Delivery Engineer

Our client is looking for a Delivery Engineer:
Our client will give you an opportunity to join a business with an envious position in a fast-growing business, and ultimately help enable more people to transition to electric vehicles. You will not just be part of the biggest change in the automotive industry for a century - you will be at the forefront of it as we shape the EV charging market in key regions.

The purpose of the Delivery Engineer role is to contribute to building a world-class high power charging business through securing grid connections in a cost-efficient way. This includes playing an interface role between contractors, manufacturers, DNOs, our client's HSSE team and it's project team.

Success is ensuring predictable readiness to commence execution and operation, developing and maintaining a strong and beneficial working relationship with all of the relevant stakeholders including the DNO/DSO’s while achieving the most efficient price setter position through obtaining grid connections at reasonable prices and in a timely manner to support the project schedule requirements

Key accountabilities:

• Play a key role in delivering the EV charge points in the UK to achieve our client's ambition
• Performance managed EPCs to deliver the sites in timely fashion and within cost
• Project managed specific projects of sites, to ensure feasibility of the sites, for both technical & commercial reasons
• Complete initial site appraisal through desktop activities & layout creation. Site visits might be required
• Ensure readiness to commence Construction and Operations through systematic readiness reviews, structured schedule delivery and action tracking / risk assessment to verify alignment with delivery objectives
• Update bp pulse’s tool to forecast delivery of the project, both in terms of delivery, cost and hardware requirement
• Establish, develop, and maintain strong working relationships with the relevant stakeholders including the DNO/DSO’s relevant to the project needs
• Alignment with established common process/legal requirement to meet the expected delivery criteria
• Management, along with the EPC contractors of suppliers/DNO providers to support the project schedule needs
• Support the risk management process
• Act as a squad lead for all our client's internal function to lead the project to success (BCM, engineers, product owners, etc)
• Support key engineering management process to maintain the roll out in an efficient and safe manner
• Coordinate legal interfaces with the project & stakeholder needs to remove blockers to successful, timely commencement of construction and operation
• Support the continuous improvement of technical practices and processes
• Comply with S&OR rules and support / advise S&OR on specific anticipated move or trends
• Alert the project managers and the and Senior manager Global Engineering on any identified risks within his / her responsibility.
• Capture Lessons Learned through engineering and installation delivery and ensure Continuous Improvement throughout our EV deployments

Education:
Excellent university degree in electrical engineering or comparable education/industry experience

Essential experience:

• A strong track record in project delivery or in supporting complex Project management
• An understanding of the standards and protocols of the industry
• An understanding of industry relevant engineering standards
• A solid understanding of the EV value chain / technologies and necessary infrastructure to support
• Clear understanding and experience in grid connections, grid access constraints and requirements and the process in achieving such
• Fluent in local language
• Clear sense of ownership and accountability

Desirable Experience

• Technical and engineering roll out in the EV field
• Project Management of similar power and hardware Projects
• 5-10 years’ experience in large scale engineering projects
• Broad professional experience in engineering and project management delivery.
• Sound knowledge of civil installations and thorough understanding of the operation and structures of charging networks and how they are integrated.
• Direct experience of industry standards in the EV space.
• Agile Project management.
• Fluent in English

V & B
Excellence
Follow and uphold the rules and standards of BP and hold others to account for doing the same thing.

One Team
Support those I work with and help to build the effectiveness of my team to achieve the best results.

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