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Compliance Engineer
Job Description
Are you ready to help shape a smarter, greener energy system by ensuring our renewable projects connect safely and reliably to the UK grid? At EDF Power Solutions, your expertise in grid engineering will support our growing portfolio and directly contribute to Britain’s journey to net zero.
The Opportunity
As a Grid Compliance Engineer, you will play a central role in delivering safe, reliable, and compliant grid connections across our renewable energy projects. You’ll help achieve our ambition to expand our operational and development portfolio while upholding the highest standards of engineering excellence. This involves maintaining your competency in both distribution and transmission connection requirements.
In this role, you will:
- Work across a diverse range of renewable energy technologies -Support compliance-related activities throughout a project’s lifecycle -Collaborate with internal and external teams including industry partners and technical organisations
This position offers flexibility to be based in London, Durham, or Edinburgh, with the ability to travel across the UK as required to support projects and teams.
Who You Are
We’re looking for a Grid Compliance Engineer who is proactive, solution-focused, and committed to delivering high-quality engineering outcomes.
To be shortlisted, you’ll need to demonstrate:
- Experience as a transmission or distribution UK grid compliance engineer
- A track record of successfully managing grid compliance processes for transmission or distribution-connected assets
- An engineering background in electrical or power systems
- Understanding of power system risks, health and safety, and environmental requirements
- A full UK driving licence
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What You’ll Be Doing
- Managing compliance interfaces with the National Energy System Operator (NESO), Transmission Owner (TO), and Distribution Network Operator (DNO) throughout the project lifecycle.
- Supporting grid engineers in assessing transmission and distribution connection offers to ensure compliance and conformance.
- Overseeing UK/Irish grid code compliance processes, including obligations under the Balancing and Settlement Code for projects across different technologies.
- Conducting power system studies and reviews, identifying and resolving issues to maintain programme milestones.
- Acting as the compliance Subject Matter Expert (SME) on assigned projects to ensure compliance matters are integrated into timelines.
- Ensuring operational assets remain compliant with code obligations post-installation.
- Producing regular project reports and escalating compliance-related issues.
- Maintaining expertise in transmission and distribution compliance.
- Attending industry forums, seminars, and meetings to stay updated with grid code developments while fostering relationships with stakeholders.
- Embedding best practices including lessons learned and operational experience into engineering activities.
Pay, Benefits, and Culture
If you’re eager to join a company where hard work, passion, and fun balance out to transform the energy system—and help the UK reach net zero—then this role is perfect for you.
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In addition to a competitive salary and bonus potential, you’ll benefit from:
- A market-leading pension scheme
- Flexible benefits, tailored to your lifestyle (e.g., electric vehicle leasing, private healthcare, extra holiday)
- Positions within a welcoming, inclusive, and diverse organisation—we foster gender balance, social mobility, and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities, and disability confidence. As a Disability Confident employer, we’ll collaboratively adjust requirements during the hiring process.
Why EDF Power Solutions?
We collaborate toward a shared ambition—tackling climate change and enabling a net zero future. Our team of diverse professionals grows unstoppably through innovation and commitment to producing clean, green energy.
Our scope covers onshore and offshore wind, solar, battery storage, and green hydrogen. By 2035, our goal is to deliver 10GW of low-carbon energy—we’re here to make this vision a reality, and we’d love for you to be part of the journey.
Join us, energise your career, and accelerate a net zero future. Let’s do good together.
Join us, and let’s do good together.
Additional Information:
- Shift work: No
- Career area: Renewables
- Primary contractual location: Alexander House
- Term of employment: Permanent
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