Acoustic Opportunities - Senior or Principal Engineer for the Energy Infrastructure sector - (1627)

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Acoustic Opportunity - Senior or Principal Acoustics Engineer for the Energy Infrastructure Sector
Bristol or Nationwide
Competitive salary + benefits

About us

Hoare Lea is an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers, and technical specialists. We provide innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for all our projects.

Hoare lea's acoustic group is one of the UK's largest and longest established acoustic consultancies. Our wind farm experience stretches back to 1990, and now extends to over 250 wind farms both within the UK and abroad, acting as independent noise consultants for wind turbine manufacturers, wind farm developers, local authorities, and private individuals alike. In the ever-evolving sector of energy infrastructure and renewables, we are also called upon to support other technological developments including solar farms, battery storage, waste to energy, and grid connections. Input will begin with testing feasibility and supporting planning process, and we may then extend advice to assist with optimising design to enable maximised energy output balanced with noise control. In addition to our extensive project experience, we have a proven track record in wind-turbine-noise research and innovation. Our engineers have contributed to major guidance documents in the UK. ScottishPower Renewables (part of the Iberdrola Group) recognised this by naming Hoare Lea as a leading Corporate Social Responsibility contractor in their 2017 supplier awards.

Why work for us?

You'll collaborate with the industry's best, working with a wide range of specialists.

You'll be part of progressive and exciting projects, able to experience innovative schemes across all sectors.

You'll advance your career, your way, thanks to our structured Career Paths framework.

The Role
As our industry-leading acoustic consultancy to the energy infrastructure sector continues to expand, we are looking for someone to take on a wide variety of projects. The majority focus would be on wind farms, but would involve other growing technologies, The engineer would be involved in all aspects of projects, from early stages to completion, with activities including environmental sound surveys, calculations and EIA chapter drafting. There would be training and use of our unique suite of dedicated software tools and equipment inventory.. The role would also involve maintaining and developing contacts with key clients in the industry - much of our work comes through repeat business by delivering a high standard of work Support would be called on for preparing project scopes and fee proposals. There will be a need to be organised to manage and deliver timely and commercially successful outputs

What we are looking for

• A senior acoustics engineer with previous experience of wind farm noise assessments and other energy infrastructure projects. The candidate should have a working knowledge of all elements of a standard wind farm noise assessment: undertaking and analysing background noise surveys, noise predictions and writing up an EIA noise chapter and supporting information. Additional experience of more complex aspects of wind farm assessments (cumulative noise, compliance monitoring, feature analysis etc.) would be a bonus.
• The candidate should be willing to deliver a high standard of work and have a good eye for detail.
• Experience of other EIA-scale projects in the renewable sector or general build environment would also be considered useful but this is not a requirement of the role.
• Bachelor's degree (and possibly Masters degree or more) in relevant field and membership of institute of acoustics would be expected.

Our Benefits

To reward your hard work and commitment we offer both core and flexible benefits, a competitive salary and industry leading training and development to support you throughout your career.

Core Benefits

• Private medical scheme
• Life Assurance
• Income protection
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme (Senior Engineer)
• Travel Allowance (Principal Engineer)
• 25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 with length of service
• Contributory pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced Paternity, Maternity & Shared Parental Leave
• Season Ticket Loans
• Professional membership subscription
• Flexitime

Flexible benefits

• 9-day fortnight - the firm offers all employees the option to work a 9-day fortnight
• Hybrid Working - activity-based approach
• Employee stock purchase plan - a voluntary program which allows eligible employees to purchase Tetra Tech common stock at a 15% discount
• Holiday buy & sell up to 5 days
• Study Assistance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Referral Scheme
• Sabbatical Leave
• Other flexible benefits include gym and retail discounts, travel & dental insurance and GAYE (Give as you Earn)
• Flexible working - We're happy to discuss flexible working. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage

How to Apply

To apply simply complete a CV profile and submit your application, or for further information please contact viktoriyaleakey@hoarelea.com

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