Senior/Principal Energy Engineer
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