Technical Director - Regulated Utilities

Job Description

Technical Director (Regulated Power / Utilities)

GHD is a global network of multi-disciplinary professionals providing clients with integrated solutions through engineering, environmental, design and construction expertise. Our future-focused, innovative approaches connect and support communities around the world, building resiliency and sustainability for generations to come.

Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. Today, we are 10,000+ professionals across 200+ offices on five continents
, united by a shared purpose: to make water, energy and communities sustainable for generations to come.

GHD's Energy Solutions UK business is strengthening its senior leadership team with a pivotal appointment:
Tech Director – Regulated Power Utilities
.

This is a rare opportunity to join a high-performing consultancy during a period of strategic growth, stepping into a role that offers true technical authority, senior client influence, and market-shaping impact across the UK's regulated energy landscape.

If you want to operate as a trusted senior advisor
, influence the future of regulated electricity systems, and shape complex, high-impact consulting programmes - this is the opportunity to do it.

As Tech Director – Regulated Power Utilities
, you will provide senior technical leadership across GHD's regulated power and utilities portfolio, combining deep subject matter authority with client leadership, delivery excellence, and people development.

• Act as technical lead and sign-off authority for major regulated power and utilities engagements.
• Set and assure technical methodologies, frameworks, and governance across the practice.
• Lead and review work spanning electricity networks, regulation, renewables integration, system operability, and resilience
  .
• Provide authoritative advice to clients at executive, regulator, and board level
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• Build and expand senior relationships across utilities, regulators, system operators, and government bodies.
• Operate as a seller-doer
  , shaping, winning, and delivering high-value advisory work.
• Strengthen GHD's profile and credibility in UK and international regulated energy markets
  .

• Lead multi-million-pound consulting engagements from bid through to delivery.
• Ensure excellence in quality, compliance, commercial performance, and client satisfaction
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• Contribute to long-term programmes across regulatory strategy, network development, and future energy systems
  .

• Mentor senior engineers, consultants, and emerging leaders across Energy Solutions.
• Shape and embed technical excellence and thought leadership within the practice.
• Support succession planning and the recruitment of senior technical talent.

• Electricity transmission and distribution advisory
• Regulatory price control strategy and economic assessment
• Grid integration of renewables and energy storage
• System operability, resilience, and future networks analysis
• Multi‑year government and regulator support programmes

• Senior technical leadership experience within regulated electricity, power networks, or regulatory advisory
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• Credible operating experience engaging at executive, regulator, or board level
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• Proven track record leading and delivering complex consultancy engagements (ideally £1m+).
• Strong stakeholder engagement across utilities, regulators, and system operators
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• Established relationships within the UK utilities and regulatory landscape
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• Experience contributing to regulatory submissions, industry guidance, or thought leadership
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• Ability to bring or build technical followership
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• International regulated energy market exposure.

• UK‑based
  , with flexibility on office location.
• Preference for candidates without visa restrictions
  , due to international client work.
• Flexible and hybrid working supported.

• Sustained growth in high-value regulated advisory engagements
• Re‑established senior technical presence in…