Senior Energy Consultant - BESS

Job Description

With over 14,000 professionals globally, GHD is a leading multidisciplinary professional services company delivering engineering, design, and advisory solutions across water, energy, resources, environment, property & buildings, and transportation sectors.

Energy systems across the Middle East are evolving rapidly. Strong demand growth, major infrastructure investment, increasing renewable energy deployment and the growing need for storage, flexibility and digital solutions are creating new and complex requirements for how energy is planned, delivered and managed.

With over 14,000 professionals globally, GHD is a leading multidisciplinary professional services company delivering engineering, design, and advisory solutions across water, energy, resources, environment, property & buildings, and transportation sectors.

Energy systems across the Middle East are evolving rapidly. Strong demand growth, major infrastructure investment, increasing renewable energy deployment and the growing need for storage, flexibility and digital solutions are creating new and complex requirements for how energy is planned, delivered and managed.

In response to this transforming landscape, GHD is bringing together regional insight and global technical expertise to help utilities, governments, developers and major energy users address these challenges. Our work spans electricity networks, renewable energy, utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS), energy strategy and advisory, technical due diligence, regulatory support, grid integration, demand‑side flexibility, and the energy needs of critical sectors such as data centres and water infrastructure, supporting clients throughout the lifecycle of their energy assets and systems.

To strengthen GHD’s response and support the continued growth of our Middle East Energy team, we are looking for highly motivated professionals who bring sound technical judgement to help us deliver reliable, resilient, and lower‑carbon solutions that create lasting benefits for our communities.

As a Senior Energy Consultant, you will lead and contribute to GHD’s energy sector work across the Middle East, applying your experience across electricity networks, renewable energy, energy storage, system integration, energy strategy and technical advisory.

You will independently deliver and coordinate technical work, integrate multidisciplinary inputs and translate complex engineering matters into clear findings and practical recommendations. Assignments may span feasibility and options studies, network and substation design and delivery, technical and techno‑economic assessments, due diligence, Owner’s Engineer services, procurement support and construction‑stage services.

The role combines technical delivery with project coordination, client engagement, proposal development and the mentoring of junior professionals.

• Contribute to multidisciplinary energy projects across electricity networks,
• Contribute to the business plan for Energy growth strategy in the Middle East with local leadership.
• Lead and contribute to business development activities and leading proposals to provide technical support to win and deliver projects.
• Lead and contribute to multidisciplinary technical work streams across electricity networks, renewable energy, energy storage, system integration, energy strategy and related infrastructure.
• Deliver feasibility and options studies, engineering assessments and technical advisory assignments from initial scoping through to final recommendations.
• Assess project requirements, technical configurations, technology options, operational constraints and interfaces with existing…