# Senior Specialist Engineer - Electrical

**Company**: OFGEM
**Location**: Cardiff, Wales
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 63,443 - 86,547 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

Exceptional engineering is what keeps Britain’s energy networks functioning day after day, year after year. Ofgem is now looking for Senior Specialist Engineers to bring their expertise to the decisions that keep electricity flowing reliably, ensuring our networks deliver for consumers today and into the future.

Ofgem is Great Britain’s independent energy regulator. We’re at the forefront of change across the energy sector, driving toward Net Zero whilst protecting energy consumers – especially vulnerable people.

You’ll have the chance to apply your specialist knowledge to support investment in the energy system, ensuring infrastructure delivers value for consumers and supports the country’s long-term energy needs. You’ll be recognised as a trusted engineering expert, advising and challenging decision-making at every level of Ofgem, informing important regulatory decisions, and influencing thinking.

**Job Description**

We’re looking for accomplished engineering professionals with extensive specialist experience relevant to electricity networks, alongside a strong understanding of network investment planning, regulatory frameworks and the commercial context of major infrastructure decisions.

You’ll bring experience of leading regulatory processes, including price controls or equivalent funding mechanisms, excellent analytical skills and a proven ability to advise and challenge senior stakeholders. The ability to communicate complex technical information clearly to different audiences will also be essential.

In return, you’ll be enabled to operate at the highest levels of energy regulation, tackling demanding engineering challenges and applying your expertise to decisions with long-term significance. You’ll have the opportunity to broaden your regulatory perspective, work alongside leading specialists and further establish your reputation as a trusted technical authority.

**Person Specification**

- Experience of working in a complex and diverse environment, acting as an internal expert – advising and challenging senior leaders on technical, engineering, strategic and/or operational performance related matters.

- Extensive experience in a specialist policy engineering role relevant to Ofgem’s work – networks, generators, pipelines, heat networks for example, specialised technical knowledge associated with designing, building and operating gas and electricity networks; Working knowledge and experience of the commercial and regulatory framework of the GB Gas & Electricity Industry;

- Extensive experience in a specialist engineering or a strategic technical role relevant to Ofgem’s work, with strong understanding of GB electricity networks, network company investment planning, regulatory frameworks and the commercial context for major energy infrastructure decisions.

- Experience of leading regulatory process including price controls or processes associated with equivalent funding mechanisms

- Excellent analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to think critically, to validate and analyse complex data, and to challenge and sense check results.

- Extensive experience of communicating complex technical information clearly and concisely to a range of audiences.

**Behaviours**

- Seeing the Big Picture

- Changing and Improving

- Making Effective Decisions

- Communicating and Influencing

**Benefits**

Alongside your salary of £63,443, OFGEM contributes £18,379 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes;

- 30 days annual leave after 2 years;

- Excellent training and development opportunities;

- The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits;

- Hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but this is kept under review),

- Flexible working hours and family friendly policies.

**Things you need to know**

- Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience.

- Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.

- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

## Skills

### Required
- electrical engineering
- regulatory frameworks
- network investment planning
- analytical skills
- communication skills

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