Lead Engineering Advisor, Energy Delivery

Natural Resources Wales
Lead Engineering Advisor, Energy Delivery

Starting salary: £45,367

Contract type: Permanent

Work pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week

Interview dates: 01/05/2025

Post number: 203735

The role

You will work within the Energy Delivery Team to assist colleagues in achieving Natural Resources Wales (NRW)’s remit for renewable energy targets in Wales, applying the principles of Sustainable Management of Natural Resources (SMNR) to your work. You will act as a senior supplier for civil engineering. You may also be required to act as an executive for projects including board reporting and risk management, within strict governance procedures.

You will work with the wider business to translate regulations, standards and approved codes of practice into operational guidance. This role provides civil engineering expertise, ensuring engineering solutions are compliant with NRW design standards, in-turn influencing renewable energy developer designs and construction phase plans. You will be responsible for asset management during the operational phase of development and for advising liaison officers on compliance with operating procedures and NRW lease obilgations.

This role involves desk and site-based work on the WGWE in North & Mid Wales. You will direct other technical / engineering staff within the team, and may lead them through complex or highly technical specialist programmes of work. You will be required to work on a number of projects simultaneously and are expected to provide leadership across our project portfolio. You will report to the Energy Delivery Team Leader, in the Northeast Operations structure. This exciting and challenging role will part-resource an additional new Welsh Government service level agreement. You will be externally facing and have considerable responsibility for managing relationships with third party organisations and contractors.

As an organisation we support flexible working. You will be contracted to an NRW office within the place base / location above and a suitable hybrid working pattern will be agreed on appointment. Any regular face to face meetings or training will be planned in advance.

To make an informal enquiry about this role, please contact Dan Bown at

Interviews will be face to face (details of time and location will be shared in advance)

Successful external applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. We aim to make offers of appointment within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date.

What you will do

• Responsibility for the Asset Management of energy and commercial primary infrastructure and ensure NRW’s legal obligations within the operational leases are safely delivered.
• Responsibly manage the regional allocated budget spend authority of £100,000.
• Act as framework contract manager for contracts raised within energy development areas. Issue Early Warnings, agree Compensation Events, valuations and defects lists, sign off works on completion as per the NEC3 contract procedures.
• Lead on the delivery of the annual primary and secondary infrastructure programmes required to deliver the NRW Timber Marketing Plan within energy and commercial development areas. Ideally have proven experience in delivering a maintenance programme.
• Provide professional advice on engineering and technical issues in order to gain consistent, practical solutions and value for money in the delivery of the work.
• Produce and manage the minerals strategy for energy developments including a programme to identify strategic quarries and anticipated stockpiles under licence and their safe management under the quarry regs 1999.
• Understand and apply current legislation, rules and procedures relevant to the job.
• Encourage and develop a safety conscious culture within the team to deliver work programmes without risk to the health & safety of the team or any other individual, and to help deliver safe & clean engineering operations.
• Undertake health and safety duties and responsibilities appropriate to the post
• Be committed to Natural Resources Wales Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy, together with an understanding of how it operates within the responsibilities of the post
• Be committed to your own development through the effective use of your personal development plan (known as Sgwrs).
• Any other reasonable duties requested commensurate with the grade of this role.

Your qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills

In your application and interview you will be asked to demonstrate the following skills and experience using the STAR method.

1. Act as ‘Principal Designer’ (or) as advisor to regional client for CDM 2015.
2. Competency in ground engineering design and specialist experience of large-scale construction developments on a variety of upland ground conditions e.g. electricity cable networks, abnormal loads, quarrying, act as client for specialised work such as structural design of bridges.
3. Competent and experienced in NEC ECC forms of contract – discharge the duties of project manager under NEC ECC.
4. Experienced user of technical design packages, For example GIS, AutoCAD, AMX.
5. Specialist knowledge of drainage and water management in upland Wales to comply with Forest & Water guidance and the Water Framework Directive.
6. Competent designer of all forest infrastructure.
7. Knowledge and relevant experience in consulting and implementing environmental considerations; habitats, conservation EPS.
8. Knowledge of concrete and timber bridge construction.
9. Knowledge of mobile GPS, to be used in planning works, providing principal setting-out points and general surveying.
10. Member of professional body e.g. ICE. or be able to work towards this through agreement with the Team Leader.
11. Recognised industry standard health and safety card. ‘CSCS’ or similar.
12. Qualified or willing to achieve PRINCE 2 Practitioner within 2 years of taking up the post. Able to apply Project Management techniques including product delivery and board reporting within strict governance procedures.
13. Quarry Manager Duties; the position will ideally hold a SHE Quarry management NVQ level 4 or, with some previous experience, aim to achieve this qualification within 5 years of taking up post with support from NRW.

Welsh language level requirements

Essential: Level A1 – Entry level (able to use and understand simple, basic phrases and greetings, no conversational Welsh)

Please note if you do not meet the A1 requirement i.e., ability to understand basic phrases and ability to pronounce Welsh names correctly, then NRW offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal requirements during the course of your employment with us.

Benefits

This role will offer a range of benefits, including:

• Civil Service Pension Scheme offering employer contributions of 28.97%
• 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days
• generous leave entitlements for all your life needs
• commitment to professional development
• health and wellbeing benefits and support
• weekly wellbeing hour to use as you choose

See full details for all the employee benefits you will receive.

Please keep reading

If you think you have what it takes to do this role, but don’t necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch and we will be happy to discuss the role with you in more detail.

We’re passionate about creating a diverse workforce and positively encourage applications from under-represented communities. We embrace equality of opportunity irrespective of disability, neurodivergence, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, gender expression and gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, culture, or religion. We put the principles of human rights, equality, fairness, dignity and respect at the heart of our values .

We are committed to equal opportunities and we guarantee interviews for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

We want to attract and retain talented and highly skilled staff, so we make sure that our pay scales remain competitive. We advertise the full pay scale on our job descriptions. Appointed candidates start at the first point of the pay scale and annual increments are paid each year.

We want our staff to grow professionally and personally. From leadership development to access to further and higher education courses, our staff have opportunities to expand their knowledge on variety of topics, stay current in their field and continue to learn as their career progresses.

We are a Bilingual organisation which complies with the Welsh Language Standards . Welsh language skills are considered an asset to NRW, and we encourage and support staff to learn, develop and use their Welsh language skills.