Senior Consultant, Technical Advisory - Electrical T&D Expert

The role

You will apply a high voltage power systems background to grid and electrical workstreams for technical due diligence and network advice. You will support clients on grid connection, compliance, and electrical network questions across various energy assets.

What you will do

• Support infrastructure investors, lenders, developers, utilities and public-sector clients on grid connection, compliance and electrical network questions.
• Review connection applications, offers, agreements and ICP or IDNO arrangements.
• Assess grid code and connection compliance requirements.
• Review power system studies prepared by developers, contractors and third parties.
• Assess network constraints and curtailment assumptions.
• Review transmission and distribution infrastructure including substations, switchgear, transformers, cables, overhead lines, protection and control systems and electrical balance of plant.
• Benchmark electrical capital and operating costs, connection charges, reinforcement liabilities and replacement assumptions.
• Turn technical information into clear findings and recommendations through reports, risk registers and presentations.
• Take part in client discussions, technical Q&A sessions, management meetings and site visits.

Required qualifications

• 5 to 8 years of relevant professional experience, although candidates outside this range with particularly relevant experience are welcomed.
• Strong foundation in electrical or power systems engineering, supported by a relevant degree, equivalent qualification or substantial practical experience.
• Demonstrable experience undertaking technical due diligence, Lender’s Technical Advisor assignments or comparable investor-facing technical assessments of power and grid infrastructure.
• Experience of grid connection processes, including connection strategies, applications, offers and agreements.
• Understanding of grid code requirements and technical compliance processes for generation, storage or large demand projects.
• Hands-on experience independently undertaking power system studies using industry-standard software such as DIgSILENT PowerFactory, PSS®E, PSCAD or IPSA.
• Experience taking responsibility for technical workstreams, coordinating specialist inputs, engaging directly with clients and supporting junior colleagues.

Nice to have

• Chartered Engineer status, or demonstrable progress towards chartership
• Experience of network constraints and curtailment
• Experience of the GB connection and compliance regime
• Experience of connection and compliance regimes in other European markets, or of interconnector, HVDC or offshore transmission projects
• Experience of connection charging, reinforcement liabilities, securities, network charges, or the regulatory framework governing connections and network investment
• Experience with network owners or operators
• Experience using operational or network datasets, automation or AI-enabled tools

Benefits

• 5 weeks of annual leave
• 5-Year Recharge benefit: 2 weeks of additional paid leave after 5 years continuous service
• Hybrid working policy
• Flexibility around taking unpaid leave
• 3 Corporate Responsibility Days per year
• Annual People Fund to support and manage wellbeing
• Participation in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme

About the company

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms.