Engineer (Smartgrids and Studies) in Glasgow

As an Arcadian, you help deliver world leading sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can continue to solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Operating within our Renewables team as an Engineer, you will undertake design and studies including technical specifications for designs and contractual documentation for our clients. Most of our engagements are with renewable energy developers and we also provide services to the wider energy industry including energy storage and utility clients, in the UK and internationally. The position includes a level of responsibility and accountability with an opportunity to develop your managerial as well as technical knowledge and skills, and to progress within a successful and growing specialist team.

As a Renewables Engineer, you will be part of renewable energy project teams and will be expected to continuously develop your technical skills through on-the-job, formal training and through your own research. The position can be based anywhere in the UK. You will be in control of your own diary and benefit from flexible working arrangements.

Role accountabilities:

• Create design deliverables for packages of work, including technical specifications for designs and contractual documentation.
• Undertake design analysis, and where necessary, review the work of others to ensure quality of the deliverables.
• Perform detailed design or consultancy projects across the life cycle of a renewable energy project from concept stage, through design, construction, operational maintenance and end of life works.
• Resolve technical problems, provide solutions, advise clients and stakeholders.
• Manage deliverables to timescales and budgets.
• Develop personal and company profiles within the client base and wider industry.
• Support project delivery teams, from a technical perspective.
• Deliver safe and constructible designs through CDM awareness.
• Lead design and deliverable innovations, which deliver value for company and clients alike.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience in at least one of the following areas:

• Offshore renewables (e.g. offshore wind).
• Onshore renewables (e.g. onshore wind or solar PV).
• Energy storage (e.g. BESS).
• Submarine cable systems.
• Power systems analysis and modelling (steady-state/dynamic) using industry standard software such as DIgSILENT PowerFactory, PSS®E, PSCAD, ETAP, CYMCap.
• UK grid compliance (e.g. G5/5, P28).
• UK grid connection process.

Continue your career journey as an Arcadian. We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You do meaningful work, and no matter where your next role in Arcadis takes you, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark; on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.