Senior Consultant - Technical Advisory, Electrical T&D Expert

Our Technical Advisory practice are looking for an experienced Senior Consultant to join the team. 

Our Energy and Resources team works across the energy value chain and supports many of the world’s leading energy companies, infrastructure investors, private-equity funds, lenders, developers, network owners and government organisations. You will have the opportunity to work on transactions and projects across the UK, Europe and internationally. Our Market and Transactions unit is looking for an experienced Senior Consultant or Manager to join our Technical Advisory capability, working at the heart of the energy transition and supporting investors, developers, lenders, utilities and public-sector organisations on grid connection, grid compliance and electrical network decisions. Our Technical Advisory team combines engineering, transaction advisory and technical due diligence experience to help clients understand the connection, compliance, curtailment and network risks that determine the cost, programme and value of energy assets. You will work closely with Baringa’s market, commercial, market access and transaction advice teams, while bringing an independent and engineering-led perspective to investment and development decisions.

What you will be doing

The core of the role is applying a high voltage power systems background to the grid and electrical workstreams of buy-side, sell-side and lender technical due diligence, and to connection and network advice, across generation, storage, interconnector, network and large demand assets. You will typically:

• Support infrastructure investors, lenders, developers, utilities and public-sector clients on grid connection, compliance and electrical network questions, bringing a power systems perspective to investment and development decisions.
• Review connection applications, offers, agreements and ICP or IDNO arrangements, and the delivery programme behind them, including reinforcement dependencies, outage requirements, network operator obligations and energisation milestones, and what delay would mean for commercial operation.
• Assess grid code and connection compliance requirements such as reactive power and voltage control, frequency response, fault ride-through and power quality, and how compliance will be demonstrated through to energisation.
• Review power system studies prepared by developers, contractors and third parties, including load flow, fault level, voltage step change and harmonics, and whether the assumptions and results are reasonable.
• Assess network constraints and curtailment assumptions, including export limitation and flexible or non-firm connection arrangements, and what they mean for output and revenue.
• Review transmission and distribution infrastructure, including substations, switchgear, transformers, cables, overhead lines, protection and control systems and electrical balance of plant, and comment on design, condition and capacity headroom.
• Benchmark electrical capital and operating costs, connection charges, reinforcement liabilities and replacement assumptions, and whether they are reflected in the business plan.
• Turn complex and often incomplete technical information into clear, practical findings and recommendations for engineering and investment audiences through reports, risk registers and presentations, and take part in client discussions, technical Q&A sessions, management meetings and site

Your skills and experience

Essential experience

• You will typically have 5 to 8 years of relevant professional experience, although we welcome candidates outside this range with particularly relevant experience.
• You will have a strong foundation in electrical or power systems engineering, supported by a relevant degree, equivalent qualification or substantial practical experience.
• You will have demonstrable experience undertaking technical due diligence, Lender’s Technical Advisor assignments or comparable investor-facing technical assessments of power and grid infrastructure. This will include assessing capital and operating expenditure assumptions, identifying material technical and investment risks, and taking ownership of substantive deliverables such as technical report sections, risk registers or red flag presentations.
• You will have experience of grid connection processes, including connection strategies, applications, offers and agreements, alongside an understanding of grid code requirements and technical compliance processes for generation, storage or large demand projects.
• You will have hands-on experience independently undertaking power system studies, including relevant network modelling and analysis, using industry-standard software such as DIgSILENT PowerFactory, PSS®E, PSCAD or IPSA.
• You will have experience taking responsibility for technical workstreams, coordinating specialist inputs, engaging directly with clients and supporting junior colleagues, appropriate to your level of experience.
• Chartered Engineer status, or demonstrable progress towards chartership, would be desirable but is not essential.

Desirable experience

• Experience of network constraints and curtailment, including constraint drivers, export limitation, and flexible or non-firm connection arrangements, and their consequences for asset output.
• Experience of the GB connection and compliance regime, including engagement with the national system operator, transmission owners and network operators, and familiarity with the operational notification stage gate process, would be highly relevant.
• Experience of connection and compliance regimes in other European markets, or of interconnector, HVDC or offshore transmission projects, would be valuable.
• Experience of connection charging, reinforcement liabilities, securities, network charges, or the regulatory framework governing connections and network investment would be useful.
• Experience with network owners or operators, including asset condition assessment, capacity headroom, network performance and investment planning, would be relevant.
• Experience using operational or network datasets, automation or AI-enabled tools to support technical assessment and document review would be beneficial, provided outputs remain transparent, auditable and subject to professional judgement. What a career at Baringa will give you

Putting People First.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.

• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.

• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.

• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people. 

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this. 

Using business as a force for good. 

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.