Global Head of Engineering

The Chief Technology Officer will provide senior technical leadership across the renewable energy business with a particular focus on electrical engineering power systems grid integration and renewable generation technology The role will lead a team of specialist engineers and provide technical oversight throughout the project lifecycle from early-stage development and bidding through detailed engineering construction commissioning and operational handover A key focus will be ensuring that large-scale renewable and hybrid generation assets are technically robust commercially viable and capable of operating reliably under increasingly complex grid conditions The successful candidate will bring significant experience in utility-scale renewable generation and power systems ideally gained across an EPC developer OEM utility or grid operator environment

• Provide senior technical leadership across the renewable energy engineering function
• Set engineering standards technical strategies and design philosophies across renewable energy projects
• Provide technical input into bids tenders and early-stage project development identifying engineering risks and appropriate mitigation strategies
• Lead technical assurance throughout the project lifecycle from concept and basic engineering through detailed design commissioning and handover
• Review and approve key electrical and power systems design decisions
• Ensure renewable generation projects meet applicable grid codes international standards and client technical requirements
• Develop engineering solutions that improve plant performance reliability grid compliance and overall project competitiveness
• Provide technical direction on complex engineering challenges and support project teams in resolving critical issues

• Lead the technical approach to integrating large-scale inverter-based renewable generation into utility networks
• Provide oversight of power system studies including load flow short circuit dynamic transient stability and electromagnetic transient studies
• Review and oversee specialist studies relating to Grid stability and power quality
• Weak-grid operation
• Grid-forming and grid-following inverter behaviour
• Harmonics and resonance
• Sub-synchronous interactions
• Power system oscillations
• Protection and control
• Grid event analysis
• Ensure appropriate modelling and simulation methodologies are applied throughout the engineering and commissioning process
• Provide technical oversight of grid connection studies and compliance with country-specific grid codes
• Identify potential operational challenges that may not be captured through standard grid-code compliance and develop appropriate engineering solutions
• Provide technical leadership during grid connection energisation testing and commissioning activities

• Provide technical oversight across the electrical design of utility-scale renewable energy projects
• Review key electrical equipment selections including Transformers Switchgear HV MV systems Inverters converters Protection systems Power quality equipment SCADA and control systems Battery energy storage systems
• Ensure electrical engineering interfaces are effectively managed across generation balance of plant grid connection and control systems
• Establish appropriate technical standards and engineering specifications for major equipment packages
• Review OEM technical proposals and challenge design assumptions where appropriate

• Provide engineering leadership around plant control architecture SCADA PPC and energy management systems
• Oversee the development of control philosophies for solar wind BESS and hybrid renewable plants
• Ensure effective integration between plant controllers inverters SCADA systems and grid operator requirements
• Provide technical oversight of plant performance availability and generation commitments
• Assess the technical implications of OEM guarantees and performance commitments during bidding and project execution
• Support root-cause investigations and corrective engineering solutions following plant or grid events

• Provide senior technical oversight during factory testing site testing and commissioning
• Lead or supervise specialist testing activities including dynamic and real-time simulation where required
• Provide technical direction during grid connection energisation and performance testing
• Support resolution of complex…