The Green Recruitment Company is happy to be working with a leading global engineering consultancy. They are looking to add to the team with a Technical Director, the successful candidate can be based out of London, Manchester or Newcastle. This role with take responsibility for leading the Electrical / Design Engineering team for battery storage projects as part of the new "new energies" division. The role will take ownership of the vertical, onboarding new clients, having P&L responsibility and the management of the engineering team.

Functions:

• Liaise with clients, build new and maintaining existing client relationships with Power clients.

• Concept and detailed design (layouts, SLDs, comms block diagrams, P&IDs, functional descriptions, operating philosophies )

• Feasibility Studies and capital estimates

• Bidding docs such as Tech Specs, Scope of works, tender returnable schedules, tender evaluation and recommendations

• Key equipment vendor selection

• Techno-economic modelling and optimization/sizing studies for microgrids/hybrid systems (i.e. solar, wind, BESS installed capacity based on site and network constraints,

• Coordinate the electrical infrastructure with other infrastructure in multidiscipline projects.

• Assist overall team members with projects and Quality reviews.

• Deliver innovative and robust technical solutions to projects, appropriately involving the power Service Line Leaders/Coordinators. Condition site inspections of energy storage assets during and at the completion of projects (including ITP/ITR creation and population during FAT/SAT).

Key Accountabilities:

• Ensure work produced is of a suitable quality and delivered to plan.

• Ensure the timely delivery of services within budget.

• Seek out Business Development and market opportunities, on a regular basis (nominally weekly), to build a continual pipeline of work for the team and the Region. Target 10% of hours to BD.

• Establish and maintain effective relationships with clients, Project Directors and Job Managers.

• Check in on and provide constructive and positive feedback to own project team members on a regular basis. Contribute to the safety of people within the project team within scope of engineering/PM responsibilities.

KPI's

Clients

• Contribute to the development of business for BESS opportunities for the Power Team, and the broader business

• Establish and maintain excellent client relationships.

• Be integral in the acquisition of new clients.

People

• Provide leadership to the team.

• Coach and advise project team members in project development activities.

• Mentor team members.

• Collaborate with key people across the business globally.

Performance

• Achieve personal utilization at or above 80% to 85% depending on BD tasks

• Provide technical leadership to the group/team and overview of the quality of own project outcomes’

• Apply high level technical knowledge in the delivery of projects for our client

• Maintain up-to-date information systems (e.g. proposals and opportunities pipeline, etc.) for owned opportunities

• For own opportunities, complete and update reports (including prospects list) relating to project development to ensure information is readily available to management.

• Identify and contribute to managing risks and opportunities within the team. Contribute to the Quality, HSE, IMS compliance standards and promote continuous improvement in our systems and processes

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent)

• Project Management (highly regarded)

• Chartered or actively working towards obtainment Minimum 5 years industry experience (consulting environment preferable)