Head of Engineering - Renewables

Plenitude; Levallois-Perret; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Eni Plenitude Renewables France seeks a Head of Engineering to lead the engineering team and govern the French renewable portfolio. Reporting to the Head of Projects and Construction, the Head of Engineering will lead the engineering team and be responsible for the technical governance of the French renewable energy portfolio.

Reporting to the Head of Projects and Construction, you will drive technical governance across PV, wind, and BESS projects, coordinate with consultants and contractors,

Qualifications

• Engineering degree with extensive renewable energy experience including utility-scale PV, wind and BESS.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams and coordinating consultants.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Engineering team, setting priorities and resources.
• Provide technical leadership across PV, wind and BESS projects.
• Review and arbitrate technical solutions and project assumptions.
• Coordinate external consultants and contractors, ensuring schedules and budgets.
• Define and maintain technical standards and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Align French engineering with Group HQ standards and market requirements.
• Support milestones (RTB, tendering, FID, construction, commissioning) with technical input.
• Drive continuous improvement and standardisation across projects.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Renewable energy

PV & wind & BESS knowledge

Team leadership

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

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.

At Eni, we are looking for a Head of Engineering to join Eni Plenitude Renewables France. Reporting to the Head of Projects and Construction, the Head of Engineering will lead the Engineering team and be responsible for the technical governance of the French renewable energy portfolio.

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 and 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 decarbonisation 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.