Power-to-X Engineer

Power-to-X Engineer with Galetech Energy Developments

part of Galetech Group

Are you ready to embark on the most exciting phase of your career?

Galetech Group is a specialist renewable energy consultancy that provides planning, environmental and advisory support to our clients on a wide range of wind and renewable energy projects. We are Irish owned and our team includes over 130 people. We are market leading specialists in the development of renewable energy projects in Ireland, Africa and across Europe. To date we have delivered over 300MW of wind capacity, and we currently have 680MW of onshore, 2GW of offshore in addition to 300MW of energy storage in our development pipeline and we are showing no signs of slowing down. 

We are looking for a Power-to-X Engineer to join our ever growing team. This is an exciting role and is perfect for anyone who is passionate about making our energy transition happen. Power-to-X is essential in achieving a carbon neutral society that meets an increasing demand for energy.

If this sounds like you, you should apply:

• You thrive in an atmosphere of discovery

• You are motivated by the need to identify key enablers for the energy transition

What you will do:

• Carry out design development activities for Power-to-X projects, particularly hydrogen and ammonia projects. Activities include Technical Requirements, Technology Assessments, Optioneering, Site Feasibility, Hazard Studies, Concept Design

• Support the development of Techno-Economic studies and Business Opportunity Reports to initiate new project development

• Produce technical insight reports for Business Development

• Manage knowledge related to low carbon technologies and communicate to appropriate internal stakeholders

• Model key technology components, e.g electrolysers and compressors (techno-economic models)

• Manage key business intelligence parameters such as national renewables targets, commodity prices and technology specific parameters

What we are looking for:

• A candidate who has experience in the energy sector or relevant industry in an engineering role with an appreciation of the opportunities/challenges of achieving the Net Zero objective.

• Someone with technical knowledge of MW scale wind turbines and/or solar parks.

• A person with the ability to apply relevant development & design principles to projects to ensure technical requirements are well defined and achieved to meet the business case.

• Someone comfortable exploring  new opportunities and identifying key differentiators that can add value to a project.

• Excellent proficiency in Microsoft Excel

• An engineer who is flexible and open-minded and possess a good sense of humour and enjoys the social work environment.

• English language proficiency is important as the Engineer will be tasked with composing complex technical reports and documentation.

In addition to this, it would make us very excited if you had experience with any (or all) of the topics below:

• Chemical synthesis plants (Methanol, Ammonia, SAF)

• Pyrolysis, Hydrothermal Liquefaction, or similar processes

• Anaerobic Digestion

• Energy systems

• Energy export