Electrical Engineer

Location: Woodchester

Salary Details: Depending on Experience

About The Role

Join our growing technical team to participate in solving and managing a range of electrical engineering related activities in the Renewable sector on a global basis.

We're open to this role being both full time or part time for the right candidate.

Core Responsibilities

• Designing renewable energy systems and solutions for customers that incorporate our turbines for installations on a global scale.
• Being part of and contributing to the future product development processes of the company.
• Understanding grid rules and connection criteria on a global basis and being able to advise internally and externally in this area and deal with relevant national bodies.
• Assessing supply chain options for the various pieces of electrical equipment that customer systems will require and testing these for use with our turbines and customer needs, as well as compliance with other certifying bodies in different jurisdictions.
• Creating and managing electrical installation, user and maintenance manuals.
• Providing a Technical sales support function dealing directly with customers, re-sellers and installers in support of the sales team and processes at any and all points in that process that are needed.
• Supporting the manufacturing process.
• Dealing with field queries during installation and in the aftermarket.
• Site visits as necessary.
• Participating in marketing and business development activities.

Additional Responsibilities

Any other reasonable request made to fulfill the requirements of the business.

About you…

Electrical Engineering Skills

• Ability to design and document solutions for renewable energy systems for grid connected, grid backup and off-grid systems.
• Understanding of energy management and control in domestic and small-scale renewables systems including battery management and load management.
• Testing of electrical systems, including power and energy measurement and data logging.
• Remote monitoring, database management and dashboard development.
• Power electronics
• Motor drives
• Testing and data acquisition of wind turbine systems. (Energy, loads, noise)

Grids and Standards skills and knowledge

• Knowledge of electrical standards BS 7671 and appropriate qualifications.
• Knowledge of grid compliance standards (g98 and g99)
• Familiarity with low voltage directive/machinery directive.
• Familiarity of IEC 61400 series of wind turbine standards, especially 61400-2 (small wind) and MCS product and installer standards would be helpful.

Supporting skills

• Design documentation
• Installer and user documentation.
• Technical sales support.
• Technical reseller support
• Supplier management and procurement.

Qualifications and broader experience and attributes

• Relevant qualifications.
• Enthusiasm and interest in the fast moving renewable energy space and in distributed energy solutions.
• Experience in a production environment involving electrical assembly would be helpful but not essential.
• Hands on ability to wire up components, test, inspect and monitor electrical components and systems.
• Good fault finding and diagnostic abilities.
• Ability to work on own initiative, identifying problems and solutions.
• Ability to follow agreed operating procedures and comply with Health and Safety requirements.
• Rigorous approach to documentation
• Good attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Good communication skills, including written and verbal English, record-keeping and good IT skills.
• Good people facing skills and comfortable in customer facing interactions and being able to communicate technical information to non-technical people.
• Good coaching skills and willingness and ability to help improve skills and understanding across the Britwind team.
• Team player willing to support the success of the company as a whole.

About Us

What's in it for you...

• Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
• Volunteering day
• Various company discounts (including shops, days out and events)
• Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
• Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity- the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain- by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too- we build windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this 'bills in to mills'. In 2021, we started work on building two new solar parks, and now, in 2023, we're bringing geothermal energy to our customers' fuel mix, a first in the UK. We're also developing green gas mills which will generate 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of- grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built Electric Highways, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points, we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world, and, in partnership with RSPB, we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk + RSPB.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Woodchester: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: 1517