Project Engineer – Solar, Storage & Private Wire Delivery

Job Description

As a Senior Battery Engineer in EDF Renewables’ Delivery team, you will play a key role in delivering our solar, battery storage and private wire projects. This role focuses on taking projects from planning permission through to construction and operational handover. You will coordinate engineering input, support procurement and manage contractor interfaces to ensure projects are delivered to high standards of safety, quality, and value.

This is a delivery-focused engineering role with scope to get involved in early-stage development and technology evaluation. It’s ideal for someone with strong technical grounding and the drive to grow into a rounded project delivery engineer.

Pay, benefits and culture

If you’re looking to join a company where you can work hard, have fun, and help to create a Net Zero future – then you’re in the right place!’

Our passion for embracing new ideas and being open-minded to change helps us continue to grow successfully.

We’re committed to helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment.

Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that’s an electric vehicle, private healthcare, additional holiday or one or more of our other benefits.

We’ll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that’s on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.

We’re committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone’s Welcome inclusion programme.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll support the delivery of Solar, Storage and Private Wire projects post-planning consent through to handover.

• Work with internal stakeholders (development, procurement, HSE, operations) to shape Employer’s Requirements and delivery strategy.
• Assist in tender preparation and evaluation, supporting contractor selection.
• Take ownership of key project packages, managing engineering review processes and tracking technical deliverables.
• Review contractor proposals directly and coordinate input from internal specialists and external consultants.
• Conduct site visits and monitor construction and commissioning activities including FAT & SAT.
• Coordinate use of internal commissioning and quality resources as needed.
• Stay informed of new technologies, regulations, and Grid Code developments relevant to SSPW delivery.
• Opportunity to support early-stage development and concept design work if desired.

What do you need to be great at this role?

You’ll have a degree in engineering or a related technical discipline.

• Project delivery experience in energy, construction or infrastructure (solar or BESS preferred).
• Practical understanding of engineering delivery from design to commissioning.
• Comfortable coordinating with multidisciplinary teams and external contractors.
• Good judgement and a pragmatic approach
• Enthusiastic, adaptable, and committed to learning.
• NEBOSH/IOSH and/or commissioning experience is advantageous but not essential.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills and written/verbal communication.

Location: London, Durham, Edinburgh

At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we’re committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.

It’s a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland’s challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland’s most diverse generator of renewable energy.

To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we’re working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.

If you’re passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us.

Join us, and let’s do good together.