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 Delivery and Schemes directorate within Audit & Compliance. This is your chance to play a key role in supporting the delivery of renewable electricity schemes.
You’ll provide expert engineering and technical support across Ofgem, contributing to renewable electricity schemes through accreditation, compliance and audit processes. Your work will support robust, evidence-based decision-making and ensure schemes are delivered in line with their rules and obligations.
In this role, you will provide high-quality and timely engineering advice on participant applications, amendments to accreditation, and compliance investigations. You will contribute engineering expertise to the development and reform of renewable electricity schemes and associated policy.
You’ll work with internal teams to translate technical engineering concepts into clear, practical advice for non-technical audiences, supporting decision-making across operations, compliance and policy. You will also design and deliver technical training to large and diverse audiences, building understanding of engineering requirements relevant to scheme delivery.
Maintaining professional development will be important in this role, including staying up to date with changes to technical standards and advancements in renewable electricity technology impacting scheme delivery.
You’ll engage with external stakeholders, including government departments, industry bodies and scheme participants, and represent Ofgem at meetings, conferences and events, clearly communicating technical positions.
This role offers the opportunity to apply your engineering expertise to support the effective delivery of renewable electricity schemes and contribute to positive outcomes for consumers.
Join us and help shape the future of energy in the UK.
Job overview
You will be someone who:
- Is educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline or has equivalent industry experience.
- Has experience applying engineering expertise in an advisory or analytical capacity, particularly where complex electricity-related issues need to be interpreted and explained to others.
- Is able to translate technical engineering concepts into clear, practical advice for non-technical audiences, supporting decision-making across operations, compliance or policy.
- Has strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build understanding and confidence in engineering decisions across a wide range of stakeholders.
- Enjoys using engineering knowledge to support others and influence decisions.
- Has an interest in the energy sector and is motivated by achieving positive outcomes for consumers, supporting Ofgem’s role in delivering a fair, sustainable and secure net zero energy system.
- Contributes to a positive and inclusive working environment, valuing diversity of thought, experience and background while supporting colleagues to deliver high-quality outcomes.
Delivery and Schemes (D&S)
Ofgem delivers renewable energy schemes and social programmes on behalf of government – this is done through the Delivery and Schemes Directorate (D&S). These schemes are varied – covering renewable heat, renewable electricity, energy efficiency and fuel poverty – collectively, they are worth £12bn a year. And crucially, these schemes are critical to hitting our Net Zero goals and providing support for households.
Through our efforts, we ensure that both consumers and participants receive the necessary support without imposing undue costs on consumers and taxpayers. A crucial element of this is guaranteeing that payments made under government schemes are accessible to participating generators and installations that meet and continue to adhere to the rules and obligations of these schemes.
The successful candidate will be deployed to support work in our Renewable Electricity Participant Compliance team (REPC) and Renewable Electricity Operations team.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for providing high quality and timely engineering advice on Participant applications for (and amendments to) accreditation and compliance investigations under the Renewable Electricity schemes.
- Delivering training across D&S to large and diverse non-technical audiences, focused on engineering requirements relevant to renewable electricity scheme delivery (operations and compliance).
- Maintaining professional development, staying abreast of changes to technical standards and advancements in renewable electricity technology impacting scheme delivery.
Key Outputs and Deliverables
- Provide technical expertise to support accreditation, audit, and compliance processes and decisions, ensuring outcomes are robust, evidence-based, and defensible.
- Contribute engineering expertise to the development and reform of renewable electricity schemes and associated policy.
- Design and deliver technical training to large and diverse non-technical audiences, building understanding of engineering requirements across D&S.
- Represent Ofgem at external meetings, conferences and events, clearly communicating Ofgem’s position on relevant technical issues.
Key Stakeholder Relationships
Internal
- Workstream and Portfolio Managers
- Audit & Compliance Team Managers
- Operations Team Managers
- Professional Development Leads
- HR
- Legal and policy teams
External
- Other Government Departments including but not limited to DESNZ, GIAA and NAO
- Scheme participants.
- Industry bodies including, but not limited to, Energy UK, Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS), certification bodies.
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 1,250 words).
Essential Criteria
- Educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline (electrical, environmental, renewable or similar) or equivalent industry experience
- Relevant experience in electricity generation or wider power systems (e.g. commissioning, transmission, distribution or renewable energy) with the ability to apply this knowledge to renewable electricity schemes
- Expertise in both quantitative and qualitative analysis
- Proven track record of delivering complex engineering projects to challenging timescales
- Excellent communication/interpersonal skills including the ability to explain technical issues to non-technical audiences.
Desirable Criteria
- Chartered Engineer (holds the qualifications to progress towards gaining registration)
- Experience of Renewable Energy generation and battery storage
- Knowledge of government’s renewable electricity schemes including the Renewables Obligation.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Delivering at Pace
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £49,452, OFGEM contributes £14,326 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.
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 1,250 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. In the event of receiving a large number of applications, an initial sift may take place on just the lead criteria indicated in the essential criteria.
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].
At Ofgem, we expect our staff to carry out their roles with honesty, fairness and openness. They should follow the Civil Service code and be free from any influence or bias. We are committed to making sure interests are recognised, declared and managed appropriately so that we can fulfil our duties as an energy regulator.
Our Conflicts of Interest policy outlines the types of interests Ofgem staff must declare before onboarding, and the rules they must follow throughout employment so that we can clearly demonstrate that our decisions are not influenced by private interests.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window).
Working for the Civil Service
Please note this Post is not regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
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Further information
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If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission, please visit their website.
Attachments
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