Senior​/Principal Energy Technical Consultant – Core Energy Advisory

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Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom Capabilities:
Electrical Office Setup:
Hybrid Company:
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At Jacobs, our Energy & Power team is focused on providing a whole system approach, offering end-to-end service to support our clients in energy networks, decarbonised & renewable generation and storage solutions.  We are helping our clients to address the challenges and opportunities regarding decarbonisation/net zero issues specifically in relation to requirements for delivering the global energy transition.

A career at Jacobs means working on some of the world’s most exciting projects, solving complex challenges and undertake meaningful work that benefits our communities and the world. Grow your career at Jacobs, a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow.

About the Opportunity We are currently seeking a Senior/Principal Energy Consultant with an engineering background to expand our team to help deliver continued growth in our services and greater value to our client’s requirements. In this role, you will manage and deliver a range of advisory services, and provide wider support enabling the growth and development of our team. A key element of this is being at the forefront of dynamic change, in terms of regulatory changes, best practice and guidance, technology development and translating this into real world solutions for the client.

The successful candidate will have a strong focus on delivering energy management, efficiency improvement and net-zero strategies. You will demonstrate a strong understanding of current and emerging energy systems, including their technical properties, economic viability, and environmental impacts. This can include low carbon generation, as well as energy storage technologies. You will also bring experience across public, industrial and commercial energy use;

with a record of delivering energy savings, developing utility infrastructure, and driving emission reductions to support client’s decarbonisation objectives. We welcome applicants with diverse experience and perspectives, even if you don’t meet every requirement.

Key Responsibilities:

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Technical Advisory:

Lead the technical development and delivery of energy projects, including development of energy centres with turbine, CHP, heat pumps, geothermal technology understandings.

Manage inputs from multidisciplinary teams comprising discipline engineering specialists, environmental, and planning specialists. Develop and review feasibility studies, optioneering assessments, business cases, and techno-economic analyses. Provide technical leadership during concept design, pre-FEED and owners engineer through later lifecycle stages. Ensure solutions are technically robust, economically viable, safety maintainable, and compliant with applicable legislation, standards, and industry best practice. Support project governance, risk management, quality assurance, and stakeholder engagement activities.

Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the development of engineering standards, processes, and best practices.
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Technical Innovation and Best Practices:

Identify and use technical tools to support project delivery and contribute to the development of best practices and standard methodologies.

Stay abreast of industry trends and technological advancements in energy sector.

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