Project Engineer (Data Centres & Industrials)

Octopus is building a new business line delivering low-cost, reliable, clean energy and faster speed-to-power for data centres and large industrials.

Responsibilities

• Own the programme and the development budget. Schedule from early concept to design freeze - siting, connection application, planning, consents, procurement, long-lead items - worked back from the customer's energisation date. Appoint and manage consultants, ICPs and study providers. Surface risk early and clearly communicate them to the stakeholders.
• Own the electrical concept through to sign-off. Single-line diagrams, general arrangements, switchgear and plant layouts, cable routes, metering and comms architecture. Direct and interrogate the studies (load flow, short-circuit, protection coordination, arc flash, earthing, power quality). Chair design reviews and stage gates, and take options to the Project Lead and customer with a recommendation.
• Lead the grid interface. DNO, TO and NESO - applications and offers, technical requirements, securities and milestones, contestable and non-contestable scope, ICP/IDNO coordination, MPAN registration.
• Budget ownership through completion. Credible capex inputs for the project model across plant, substation, civils and enabling works, with value engineering and optioneering. Then FAT/SAT witnessing, commissioning plans and sequences of operation, energisation and handover.
• Take on what you haven't done before. First-of-a-kind means no precedent, no standard design and no colleague who's done it. Get to a working understanding of an unfamiliar technology or scope fast, and deliver it.

Requirements

• Master’s degree , or equivalent, in electrical or power systems engineering. CEng welcome, not essential.
• 5+ years delivering energy or infrastructure projects, with a strong grounding in MV and HV systems.
• Real infrastructure experience - substations, networks, industrial plant, data centres, utilities, water or transport. We care that you've dealt with ground conditions, easements, consents, tie-ins to live assets and construction sequencing. This is not a grid-only role.
• You've personally held a programme and a budget on a development or pre-construction project.
• A GB/European grid connection taken from connection offer to grid code compliance and energisation, with working knowledge of the Grid Code, CUSC, SQSS, G99/G100, ENA engineering recommendations and BS 7671.
• Able to coordinate a multi-discipline design where you're not the expert in every discipline - and to spot a weak answer from a civil or mechanical engineer.
• Comfortable as the single point of accountability with an incomplete picture, holding external parties accountable without formal authority.
• Full UK driving licence and willing to travel to site.