for technical, programme, and budget performance.
Joining Wood means becoming part of a dynamic business leading engineering solutions for a net-zero future, with opportunities to work across a wide range of projects to expand your expertise and experience.
Experience
- Understanding of key technical and commercial aspects of PV and BESS projects
- Working knowledge of solar energy and BESS technology and products
- Ability to produce high-quality technical reports to predefined deadlines
- Experience with industry-standard modelling software for Solar PV, BESS, and hybrid systems
- Knowledge of ancillary services functioning in the UK and technical requirements for their provision (international market knowledge is a plus)
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Previous consultancy and/or project development experience is desirable
- Competence in solar PV and BESS contracts, warranties, and performance guarantees is advantageous
- Familiarity with solar PV and BESS technical inputs to financial models
- Experience in development, construction, commissioning, or operation of BESS and solar energy projects is favourable
- Experience with BESS test inspection, witnessing, and verification (FAT, SAT, G99) is a plus
- Experience with BESS modelling software (e.g. HOMER Pro, HOMER Grid, Fractal Model X) and Solar PV yield modelling software (e.g. PVsyst) is desirable
- Foreign language skills and valid UK driving licence are advantageous
About you
- Flexible and proactive approach to project delivery
- Reliable with good organisational and project management skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-disciplined team
- Confident communicator
Qualifications
- Educated to degree level in engineering or a science-based subject (essential)
- Education in electrical engineering is favourably considered
