Graduate Utilities Consultant - Bristol, United Kingdom - Hydrock

Hydrock

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Bristol, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Graduate Utilities Consultant - Smart Energy & Sustainability:

For this role:

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You will need to be eligible to work in the UK indefinitely, without sponsorship._
- _ Applications will close 30/09/2023_

Key Information
We are currently advertising for a Graduate Utilities consultant in Bristol.

Role

This is an outstanding opportunity for you to join our highly influential Utilities Team within the Smart Energy and Sustainability division delivering sustainable projects for our communities, planet and society.

Working with local authorities, universities, master planners and developers, you will be helping to shape the future and the approach that organisations are taking to decarbonisation and a net-zero future.

Right now, we're looking for an enthusiastic Graduate Utilities Consultant to join us in our Manchester office.

We offer hybrid working as standard, including a couple of days a week in the office (or full time in the office if preferred), alongside team members for training and collaborative working.

You'll be part of our collaborative and growing team, based in offices across the UK, and will help with the development and delivery of a pipeline of exciting and complex projects.

The utilities infrastructure includes electricity, gas, water and telecommunications - the very lifeblood of buildings, without which there would be no power, running water, heating, lighting or internet.

Here are some of our best recent projects

Our Projects and Team

Working within a project team comprising project managers, architects and engineers, we have an important role to play in determining how and where utility services are incorporated into developments and how they will meet the challenges of increasing electrical demand, to suit net-zero strategies and electric vehicle charging, against a backdrop of a constrained national grid.

Our projects often involve investigating the feasibility of integrating microgrids, typically comprising renewable energy sources combined with battery storage, to meet a shortfall in available grid power, avoid significant grid reinforcement costs or to generate revenue.

Our team is a unique blend of engineers and consultants and this means we can deliver a wide range of project inputs for our clients from the earliest inception stages and onwards.

You will also be working closely with our wider Smart Energy and Sustainability division to ensure collaborative and joined up approaches on developments in terms of energy strategy, decarbonisation, renewable energy generation and battery storage.

What will your role involve?
The role is to undertake duties necessary for project execution within the Utilities Team, working collaboratively with team members across offices and other services within the company, you will deliver technical utilities consultancy through the following work stages:

Due diligence
Master planning
Pre/post Planning

Your work will primarily involve the following tasks:

Obtaining and reviewing asset records to assist in identifying development risks/constraints that show where utility infrastructure is located in and around a proposed development site
Producing drawings showing utility infrastructure
Supporting senior staff and the wider team in the procurement of quotes for utility providers for new utility connections, diversionary works and disconnection
Simultaneously managing numerous projects and chasing utilities for responses to ensure project milestones are met
Undertaking load calculations (Electricity, Gas, Clean/Foul Water for submission of preplanning enquiries
Reviewing 'heat maps' to find out high level information about where there is available capacity within the electricity networks.
Liaising with utility companies to determine a strategy for how to bring power, gas, water and telecommunications into a development
Looking at any constraints and risks that the utilities infrastructure may have on a development
Managing your own workload to meet project deadlines
Liaising with internal and external team members, developing relationships and people skills
Assisting in the production of detailed accurate technical reports, drawings and specifications

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

An interest in utilities, energy and renewables
A degree in a relevant engineering degree is desirable but not essential we have graduates from all backgrounds including physics and history in our team
Strong report writing skills
Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) we need to be able to digest technical knowledge and relay it to nontechnical specialists
A working knowledge of AutoCAD
Enjoy working in a fun, lively office with a great team spirit
Humility, selfmotivation and enthusiasm.
To buy into Hydrock's values and ethos

What's great about Hydrock 'in a nutshell'
We are a British-owned integrated multi-disciplinary engine