Battery Storage Consultant - Stockport, United Kingdom - Fichtner

Description

Based from Stockport Office

Reporting to a Team Leader

Permanent, full-time employment

Who are we?:

Fichtner Consulting Engineers Ltd is a leading technical consultancy with a reputation built on over 30 years of successful projects in the UK and Ireland.

Our purpose is to facilitate the investment and delivery of energy infrastructure projects that positively influence the energy transition. Our success comes from the unique combination of skills and experience that continuously evolves.

Our Engineers and Consultants support some of the most innovative energy projects across the UK and Ireland; providing design, intellectual, and engineering services to developers, investors, and owner-operators.

We have over 150 employees that we are proud to have represent us, operating from our offices in Manchester, Belfast, Dublin, and our most recent office launch in Glasgow.

As the business grows from strength to strength, we are now looking to further extend our team by recruiting an experienced Battery Storage Consultant to work as part of our electrical and Energy Storage teams with the opportunity to contribute to some of the most innovative projects across the UK and Ireland.

What are we looking for?:


You will need to have:

• A good degree in Electrical Engineering
• Significant technical knowledge, post qualification, in the following battery energy storage system (BESS) subsystems:
• battery module and rack systems
• BESS switchgear

- medium and high voltage switchgear
- power conversion systems
- battery unit controllers

• BESS cooling systems

- containerised solutions, and ideally outdoor mounted cabinet-based solutions
- fire detection and suppression systems; and
- industrial electrical infrastructure

• Experience with both DNO and transmission level grid connections
• Experience with the commissioning, performance testing, and takeover of a BESS system
• Dealing effectively and professionally with external and internal clients, attending meetings etc
• Prior experience with the use of electrical engineering software
• The undertaking of feasibility and design reviews
• Excellent understanding of health, safety, and welfare within engineering
• Witnessing of both site and factory acceptance testing
• Ability to assess manufactured or fabricated items for faults; and
• The provision of sitebased construction monitoring
• Able to work as part of a wider engineering team and to operate autonomously as required

What you can expect from us:

• The opportunity to be directly involved in large scale energy generation and storage projects for the UK & Ireland
• Opportunity to become a shareholder
• Significant training, development, and career growth opportunities
• Company electrical vehicle car leasing scheme
• Private medical & life assurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Team and company social events
• Milestone scheme celebrating years spent as part of the Fichtner team

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• Fichtner Consulting Engineers is committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity amongst our workforce. Our aim is that our workforce will be truly representative of all sections of society and that each employee feels respected and able to give of their best every day._