Energise your career, accelerate a net-zero future - #RenewablesJobs

At EDF Renewables our purpose is to accelerate a net-zero future where clean energy powers our lives. Our people are passionate about developing the low-carbon energy systems of the future and acting against climate change.

Location: Edinburgh, Durham, London

Competitive: Salary & Benefits

Contract Type: Full Time - Permanent

Closing Date:

What’s the scope of the role?

As Structural Engineer you will deliver services in the Engineering Team, CTO, and wider business, demonstrating an ability to add value to opportunities in a highly competitive and changing marketplace while ensuring appropriate Engineering and Quality standards are maintained.

Your role will be to develop and maintain relationships across EDF Renewables in the UK, and the wider EDF Group in the UK and internationally. In addition, you will develop and maintain external relationships with our supply chain, Industry bodies, technical standards organisations, academia/research bodies, and wider network in order to enhance, promote, and protect our activity and brand.

What you’ll be doing day to day.

You will demonstrate, by example, adherence and involvement to deliver the four strategic pillars of EDF Renewables UK, namely Zero Harm, Operational Excellence, Business Growth and Inspiring People in addition to;

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  Contribute to building and strengthening a skilled, high performing, and motivated Team, with an open and positive working environment, and a culture of excellence, collaboration, and trust.
• Provide Structural Engineering support to the business during periods of high risk and urgency.
• Provide Structural technical direction and support to establish a temporary or permanent corrective action plan, and support root cause analysis and solution development when required.
• Ensure all Structural Engineering assessments, advice and recommendations are fully documented in accordance with all internal procedures.
• Support technical and commercial due diligence (whether internal or external) activities.
• Responsible for ensuring Structural related risks are identified, captured, recorded, and addressed appropriately, providing technical expertise and guidance to ensure risk level is ALARP.
• Support the operations team with developing maintenance and care strategies for structures and foundations of Offshore and Onshore wind assets
• Ensure that Structural related lifetime costs are optimised during the origination, design, and construction of EDF Renewable assets.
• Ensure decommissioning and/or end of life of Structural components is considered during the design and construction phases of projects.
• Actively engage in internal lead teams and committees and build a strong support network with the wider EDF business.
• Represent EDF Renewables in external meetings, industry bodies, tradeshows, and conventions.

What do you need to be great at this role?

You’ll be a proven Engineer successful in delivering projects/programmes, establishing/managing relationships, securing and maintaining a safe environment, managing priorities, and inspiring and influencing behaviours and actions with a strong commitment to safety, health, environment, and quality.

You will hold a minimum of an Engineering degree in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, or related discipline. Chartered membership of an appropriate body would be an advantage. NEBOSH or IOSH (or equivalent) is desirable.

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  Highly proficient in key areas of Engineering in the renewables environment.
• Specialist in a Civil or Structural Engineering discipline within the renewable energy sector.
• Strong experience of managing risks and challenges in a renewables environment.
• Excellent at building successful relationships with external partners, peers, stakeholders and reporting line.
• Design and/or operational experience in any of the following is desirable:
  • Wind turbine onshore foundations
  • Wind turbine offshore foundations (monopiles, jackets, gravity based, floating), transition piece, and corrosion protection system
  • Steel structures inc. wind turbine towers, platforms, secondary steels structures
  • Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) foundations and mounting structures
  • Photovoltaic (PV) mounting structures
  • Foundation Condition Monitoring Systems
• Good command of Microsoft Office package (MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point, etc.).
• Flexible to travel around the UK and overseas as the role requires.
• Full clean UK driving licence.
• Excellent (English) oral and written communication skills.

Pay, benefits & culture.

At EDF we’re dedicated to offering flexible benefits that support our people across all aspects of their lives. We’re delighted to offer a range of benefits to support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a market-leading company pension scheme, paid holidays, and a range of flexible benefits, such as: a company incentive bonus plan, health cover, cycle to work scheme, gym membership, discounts, and employee pricing.

Please let us know if you’d like to discuss flexible working arrangements by highlighting this on your application.

Why EDF Renewables?

At EDF Renewables our purpose is to accelerate a net-zero future where clean energy powers our lives. Our people are passionate about developing the low-carbon energy systems of the future and acting against climate change.

We are an inclusive and diverse business; we recognise that our differences make us stronger and increase our ability to innovate and succeed quickly. We challenge ourselves to continuously improve to achieve our purpose, while rewarding work and recognizing the contribution each of our employees makes to achieving our goals.

With our operating portfolio, already totaling more than 1GW, we are providing some of the much-needed new, affordable, low-carbon electricity to the UK and Ireland across four technologies (offshore and onshore wind, solar and battery storage), and plan to build five times this over the coming years, including green hydrogen. Currently we have 700MW in construction.

learn more, visit www.edf-re.uk