Balance of Plant (BoP) Engineer

Department: Development + Construction

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK - London

Reporting To: Head of Project Construction

Description

Key Responsibilities

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2. Understanding the technical details of the civil and electrical scope of each project
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   2. Understand property, planning and grid connection details from our development team
      
   3. Support the procurement of ground investigation and technical studies such as Abnormal Indivisible Load studies and earthworks strategies to ensure we are well-positioned to negotiate water-tight contracts
      
   
   
   
3. Preparing the technical aspects of and support new tenders by:
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   2. Ensuring Field’s Employer’s Requirements remain fit for purpose
      
   3. Continuously improving our interface management, commissioning and take over procedures
      
   4. Feeding lessons learnt from current projects into our future contracts
      
   5. Assembling the project documents needed in our contracts
      
   6. Visiting sites with contractors
      
   
   
   
4. Undertake the technical aspects of tender evaluation
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   2. Ensure contractors’ proposals are fit for purpose
      
   3. Rigorously and fairly evaluate tender responses
      
   4. Work with the procurement team to make recommendations to the business
      
   
   
   
5. Technically support the contract negotiation phase of our projects, alongside Legal and Procurement teams (for balance of plant and Independent Connection Provider contracts) by:
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   2. Working with suppliers to finalise the technical contract schedules
      
   3. Navigate commercial negotiations to find engineering solutions acceptable to all parties
      
   
   
   
6. Technically supporting the financing phase of our projects by overseeing technical due diligence exercises
   
7. Programme management
   1. Use project management tools to communicate realistic timelines to the wider business
   
   
   

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

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• Engineering, science or industry experience in a technical role
  
• Experience working on contracts for energy projects (batteries, onshore and offshore wind, solar, peaking plants, interconnectors/HVDC, thermal power generation)
  

Benefits

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• Hybrid working (blend of home and office working to suit individual needs)
  
• NEST Pension (8% combined contributions)
  
• 13 weeks paid leave for all new parents 
  
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
  
• Annual learning & development budget to spend on whatever best supports your growth
  
• 1 month a year ‘work from anywhere in the world’ policy 
  
• Green leave policy - paid time off to do something good for the environment
  
• Fun co-working office space in Second Home, Brick Lane
  
• Dog friendly office (with some regular furry friends already in the team)
  
• Free team lunch once a week
  
• Regular team socials
  
• Birthday carbon offset - a gift from Field to the world to celebrate your birthday
  
• & many more on the way!