Senior Electrical Engineer - Climate Resilience

Job summary

At the forefront of the fight to safeguard Britain’s energy infrastructure against climate change and extreme weather, Ofgem is strengthening the resilience of the systems that power our homes, businesses and communities. We’re looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer – Climate Resilience to join us and help shape the technical and regulatory foundations of a secure, low-carbon energy system fit for the future.

Ofgem is Great Britain’s independent energy regulator. We’re at the forefront of change across the energy sector, driving toward Net Zero whilst protecting energy consumers, especially vulnerable people.

With an excellent benefits package and opportunities for flexible and hybrid working, we’re offering a permanent opportunity within our Infrastructure – Engineering & Technology Directorate, positioned at the heart of our Climate Resilience programme. This is a unique chance to combine your engineering expertise with policy influence, ensuring that climate adaptation and resilience are embedded into the regulation of energy networks.

Working closely with our Climate Resilience team, you’ll provide expert technical insight that informs regulatory and strategic decision-making. You’ll engage with senior leaders, government, industry and academia, contributing to high-profile workstreams that influence the direction of national resilience planning.

You’ll operate across engineering and policy boundaries, applying robust analysis to support regulatory choices and strategic priorities. From shaping thinking on transmission and distribution resilience to contributing to wider climate adaptation cycles and research, your expertise will help ensure that resilience measures are effective, proportionate and grounded in sound engineering judgement.

Job description

We’re looking for someone with a strong engineering background in the power sector, with a decent grasp of resilience or climate adaptation. You’ll bring professional registration (or be working towards it), strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, and the ability to deliver complex work to challenging timescales. Clear communication, sound judgement and the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences will be key to success.

In return, you’ll benefit from flexible working arrangements, generous civil service pension and leave entitlements, and the opportunity to work alongside leading experts across government, industry and academia on one of the defining infrastructure challenges of our time.

We have a critical purpose to strengthen climate resilience across Great Britain’s energy networks, ensuring that transmission and distribution systems remain secure, reliable and affordable as climate risks intensify. Through this role, you will help embed resilience into regulatory frameworks and strategic planning, supporting the transition to Net Zero while safeguarding consumers and the wider economy.

Person specification

Please ensure you demonstrate clearly within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the criteria below (not more than 1250 words). In the event of receiving a large number of applications, an initial sift may take place on just the lead criteria indicated below.

Essential Criteria:

• Educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent industry experience and Professional Registration (e.g. CEng, IEng, or in the process of gaining registration)
• Relevant experience of the power sector with an understanding of resilience and/or climate adaptation, and ability to learn new areas quickly.
• Expertise in both quantitative and qualitative analysis for informing solutions and decision making.

Desirable Criteria:

• Demonstrable grasp of one of our key areas of work: policy development, economic principles, regulatory cost assessment, either through academic qualifications or previous posts
• Relevant experience in several of the following areas of Electrical Transmission & Distribution such as: system modelling, network or system operations, system design and planning, network codes, smart grids and network innovation, asset management, performance and quality of service issues.

Behaviours

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

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £47,895, OFGEM contributes £13,875 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 (eg. part-time, job-shares, term-time working, etc.). 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 (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), 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.

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].

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