Bess / Solar Engineer

Global Engineering consultancy with excellent career opportunities
- Focus on BESS / Solar / Renewables
- Hybrid working environment

About SMEC

SMEC provides unique opportunities to work on iconic industry projects with experienced colleagues and leadership teams. We support and empower employees to drive innovation initiatives within a well-established and growing organisation.

Every employee plays a key role in shaping our business and is driven by teamwork, progressive thinking and creative ideas. We are committed to providing platforms to enable our people to engage in the business, deliver value to clients and develop their careers.

SMEC delivers smart solutions for clients and communities in Infrastructure, Urban Development and Energy & Resources driven by a desire to improve the world in which we live. Our diverse and skilled teams are engaged in major projects across Transport, Water, Energy and renewables sectors.

Power & Energy

SMEC is a global provider of engineering, environmental and construction services, consolidating all aspects of Energy and Renewables Infrastructure from planning to delivery. Our clients draw on an international knowledge pool of planners, renewable energy consultants and technical specialists to deliver bespoke, value engineered outcomes.

Our expertise includes grid connection studies, substation design, policy and sector planning, carbon services, load forecasting models, and long-term generation planning using simulation and dynamic programming techniques. We have delivered stand-alone and grid-tie photovoltaic and solar thermal projects, ‘water to wire’ services on mini and micro-hydro projects, geothermal power plants and generation facilities.

The Role

We are seeking to engage a BESS Engineer to join our Energy Team in Auckland. This role is responsible for providing the design engineering knowledge and effective project management skills specific to BESS, Solar and Renewables projects across ANZ.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Assisting more senior Engineers with the analysis of information, production of designs and computations under broad supervision
- Preparing specifications, proposals and other documentation under broad supervision
- Using a combination of standard and modified Engineering methods/techniques in addition to those developed in previous assignments for the purpose of solving problems
- Preparing client and technical reports
- Researching for alternative solutions via Internet and library resources to assist in ensuring that solutions both make commercial sense and meet the clients requirements
- Assuming responsibility for the accuracy and correctness of calculations prepared for design
- Working within project timeframes and budgets

About You

Suitable applicants will be/have:

- Tertiary Qualification in Engineering
- Relevant experience and background in BESS, Solar and Renewables is essential
- Ability to independently use basic theoretical knowledge of Engineering principles to analyse, interpret and conclude on standard matters or decisions
- Good interpersonal skills to work effectively within a diverse and multi-disciplinary environment

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How to Apply

All recruitment activities go through our Recruitment & Talent function and currently, this role doesn’t require agency input. Please do not forward resume directly to SMEC employees/managers; we do not accept unsolicited resumes and are not responsible for any associated fees.

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