The job you are trying to view has expired. Please perform a new search to find current jobs.

Senior Engineer

OFGEM -
Glasgow

Job details

Permanent | Part-time | Full-time
£52,397 - £62,699 a year

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension
Tech scheme
Flexible schedule

Qualifications

Engineering
Renewable energy
Technical support
Presentation skills
Quantitative analysis
Communication skills

Full job description

Details

Reference number

466528

Salary

£49,452 - £62,699

London: £52,397 - £62,699
Cardiff / Glasgow: £49,452 - £58,519

Please ensure that you read the Pay and Reward information for civil service and internal colleagues before applying.

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Grade 7
Other

Level 2b

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

Delivery & Schemes, Audit & Compliance

Type of role

Engineering

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time

Number of jobs available

Location
About the job
Benefits
Things you need to know
Apply and further information

Location

Successful candidates may be based in any of our office locations Cardiff, Glasgow, or London. We especially welcome applicants from Cardiff and Glasgow.

About the job

Job summary

Ofgem is Great Britains independent energy regulator. Our purpose is to protect energy consumers, especially vulnerable people, by ensuring they are treated fairly and benefit from a cleaner, greener environment.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Engineer to join our Delivery and Schemes directorate within Audit & Compliance. This is your chance to play a key role in supporting the delivery of renewable electricity schemes.

Youll provide expert engineering and technical support across Ofgem, contributing to renewable electricity schemes through accreditation, compliance and audit processes. Your work will support robust, evidence-based decision-making and ensure schemes are delivered in line with their rules and obligations.

In this role, you will provide high-quality and timely engineering advice on participant applications, amendments to accreditation, and compliance investigations. You will contribute engineering expertise to the development and reform of renewable electricity schemes and associated policy.

Youll work with internal teams to translate technical engineering concepts into clear, practical advice for non-technical audiences, supporting decision-making across operations, compliance and policy. You will also design and deliver technical training to large and diverse audiences, building understanding of engineering requirements relevant to scheme delivery.

Maintaining professional development will be important in this role, including staying up to date with changes to technical standards and advancements in renewable electricity technology impacting scheme delivery.

Youll engage with external stakeholders, including government departments, industry bodies and scheme participants, and represent Ofgem at meetings, conferences and events, clearly communicating technical positions.

This role offers the opportunity to apply your engineering expertise to support the effective delivery of renewable electricity schemes and contribute to positive outcomes for consumers.

Join us and help shape the future of energy in the UK.

Job description

You will be someone who:

Is educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline or has equivalent industry experience.
Has experience applying engineering expertise in an advisory or analytical capacity, particularly where complex electricity-related issues need to be interpreted and explained to others.
Is able to translate technical engineering concepts into clear, practical advice for non-technical audiences, supporting decision-making across operations, compliance or policy.
Has strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build understanding and confidence in engineering decisions across a wide range of stakeholders.
Enjoys using engineering knowledge to support others and influence decisions.
Has an interest in the energy sector and is motivated by achieving positive outcomes for consumers, supporting Ofgems role in delivering a fair, sustainable and secure net zero energy system.
Contributes to a positive and inclusive working environment, valuing diversity of thought, experience and background while supporting colleagues to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Delivery and Schemes (D&S)

Ofgem delivers renewable energy schemes and social programmes on behalf of government this is done through the Delivery and Schemes Directorate (D&S). These schemes are varied covering renewable heat, renewable electricity, energy efficiency and fuel poverty collectively, they are worth £12bn a year. And crucially, these schemes are critical to hitting our Net Zero goals and providing support for households.

Through our efforts, we ensure that both consumers and participants receive the necessary support without imposing undue costs on consumers and taxpayers. A crucial element of this is guaranteeing that payments made under government schemes are accessible to participating generators and installations that meet and continue to adhere to the rules and obligations of these schemes.

The successful candidate will be deployed to support work in our Renewable Electricity Participant Compliance team (REPC) and Renewable Electricity Operations team.

Key Responsibilities

Responsible for providing high quality and timely engineering advice on Participant applications for (and amendments to) accreditation and compliance investigations under the Renewable Electricity schemes.
Delivering training across D&S to large and diverse non-technical audiences, focused on engineering requirements relevant to renewable electricity scheme delivery (operations and compliance).
Maintaining professional development, staying abreast of changes to technical standards and advancements in renewable electricity technology impacting scheme delivery.

Key Outputs and Deliverables

Provide technical expertise to support accreditation, audit, and compliance processes and decisions, ensuring outcomes are robust, evidence-based, and defensible.
Contribute engineering expertise to the development and reform of renewable electricity schemes and associated policy.
Design and deliver technical training to large and diverse non-technical audiences, building understanding of engineering requirements across D&S.
Represent Ofgem at external meetings, conferences and events, clearly communicating Ofgems position on relevant technical issues.

Key Stakeholder Relationships

Internal

Workstream and Portfolio Managers
Audit & Compliance Team Managers
Operations Team Managers
Professional Development Leads
HR
Legal and policy teams

External

Other Government Departments including but not limited to DESNZ, GIAA and NAO
Scheme participants
Industry bodies including, but not limited to, Energy UK, Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS), certification bodies

Person specification

Please ensure you demonstrate clearly within your personal statement, how you meet each of the Essential and Desirable criteria below (not more than 1250 words).

Essential Criteria:

Educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline (electrical, environmental, renewable or similar) or equivalent industry experience
Relevant experience in electricity generation or wider power systems (e.g. commissioning, transmission, distribution or renewable energy) with the ability to apply this knowledge to renewable electricity schemes
Expertise in both quantitative and qualitative analysis
Proven track record of delivering complex engineering projects to challenging timescales
Excellent communication/interpersonal skills including the ability to explain technical issues to non-technical audiences

Desirable Criteria:

Chartered Engineer (holds the qualifications to progress towards gaining registration)
Experience of Renewable Energy generation and battery storage
Knowledge of governments renewable electricity schemes including the Renewables Obligation

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Changing and Improving
Communicating and Influencing
Making Effective Decisions
Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £49,452, OFGEM contributes £14,326 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but this is kept under review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

When you press the Apply now button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications.

You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word personal statement evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the criteria listed in the role profile. In the event of receiving a large number of applications, an initial sift may take place on just the lead criteria indicated in the essential criteria.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by [https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn].

At Ofgem, we expect our staff to carry out their roles with honesty, fairness and openness. They should follow the Civil Service code and be free from any influence or bias. We are committed to making sure interests are recognised, declared and managed appropriately so that we can fulfil our duties as an energy regulator. Our Conflicts of Interest policy outlines the types of interests Ofgem staff must declare before onboarding, and the rules they must follow throughout employment so that we can clearly demonstrate that our decisions are not influenced by private interests.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : Lisa Buchanan
Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

Email : [email protected]

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commissions Recruitment Principles. You have the right to complain if you feel there has been a breach of these Recruitment Principles.

In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly via [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission, please visit their website.

Details

Reference number

Salary

Job grade

Contract type

Business area

Type of role

Working pattern

Number of jobs available

Contents

Location

About the job

Job summary

Job description

Person specification

Behaviours

Benefits

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Selection process details

Security

Nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

Diversity and Inclusion

Apply and further information

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Recruitment team

Further information

Jobseeker tools

Employer Tools

Browse

Stay Connected