Senior Energy Performance Engineer

Vital Energi; Blackburn; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Vital Energi is seeking a Senior Energy Performance Engineer for our Solutions team at the Head Office in Blackburn. You will drive energy performance improvements across existing and new projects, using Django?

(note: corrected to Digital Twin) digital twins, data analytics and ML to optimise generation, distribution and control systems. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop costed improvement proposals, support bid submissions, and ensure projects meet performance

Qualifications

• Degree/HND/HNC in engineering.
• Experience with energy generation/distribution/HVAC in large installations.
• Knowledge of carbon reduction tech and hydronic optimisation (Hysopt).
• Proficient with Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with customers and sites to survey energy generation systems (power/heating/cooling) and assess operations.
• Create a Digital Twin using hydronic optimisation tools such as Hysopt and IES.
• Analyse site data and outputs with Power BI to identify optimisation opportunities.
• Apply machine learning techniques to extract insights and improve performance.
• Develop technical reports and feed lessons learnt into design specifications.
• Collaborate with O&M, ECS and commissioning teams to gather site information as required.
• Produce conceptual ideas and works specifications for optimisation works for Development Engineering and other teams.
• Support cost-benefit analysis for commercial evaluations and manage opportunity pipelines.

Skills

Energy performance

Data analysis

Digital Twin

Power BI

Machine Learning

Education

Engineering degree/HND/HNC

Tools

Hysopt

Job description

Would you like to be part of Vital Energi’s 5-year Strategy of Growth?

Vital Energi are excited to announce that we’re looking for an experienced and driven Senior Energy Performance Engineer to join our Solutions team, at our Head Office, Blackburn.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in enhancing the performance of both existing and new energy projects, ensuring that complex energy generation, distribution and control systems achieve maximum efficiency and value. Working across multidisciplinary teams, you will combine technical expertise, analytical thinking and commercial awareness to identify optimisation opportunities, influence future designs and contribute to the delivery of industry-leading energy performance outcomes for our clients.

The Role

• Liaise with customers and attend customer sites to undertake in-depth surveys of the energy generation systems (power/heating/cooling), HVAC equipment and associated energy distribution infrastructures in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the system equipment and system operation.
• Reviewing and analysing data collected on site, by creating a Digital Twin using state of the art hydronic optimisation tools e.g. Hysopt, IES, etc.
• Taking a data led approach to gain insights from Digital Twin outputs and site operational data using tools such as Power BI
• Leveraging the vast amount of data collected by various systems using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques
• Develop technical reports on specific issues identified, particularly if common to multiple projects, to feedback to design development teams as lessons learnt to build into design specifications / strategies to avoid future issues occurring.
• Liaise with the Operations and Maintenance (O&M), Energy Control Systems (ECS) and Commissioning Teams for the purposes of gathering site specific information where required
• Produce conceptual ideas, designs and works specifications for the required optimisation works to be further developed by Development Engineering, ECM, BMS and other design / development teams within Vital Energi.
• Develop detailed business cases and liaise with the Head of Design Optimisation to provide cost benefit analysis for commercial evaluation of potential improvement works and manage associated opportunities pipeline.
• Technical review of optimisation works proposals once received.
• Support Head of Design Optimisation in developing and writing formal proposals and bid submissions, including writing technical descriptions of works and modes of operations of equipment.
• Collaborate with the company’s engineering design teams and project construction teams to ensure optimisation projects are designed and constructed to deliver the company’s obligations in respect of any performance obligations.
• Provide guidance to relevant teams (such as Subject Matter Experts) to develop and regularly update robust specification templates for key plant and equipment to ensure the most suitable equipment available is specified / procured, including required information / data to model performance.

Skills & Experience

Qualifications

• Qualified to Degree / HND / HNC level in an engineering discipline
• Knowledge of the following is essential:
  • energy generation/distribution/HVAC systems within large public sector and private sector installations
  • carbon reduction systems/technologies
  • hydraulic/hydronic optimisation, including software such as Hysopt
• Computer literate with working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite

Applicants must have the unrestricted and ongoing right to work in the UK for the duration of employment, without the need for sponsorship. Due to the nature of this role, we are unable to support visa sponsorship or employ individuals with time‑limited permission or conditions attached to their right to work in the UK

The company is opposed to all forms of discrimination and will select for employment, training and promotion on the basis of suitability for the job and/ or merit. It is company policy that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of sex, race, colour, age, ethnic or national origins, political affiliations, religious beliefs, marital status, physical disability or is disadvantaged by unjustifiable conditions or requirements.