Head of Engineering - Renewables

Plenitude; Île-de-France; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Plenitude seeks a Head of Engineering in Paris to lead the engineering function for renewable energy projects, including PV, wind, and BESS. You will set priorities, guide the team, and ensure safe, compliant, and timely delivery across the portfolio.

The role requires an engineering degree and proven leadership in large-scale projects, with strong knowledge of French regulations and international standards. Fluency in French and English is essential; Italian is a plus.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree required with extensive renewable energy experience (PV, wind, BESS).
• Strong leadership and communication skills are essential.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams and managing external partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Engineering team, setting priorities, allocating resources, and ensuring timely delivery across the project portfolio.
• Provide technical leadership and governance across development, construction, commissioning, and operations of PV, wind, and BESS projects.
• Review and arbitrate technical solutions and project assumptions to ensure robustness, cost-efficiency, and alignment with business objectives.
• Coordinate external engineering consultants, advisers, and contractors to meet schedules, budgets, and quality standards.
• Define and maintain technical standards, procedures, and best practices for the French organisation and comply with regulations and grid requirements.
• Ensure alignment with Group/HQ Engineering while adapting to French market and regulatory needs.
• Support key milestones (RTB, tendering, FID, construction, commissioning) with technical recommendations and documented decisions.
• Drive continuous improvement and standardisation across the portfolio using lessons learned.

Skills

Leadership

PV

Wind

BESS

Electrical systems

Grid connections

Civil works

Permitting

Construction

Team management

Consultants management

EPC contractors

Equipment suppliers

French regulations

Multicultural environment

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Job Description

Job title

HEAD OF ENGINEERING

Location

Paris, France

Job reference #

33958

Contract type

Permanent

Language requirements

French (native or C2) and English (B2). Italian would be an advantage.

About Plenitude

Plenitude is an energy company that integrates the retail business and renewable generation with self-consumption and electric mobility solutions, providing energy and gas to more than 10 million homes and businesses across Europe, which offers a range of great professional opportunities for the whole team. This partnership represents a major European project integrating the renewable energy business with the retail business, which will enable us to progressively increase our offering of services, infrastructure, and green energy for our customers, providing our team with greater visibility and professional growth.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Engineering team, setting priorities, allocating resources, and ensuring the quality and timely delivery of engineering activities across the project portfolio.
• Provide technical leadership and governance across the development, construction, commissioning, and operational phases of PV, wind, and BESS projects.
• Review, challenge, and arbitrate technical solutions and project assumptions, ensuring projects are technically robust, optimised, cost-effective, and aligned with business objectives.
• Coordinate and oversee external engineering consultants, technical advisers, and contractors, ensuring compliance with project requirements, schedules, budgets, and quality standards.
• Define and maintain technical standards, procedures, and best practices for the French organisation, ensuring compliance with French regulations, grid requirements, and Group standards.
• Ensure alignment with Group/HQ Engineering while adapting technical approaches and standards to French market and regulatory requirements.
• Support key project milestones, including RTB, tendering, FID, construction, and commissioning, by providing technical recommendations and ensuring major technical decisions are properly assessed and documented.
• Drive continuous improvement and standardisation across the project portfolio, leveraging lessons learned and promoting efficient, consistent, and high-quality engineering practices.

Skills And Experience Required

• Engineering degree with extensive experience in renewable energy, including significant experience in utility-scale solar PV, wind and BESS projects.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams.
• Strong technical understanding of PV, BESS and wind projects, including electrical systems, grid connections, civil works, permitting and construction.
• Strong ability to challenge technical proposals, arbitrate between alternatives, and make pragmatic, business-oriented decisions.
• Experience managing engineering consultants, technical advisers, EPC contractors and equipment suppliers.
• Good knowledge of French technical regulations and applicable international standards.
• Ability to operate effectively in a multicultural and international environment.
• Fluency in French and English is mandatory. Italian would be an advantage.

About Eni

Eni is a global energy company operating in 61 Countries, with over 30,000 employees. Originally an oil & gas company, it has evolved into an integrated energy company, playing a key role in ensuring energy security and leading the energy transition. Eni's goal is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 through the decarbonization of its processes and of the products it sells to its customers. In line with this goal, Eni invests in the research and development of technologies that can accelerate the transition to increasingly sustainable energy. Renewable energy sources, bio-refining, carbon capture and storage are only some examples of Eni's areas of activity and research. In addition, the company is exploring game‑changing technologies such as fusion energy – a technology based on the physical processes that power stars and that could generate safe, virtually limitless energy with zero emissions.

Working at Eni

At Eni we believe in enterprising people, capable of making a difference and making their contribution with passion and innovation, to respond to the global challenges of the energy transition. For us, the skills and attitudes of each individual, continuous training, and diversity and inclusion are fundamental. We promote flexible ways of working with particular attention to well‑being, welfare and work life‑balance. Eni will evaluate applications considering plurality and diversity as sources of enrichment. If your application is assessed to be among those most in line with the required profile, you will be contacted to continue the selection process. Whatever your ambition, at Eni you can find the tools to make it happen.

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