Senior Electrical Engineer - Climate Resilience

At the forefront of the fight to safeguard Britain’s energy infrastructure against climate change and extreme weather, Ofgem is strengthening the resilience of the systems that power our homes, businesses and communities. We’re looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer – Climate Resilience to join us and help shape the technical and regulatory foundations of a secure, low‑carbon energy system fit for 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.

With an excellent benefits package and opportunities for flexible and hybrid working, we’re offering a permanent opportunity within our Infrastructure – Engineering & Technology Directorate, positioned at the heart of our Climate Resilience programme. This is a unique chance to combine your engineering expertise with policy influence, ensuring that climate adaptation and resilience are embedded into the regulation of energy networks.

Working closely with our Climate Resilience team, you’ll provide expert technical insight that informs regulatory and strategic decision‑making. You’ll engage with senior leaders, government, industry and academia, contributing to high‑profile work streams that influence the direction of national resilience planning.

You’ll operate across engineering and policy boundaries, applying robust analysis to support regulatory choices and strategic priorities. From shaping thinking on transmission and distribution resilience to contributing to wider climate adaptation cycles and research, your expertise will help ensure that resilience measures are effective, proportionate and grounded in sound engineering judgement.

We’re looking for someone with a strong engineering background in the power sector, with a decent grasp of resilience or climate adaptation. You’ll bring professional registration (or be working towards it), strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, and the ability to deliver complex work to challenging timescales. Clear communication, sound judgement and the ability to influence both technical and non‑technical audiences will be key to success.

In return, you’ll benefit from flexible working arrangements, generous civil service pension and leave entitlements, and the opportunity to work alongside leading experts across government, industry and academia on one of the defining infrastructure challenges of our time.

We have a critical purpose to strengthen climate resilience across Great Britain’s energy networks, ensuring that transmission and distribution systems remain secure, reliable and affordable as climate risks intensify. Through this role, you will help embed resilience into regulatory frameworks and strategic planning, supporting the transition to Net Zero while safeguarding consumers and the wider economy.

Please ensure you demonstrate clearly within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the criteria below (not more than 1250 words). In the event of receiving a large number of applications, an initial sift may take place on just the lead criteria indicated below.

• Educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent industry experience and Professional Registration (e.g. CEng, IEng, or in the process of gaining registration)
• Relevant experience of the power sector with an understanding of resilience and/or climate adaptation, and ability to learn new areas quickly.
• Expertise in both quantitative and qualitative analysis for informing solutions and decision making.
• Ability to deliver key projects to challenging timescales
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including explaining complex technical issues to non-technical people, in both oral presentation and written forms, and influencing others to make timely outputs.
• Demonstrable grasp of one of our key areas of work: policy development, economic principles, regulatory cost assessment, either through academic qualifications or previous posts
• Relevant experience in several of the following areas of Electrical Transmission &…