Senior Engineer – Onshore Wind Technical Due Diligence and Construction Management

We’re excited to be hiring a senior engineer with a focus on the French onshore wind sector. You will be joining a growing and dynamic international team which is already well established with an abundance of Wind experience in Europe and an ambition to expand into other emerging markets.

Salary: A competitive basic salary related to your experience, plus pension scheme, annual profit share and route into company ownership

Deadline for applications: 20^th December 2024

Location: Paris/Lyon

Hours: Normal office hours with a healthy level of flexibility

Everoze is different

We’re more than just a technical and commercial consultancy, specialising in renewables, storage, green hydrogen and wider energy flexibility. We live our values. We’re passionate about accelerating the transition to a decarbonised energy system. We have no bosses or formal hierarchy. We are free to pursue opportunities that deliver our strategy. We take ownership of our own development and support one another along the way. Our pay is transparent and set by our peers. We, the employees, own the company and we share a portion of our profits equally. We believe that a strong and healthy work life needs a strong and healthy home life. We encourage flexible working practices for all to be there for the kids’ swim lessons, a favourite hobby, or learning new skills.

We’re OK with being different. Everoze isn’t for everyone. But it might just be for you… Find out more here

Your role

You will provide a wide range of technical and commercial consultancy services to project developers, investors, lenders or operators mainly in France. You will also support our other core markets in the UK, Spain, Portugal, and Germany as well as other markets from time to time. Over the past years, Everoze has been involved, either as sell-side or buy-side technical advisor, in most substantial M&A transactions operated on the French market.

Specific activities will include:

• Conducting technical and commercial due diligence. This will include the assessment of project risks which could result in a deviation from the project or portfolio financial model, particularly lower energy yield, delays to the project timeline, higher Capex and Opex, and then to propose relevant mitigation measures. Assessed areas would typically cover: land securement, administrative authorisations, environmental constraints, project design, tariff scheme, grid connection, construction and operation contracts, project timeline, etc.;
• Construction management and SPV representative role during construction phase and until project take-over. This may include: review of documentation issued during construction by the various construction stakeholders (WTG manufacturer, BoP contractors, geotechnical surveyor, control office, environmental surveyors, authorities, land owners, grid operator, offtakers, etc.), monthly reporting to SPV owner, construction contractors invoices approvals, onsite inspections, assessment of construction contractors claims or requested variation orders, review of tests on completion, wind turbine and BoP inspection before taking-over, punch list issuance or approval;
• Managing multiple projects utilising internal and external resources;
• Business development.

Everoze works across multiple technologies and there is potential to specialise in your areas of interest or to broaden your expertise: We encourage you to take ownership of your career.

We would like to hear from you if you meet the following requirements

Ethos

• You share our core beliefs of entrepreneurship, partnership and quality
• You are self-motivated and will take advantage of the autonomy to shape your own career
• You want to use your skills to change our energy system for the better

Essential skills and qualifications

• Engineering degree or Master of Science or MEng or similar;
• At least three years of first technical experience (development, construction, asset management or within technical consultancy) in the energy sector
• Existing knowledge of onshore wind French market and due diligence process

Soft skills required for the position

• Comfortable working on projects with evolving scopes, in the context of competing priorities and managing client deadlines
• Capable of determining commercial implications of technical risks
• Track record of developing and building lasting client relationships
• Able to write clear, concise and accurate reports in French and English

Nice-to-haves, but not essential

• Strong organizational, networking & personal skills
• Good knowledge of the technical due diligence process and competence for individual subject tasks
• Field experience of onshore wind projects (development, construction, asset management)
• Experience in other European and worldwide markets
• Additional language skills
• Entrepreneurship or out of the box thinking to come up with new ideas

We understand that some great applicants may not excel across all of the above criteria. We are willing to support people who have a great fit with the Everoze culture, who are passionate about what we do, and who have great strengths in a sub-set of the above fields. If you love the role and can demonstrate your ability to apply your strengths and adapt to new fields, we encourage you to apply.

How to apply

Everoze embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. For this reason, we only accept applications through the BeApplied platform which is designed to avoid unconscious bias. You will be asked to answer 3-5 short questions designed to give you the opportunity to demonstrate the core skills we are looking for. These will be reviewed anonymously, before reviewing your CV, your details or even your name, and the highest scoring applicants will be invited for interview.

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