Principal Consultant - Manchester, United Kingdom - Jacobs

Jacobs

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Manchester, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Your Impact:

About Jacobs**We (Jacobs) are a global multi-disciplinary professional advisory firm with a talent force of c.55,000 based in 40 countries.

Our Energy Consulting Services team is geared towards, providing a more integrated approach offering end-to-end service to support our clients in energy network, thermal generation, renewable generation, and storage solutions.

We are looking for an experienced Renewable Energy Engineering Professional (Solar, BESS and hybrid energy), who is passionate about Energy Transition.

You would join our UK Energy Consulting Services team, based at one of our Germany, UK or Ireland offices. These include (inter alia): London, Dublin, Berlin, Cork, Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, Belfast, Edinburgh.

Our fast-growing Energy Consulting Services team is part of our global network of c.1,200 Energy and Power professionals who work collaboratively to help our clients address the challenges and take forward the opportunities in the Energy Transition.

We provide strategic investment and development services and work with leading international energy companies (power generation, energy networks, oil and gas, transmission & distribution), large energy consumers (IT, Aviation, Transport, Industrial & Manufacturing), and government/ public sector.

Primary responsibilities

You would work collaboratively with the renewable energy and wider energy consulting services teams in the UK and globally to provide technical leadership on solar and hybrid energy projects.

You would work with Jacobs' energy, large energy user and public sector clients. We are currently looking to hire a Principal Consultant for Renewable Energy Engineering (Solar, BESS and hybrid energy).

Typical tasks would include:

Project scoping
Concept designs
Energy yield assessments
Feasibility studies
Technical specifications
Technical due diligence
Owner's engineering (pre and post financial close)
Project management (primarily of OE services)
Visiting sites across UK during the development, construction and operational phases as part of our service delivery
Manage entire consulting projects or significant workstreams within a larger project
Manage project resources and progress against the project plan
Support business development activities and proposal preparation to win work
Develop and nurture renewable and low carbon power generation skills within Jacobs
Build strong longlasting relationships (with clients and internally)
Actively engage in Jacobs' global communities of practice (COP) of relevance to renewable and low carbon power generation technologies and the wider Energy Transition
Extend skills and experience through working on a wide range of Energy Transition projects (e.g. hydrogen, powertox, CCUS and Net Zero hubs) as and when required

Energy Consulting Services is a specialist engineering, strategy and advisory practice operating within Jacobs' Energy & Power business, focused on managing our clients' risks and creating solutions that support change driven predominantly by net zero goals and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments.

These risks, posed by a changing climate, increasing technological innovation, changing regulatory landscape, new emerging global economies, major energy security issues and market disruptions, have created unprecedented challenges that demand systemic change across all sectors.

With our deep technical, commercial and strategic energy expertise across the whole energy system we develop solutions that address our clients' critical challenges around decarbonisation and the energy transition, including whole system efficiency, electrification of demand, digitalisation and opportunities in decentralised energy.

Here's What You'll Need:

Here is what you'll need**:

Degree and/or postgraduate qualification in engineering or a relevant field of study.
510 years' experience working on renewable energy/ similar projects in the energy or consulting sectors
A passion for the energy transition, and a growth/ problemsolver mindset
Strength in presenting recommendations and conclusions to clients and stakeholders
Good social and networking skills
Ability to prepare effective and well written reports and proposals
Client management experience
Capacity to work within teams to solve problems and achieve a high level of assurance on project deliverables
An understanding of what it takes to win and deliver work well

Our Culture
Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity.

We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed.

We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we'