Electrical Project Owner – Data Centers & 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. We're looking for a Project Electrical Engineer to be the electrical owner on first-of-a-kind power projects - private wire, behind-the-meter generation and storage, MV and HV grid connections. This is a technical role with a unique expanded scope to broader infrastructure project management.

Early on you are the project manager: you hold the programme, the development budget and the external parties, from concept design through connection offer to design freeze and financial close. From there you stay on as the electrical owner through construction, commissioning and energisation, with a delivery team around you.

What you'll do

• 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.
• 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.
• Budget ownership through completion.
• Take on what you haven't done before.

What you'll have

• Master’s degree, or equivalent, in electrical or power systems engineering.
• 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.
• 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.
• Full UK driving licence and willing to travel to site.

It would be great if you have...

• BESS, private wire, microgrid or behind-the-meter generation; data centre or mission-critical power (MV/LV distribution, UPS, generators, redundancy topologies, commissioning levels); study tools (ETAP, PowerFactory, IPSA, PSS/E, PSCAD) or Python; IEC 61850, Modbus, DNP3, SCADA and metering data flows; NEC or FIDIC contract and change management.
• Project management credentials (APM, PRINCE2, MS Project, Primavera).

Why else you'll love it here

• Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker.
• We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about!
• Our Group CEO has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people.
• We’ve also been placed in the top 10 companies for senior leadership.

If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you, tell us what you care about, why Octopus feels right and most importantly, bring us the real you!

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As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.