Energy Storage Lead

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

• Provide professional leadership at a senior management level, primarily in Energy Storage projects, with main focus on Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), and also including hydrogen and pumped storage hydro. 
• Establish and consolidate relationships with clients, take ownership of the delivery of the region’s technical capability and support the delivery of projects or specialised components of projects.
• Support the development of Arcadis capability in Energy Storage and build and maintain a professional reputation as an individual and for Arcadis.
• Take a leadership role within the project team, providing direction and leading by example where appropriate.
• Acting together with HR and other internal resources, oversee the training of team members, encourage their growth and facilitate professional development.
• Manage the delivery of projects in accordance with Management Systems to meet time, quality, budgetary and health and safety targets.
• Manage all aspects of the client relationship so that delivery meets or exceeds client expectations.
• Work to ensure maximum client satisfaction, champion client care and proactively work with clients.
• Promote both the regional and global culture of the business.
• Provide temporary embedded support to key clients as required.

Role accountabilities:

• Lead by example to promote continual improvement in SHE performance across the business.
• Build relationships with clients to identify and realise business opportunities and to ensure that client expectations and Arcadis’ commercial objectives are met or exceeded.
• Engage with and champion the involvement and inclusion of Arcadis Global Design resources, facilitating two-way feedback on the performance of project teams using Arcadis Global Design resources.
• Provide technical leadership at a subject level.
• Evaluate technical competence of staff proposed for projects and identify specific training and mentoring needs.
• Take technical line management responsibility for the development and performance management of team members to support the delivery of Arcadis’ business.
• Support recruitment process and be personally involved in the selection process of engineering staff at all levels within the Energy Storage team.
• Lead the technical delivery of complex projects ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management and good communication and collaboration between Arcadis colleagues.
• Ensure that local staff understand the benefits of their utilisation as team resources.
• Lead on the design of innovative engineering solutions for clients that resolve complex problems.
• Coach and mentor engineering professionals to support the development of Arcadis’ talent pool.
• Through an effective review process, oversee the delivery of projects to time, meeting both quality and budgetary targets, whilst striving to exceed client expectations.
• Perform independent technical review for complex and/or major projects.
• Encourage innovative and entrepreneurial thinking amongst team members.
• Promote and market all facets of the company’s services during client interfaces.
• Manage technical client relationships with key clients and play a major role in the tendering/proposal process.
• Promote effective and efficient bid management and contribute to Go-No-Go discussions as appropriate.
• Provide input into specific technical aspects of individual bids to support the production of high-quality winning pursuits.
• Keep up to date with developments in the industry sector and with technical and legislative developments and seek out suitable opportunities to develop a strong professional profile at a National level (e.g. conference presentations, publications and participation in technical committees).
• Maintain records of Continuing Professional Development and make these available for audit by their professional institution.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Significant knowledge and track record in an Energy Storage engineering role.
• A first degree in an Electrical Engineering, Energy Storage or Renewable Energy discipline.
• Membership of a professional engineering body e.g., the IET. 
• Chartered Engineering status with an appropriate professional engineering body, or the ability to achieve this in future.
• Significant knowledge and track record in the development and delivery of Energy Storage projects and a good knowledge and understanding of the types of problems likely to be presented during the delivery of these.
• Significant knowledge and a demonstrable track record of supporting clients during project delivery. 
• Demonstrable experience in the delivery of Energy Storage projects and their associated grid connections.
• Detailed understanding of embedding Energy Storage in both transmission and distribution networks, including associated plant and equipment, their manufacture, testing, delivery, commissioning and implementation.
• The ability to identify the limits of both their personal knowledge and the limits of their team's skill and knowledge.
• Exercise sound holistic independent judgement and take responsibility for results achieved.
• Understand and comply with the Code of Conduct operated by professional institutions with influence in the delivery geography.
• Plan, carry out and record personal development and career CPD and encourage others to do the same.
• Engage with activities promoted by appropriate UK professional institutions.
• Demonstrate appropriate professional standards, recognising obligations to society, the profession and the environment.
• Exercise responsibilities in an ethical manner.
• Able to communicate well with others at all levels including effective use of English orally and in writing.
• Discuss ideas and plan competently and with confidence
• Effective personal and social skills at all levels.
• Able to manage diversity issues.
• Able to communicate new concepts and ideas to technical and non-technical colleagues including effective use of English verbally and in writing.
• Lead continuous improvement in "Safe by Design".
• Sound knowledge of legislation, hazards and safe systems of work.
• Understand how to manage health, safety and welfare within own area of responsibility.
• Lead continuous improvement in health, safety and welfare.
• Experienced in leading, and working with, people from varied discipline, backgrounds and cultures.
• Manage teams and develop staff to meet changing technical and managerial needs.
• Manage quality processes.
• Plan, direct and control tasks, people and resources.
• Lead teams and develop staff to meet changing technical and managerial needs.
• Demonstrate continuous improvement through quality management.
• Experience of managing business relationships at executive level.
• Strong consulting skills including project management and client relationship management at senior management level.
• Maintain and extend a sound theoretical approach to the application of technology in engineering practice.
• Ability to use a sound evidence-based approach to problem solving and be able to contribute to continuous improvement.
• Maintain and extend a sound theoretical approach in enabling the introduction and exploitation of new and advancing technology.
• Engage in the creative and innovative development of engineering technology and continuous improvement systems.
• Have extensive consulting experience on large scale/highly complex projects.
• Able to identify, review and select techniques, procedures and methods to undertake engineering tasks.
• Contribute to the design and development of engineering solutions.
• Implement design solutions and contribute to their evaluation.
• Conduct appropriate research, relative to design and appreciate its relevance within own area of responsibility
• Undertake the design and development of engineering solutions and evaluate their effectiveness.
• Implement or construct design solutions and evaluate their effectiveness.
• Understand market based pricing for a wide range of services in specialist discipline.
• Use sound knowledge of statutory and commercial frameworks within own area of responsibility and have an appreciation of other commercial arrangements.
• Demonstrate sound judgement on statutory, contractual and commercial issues in relation to own area of responsibility.
• Sound knowledge of sustainable development best practice.
• Manage engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development.
• Lead continuous improvement in sustainable development.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

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We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.