Head of Electrification

The Head of Electrification will lead the strategic development, delivery, and growth of electrification initiatives across the business, with a strong focus on integrating battery storage, solar, and wind technologies into construction and infrastructure projects. This role will play a pivotal part in driving the transition towards sustainable energy solutions, ensuring projects are commercially viable, technically robust, and aligned with client and regulatory expectations.

• Support bid teams with technical input, cost modelling, and project proposals.
• Oversee the design, planning, and delivery of electrification projects, ensuring technical excellence, compliance, and best practice.
• Lead business development initiatives in electrification markets, securing new opportunities across battery, solar, and wind projects.
• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing electrification team.
• Act as subject matter expert for battery storage, solar PV, and on/offshore wind technologies.
• Drive integration of renewable energy systems into construction and infrastructure project risk assessments.
• Define and lead the company’s electrification strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate sustainability, net-zero, and growth objectives.
• Identify and evaluate emerging trends, innovations, and regulatory changes in the renewable energy and storage markets.
• Collaborate with operational, commercial, and project teams to embed electrification expertise across the business.
• Build partnerships with utilities, developers, technology providers, and regulators.
• Provide technical direction to internal engineering teams and external consultants/partners.

• Governance arrangements – the ability to establish and maintain governance structures that define clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities for governance and delivery of change initiatives and align with organisational practice.
• Consolidated planning – the ability to consolidate and document the fundamental components of a change initiative: scope; schedule; resource requirements; budgets; risks; opportunities and issues; and quality requirements.
• Team management – the ability to develop and manage teams.
• Conflict management – the ability to identify, address and resolve differences between individuals and/or interest groups.
• Leadership – the ability to empower and inspire others to deliver successful change initiatives.
• Clients, stakeholders, and communications management – the ability to manage stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests.
• Risk, opportunity, and issue management – the ability to identify and monitor risks (threats and opportunities), to plan and implement responses to those risks, and respond to other issues that affect the change initiative.
• Reviews – the ability to establish and manage reviews at appropriate points, during and after change initiatives, which will inform governance of the change initiatives, by providing evaluations of progress, methodologies, and continuing relevance.