BESS Technical Asset Manager

City, London
Astute People

Astute’s Renewables Team is exclusively partnering with a leading climate-focused real assets investor in the battery storage sector to recruit a BESS Technical Asset Manager for its London office.

The BESS Technical Asset Manager role comes with a competitive salary up to 80,000, private healthcare, life assurance, and the opportunity to gain direct exposure to one of the UK’s leading battery energy storage portfolios.

If you’re an Asset Manager with strong technical and operational experience and are looking to play a key role in the UK’s energy transition, then submit your CV to apply today.

Responsibilities and Duties:

Reporting to the Lead Technical Asset Manager, you will:

• Be accountable for the performance and uptime of a portfolio of utility-scale battery storage assets
• Ensure assets operate in line with all contractual, regulatory, environmental, and safety requirements
• Oversee third-party O&M contractors, ensuring maintenance activities and service delivery meet agreed standards
• Coordinate external suppliers and support wider technical projects across the portfolio
• Analyse operational data to identify performance trends and drive improvements in asset efficiency and reliability
• Use monitoring platforms such as SCADA and market data systems to track and report on asset performance
• Provide hands-on technical input where required, including site visits and engagement with external technical advisors
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to maximise portfolio performance and support continuous improvement initiative

Professional qualifications

We are looking for someone with the following:

• Around 4-6 years’ experience within the energy sector, ideally across renewables, utilities, or power generation
• A background in managing or supporting operational battery energy storage assets, with exposure to performance and maintenance activities
• Experience overseeing service providers and working with operational or maintenance-related contracts
• Strong analytical capability, with the ability to interpret data and translate findings into actionable insights
• A degree or relevant background in engineering, science, or another numerically focused discipline is advantageous
• Familiarity with asset monitoring and Programming tools (e.g. SCADA, Python, SQL or similar)

Personal skills

We are looking for someone with the following:

• Highly analytical with strong attention to detail
• Proactive, accountable, and solutions-driven
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced and evolving market
• A strong communicator, able to engage with a broad range of stakeholders
• Collaborative and confident in cross-functional environments
• Motivated by contributing to the energy transition

Salary and benefits of the BESS Technical Asset Manager role

• Salary up to 80k depending on experience
• London based office (Mon-Thur with Fridays flexible)
• Pension Scheme
• Discretionary Performance related Bonus
• Private Healthcare
• Life Assurance
• 25 days Holiday plus Bank Holidays

INDREN

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