Senior Engineer

Job summary

Ofgem is Great Britain’s 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 Engineering Hub within the Engineering & Technology directorate. This is your chance to play a key role in shaping the UK’s energy future as we transition to a net-zero system.

You’ll provide expert engineering and policy support across Ofgem, working on critical areas such as network price controls, regulation of networks, industry codes, innovation projects, and the low-carbon transition. Your work will help ensure Ofgem has the technical capability to deliver its regulatory responsibilities effectively.

In this role, you will lead high-quality engineering analysis and provide clear recommendations to policy teams. You’ll take ownership of technical policy areas managed by the Engineering Hub, including network codes, and support delivery of electricity price controls such as reopeners or RIIO-3 and wider network regulation.

You’ll engage with network companies to explore smarter ways of developing networks, including smart grid technologies, and contribute to innovation projects while assessing technical aspects of code changes or derogations. Representing Ofgem externally at meetings, conferences, and events will be a key part of your role, as well as drafting public documents and presenting recommendations to senior management.

This role offers variety, challenge, and the chance to influence how we deliver engineering solutions that shape the UK’s energy future. You’ll work closely with internal teams and external stakeholders, including licensees, NESO, DESNZ, UKRI, and HSE.

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

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for high quality and timely engineering analysis of options and recommendations to policy teams.

• Lead on policy areas directly managed by the Engineer Hub, such as technical codes.

Key Outputs and Deliverables

• Providing support in the delivery of the electricity price controls such as reopeners or RIIO3 and network regulation more generally

• Engaging with the network companies to find better ways of developing our networks – e.g., the deployment of smart grid technologies

• Providing support in the delivery of our network innovation competitions

• Providing the technical support necessary to consider and decide on changes to or derogations from network codes

• Assisting in the development of key areas of transmission and distribution policy

• Lead the delivery of key work streams and potentially manage staff input into the relevant areas of work

• Present policy and recommendations to senior management

• Act as a representative for Ofgem at external meetings, conferences and events explaining Ofgem’s position on particular issues

• Taking responsibility for drafting public documents or parts of documents.

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 or equivalent industry experience, and Chartered Engineer (or working towards registration)

• Relevant experience in one or several of the following areas: Gas or Electricity Transmission or Distribution, network or system operations, system design and planning, network codes, smart grids and network innovation, asset management, performance and quality of service issues.

• Expertise in both quantitative and qualitative analysis, with good report drafting skills

• Ability to deliver key projects to challenging timescales

• Familiarity with key concepts of economic regulation

• Excellent communication/interpersonal skills including the ability to explain technical issues to non-technical people.

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

• Project Management experience and skills.

Qualifications

Educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent industry experience, and Chartered Engineer (or working towards registration)

Benefits

Alongside your salary 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. 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.

Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 26th January 2026