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As a leader in the renewables energy industry, ScottishPower Renewables have ambitious plans for growth. You can expect to see expansion of our existing onshore and offshore wind portfolio, investment in new large-scale solar deployment, pioneering floating wind technologies and innovative grid storage systems including batteries. This will be key to enabling the UK’s green energy transition, and we want you to be a part of it.
What you’ll be doing
As an Engineer within ScottishPower Renewables, you could play a key role in the planning, design, construction and operation of some of the largest onshore and offshore windfarms in the world. We have a variety of projects at various stages of the project lifecycle which creates extraordinary opportunities for our graduates. A rapidly growing business, we have a variety of roles for our graduates, depending on their area of interest. Whether you have an engineering background and are fascinated with the technical aspects of planning, development and design, or would prefer to use your engineering expertise in project management, analysis or risk management, you can play a crucial part in helping us achieve our Net Zero goals.
With an unprecedented number of windfarms in our portfolio, you could be involved in the end-to-end process, from planning through to construction and maintenance. You might be part of the team responsible for the design of windfarms and substations, providing critical details that support decision making on project viability. Or perhaps you’d enjoy taking responsibility for coordinating technical inputs for seabed or land leasing, developing geological survey strategies and liaising with environmental impact assessment experts.
As an excellent communicator and skilled influencer, you could play a key role in reviewing tender processes for windfarm equipment such as cables, wind turbine generators or electrical equipment. Or monopiles, jackets and transition pieces for our offshore turbines. Engaging with a wide range of suppliers, it’s vital that our partners share our high standards and values on sustainability, so you might be conducting visits to factories and test sites across the world. And of course this presents you with the enviable opportunity to gain an insight into emerging technologies that will potentially transform our industry.
If you’re interested in risk management, you’ll have the opportunity to positively impact design decisions across the project value chain, from wind turbine rotor right through to the eventual offtake of our GW scale electrons! As part of the operation and maintenance team you could take a leading role in the collation and analysis of data to ensure our UK wide maintenance strategy continues to meet our ever-changing needs. Whichever path you take, you’ll learn key skills to really kick start your renewables career and play your part in the fight against climate change.
As part of Iberdrola, we’re one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and world leader in wind energy. Our Renewables Engineering Graduates will be part of a global graduate programme, giving you the unique opportunity to undertake a placement in one of our Iberdrola locations! You could spend several months in Iberdrola in Spain, Avangrid in the USA, or one of our other Iberdrola group locations. What better way to kick start your career in clean energy than gaining experiences and building networks of colleagues from around the world?
Entry Requirements
Honours Degree (or equivalent) at a minimum of 2:2 in Electrical / Mechanical / Civil / Energy / Power Engineering, Instrumentation & Control, Health and Safety, Quality Management or similar
