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Do you want to work to make Power for Good?

We're the world's largest independent renewable energy company. We're driven by a simple yet powerful vision: to create a future where everyone has access to affordable, zero carbon energy.

We know that achieving our ambitions would be impossible without our people; they're our most important asset so that's why we continually invest in them.

RES is a family friendly workplace with a diverse workforce, and we are dedicated to the personal professional growth of our people, no matter what stage of their career they're at. We truly value and respect the individual contributions of our people and believe that diversity provides an important range of perspectives. A fair and inclusive culture makes us stronger. Our unique culture of care and inclusion extends to the environment and to external communities, stakeholders, clients, suppliers, and the carbon footprint we leave. We can promise you rewarding work which makes a real impact, the chance to learn from inspiring colleagues from across a growing, global network and opportunities to grow personally and professionally.

Our competitive package offers rewards and benefits including pension schemes, flexible working, and top-down emphasis on better work-life balance. We also offer private healthcare, discounted green travel, 25 days holiday with options to buy/sell days, enhanced family leave and four volunteering days per year so you can make a difference somewhere else.

The Position

The Energy Storage Engineer/Senior Energy Storage Engineer is responsible for design, contract specification and system safety across all phases of energy storage projects, ensuring projects meet the performance, service and safety requirements defined by the client, in the contract, by law, and by RES exacting focus on safety.

The role provides expert technical advice relating on: -

• Batteries;
• Battery enclosure & auxiliary equipment;
• PCS equipment; and
• Control system requirements in accordance with project obligations.

Health and safety are at the core of RES’ values and we are committed to promoting safe behaviours across all of our business activities. This role requires full investment into these principles and a commitment to positively promote our safety programme to ensure that every employee, consultant, contractor or subcontractor “Goes Home Safely”

Organisational Context

The role sits within the group engineering department reporting to the Storage & Hydrogen Engineering Manager working on regional projects as well as global storage standardisation and strategic procurement for PCS and batteries.

Key Accountabilities

The Energy Storage Engineer/Senior Energy Storage Engineer is responsible for:

Understanding internal and external customer technical and commercial requirements to ensure all solutions maximize value

• Providing technical support to the project team in addressing issues with battery and PCS suppliers;
• Undertaking the system FMEA and availability analysis for the project and incorporating associated changes into the relevant scope of design;
• Battery sizing, battery enclosure and PCS selection and configuration;
• Provide the technical specification for the Battery supply and PCS supply agreements;
• Provide expert technical support to the project team during procurement, contract negotiations, and project delivery
• Prepare the control system specification to define the control system requirements in accordance with the project obligations

Energy Storage Engineers may also support or manage other technology workstreams, including solar PV, and other regions within RES global markets.

At RES we celebrate difference as we know it makes our company a great place to work. Encouraging applicants with different backgrounds, ideas and points of view, we create teams who work together to solve complex problems and design practical solutions for our clients. Our multiple perspectives come from many sources including the diverse ethnicity, culture, gender, nationality, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, marital status, parental status, education, social background and life experience of our people.

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