Wind Advisory Consultant

Wind Advisory Consultant RES Glasgow, Scotland

RES is expanding its Advisory Services offering with its consultancy team within our Asset Management Department, which manages a growing fleet of renewable energy assets. We are looking for an experienced renewables consultant to join this team.

The Renewable Energy Consultant will deliver client-facing advisory work across our portfolio, including due diligence, owner's engineering, and lifetime extension and repowering assessments for onshore wind. Skill and experience in evaluating end-of-life strategies for operational wind farms — whether to extend, repower or decommission — will be central to the role.

The position reports to the Advisory Services Team Lead (UK&I)

• Understand and interpret client’s needs, clearly communicating client’s goals to internal and external stakeholders
• Be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of Advisory Services and one-off projects on behalf of clients including due diligence, owners engineering and general technical mission
• Support our growth and cost reduction targets
• Undertake technical, project management, commercial and customer-facing activities
• Support regular communication with target clients and provide feedback to the business units to refine the product offering

Prepare & deliver presentations and reports for Asset Management team and/or clients

• Ensuring that appropriate contracts are agreed with clients and time and cost is accounted for appropriately within the business
• Ensure the quality of work meets clients’ expectations
• Work with all internal stakeholders, and any sub-contractors
• Ensure project deliverables stay on time, on target, and on budget
• Supporting the development of proposals to secure new work
• Responsibility for the financial performance of any projects managed
• Mentor and support less experienced team members
• Identify and communicate relevant technological developments or regulatory changes which may impact the business or provide new opportunities

• Work with clients to identify their requirements and key points of contact
• Attending client meetings and undertaking site visits within the UK and globally

• Understanding of technical aspects of renewable energy infrastructure projects
• Knowledge of renewable energy systems, preferably onshore wind and/or battery energy storage systems
• Established network of contacts within the renewables industry
• Understanding of commercial aspects of renewable energy infrastructure projects (including project finance)
• Understanding of lifetime extension, repowering and end-of-life decision-making for onshore wind assets

• Proven ability to produce clear written reports and communicate verbally in English
• Strong commercial and contractual awareness
• Team player
• Project management
• Initiative/Self motivated
• Planning and organising
• Attention to Detail
• Completer finisher
• Ability to manage and prioritise multiple tasks
• Willingness to travel
• Proficiency in other language(s)

• Owners engineering, due diligence, technical advisory and/or consultancy activities in the Onshore Wind field and hybrid wind systems
• Lifetime extension assessments and/or repowering feasibility studies for onshore wind (. remaining useful life analysis, DNVGL-ST-0262 or equivalent)
• Similar consultancy or in-field experience with battery storage systems would be considered advantageous
• Modelling experience in Wind farmer, WindPRO, Python, PVSyst, Chronos considered advantageous
• Experience in the renewables industry in a technical consulting capacity
• Managing budgets and project costs
• Client facing experience in a consultancy role
• Contract specification review and preparation
• Competent user of Microsoft Office
  365 products

• Bachelor's or Master's degree (or equivalent) in an engineering discipline — . mechanical, electrical, civil/structural or aeronautical engineering — from an accredited institution
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or actively working towards chartership with a relevant institution (IMechE, IET, ICE or equivalent), or an equivalent international designation (. PE, Eur Ing)
  Postgraduate qualification in wind…