Technical Analyst

**Description**

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Job Title

Technical Analyst (Wind & Solar)

Reporting to

Technical Manager

Location

Sydney (Melbourne and Brisbane also considered)

Hours

37.5 hours, Permanent

**About RES**:
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**RES is the world’s largest independent renewable energy company with over a 16GW portfolio and the expertise to develop, engineer, construct, finance, and operate projects around the globe and is active in a range of energy technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar, energy storage and transmission and distribution.**:
**We are driven by our vision to create a future where everyone has access to affordable zero carbon energy. We are proud of the 21 million tonnes of carbon offset each year by our global portfolio of renewable energy projects and we are proud of the people that developed and built them.**:
We embrace the values of an innovative and diverse workforce and recognize that inclusion sets everyone up for success. We are committed to maintaining an environment where everyone feels that they belong by demonstrating a culture of care and respect in what we say and what we do.

Applications are highly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability, any gender and age, and applicants from the LGBTIQ+ community.

**What we offer**:
We recognise that our people are our most important asset. We are dedicated to the personal and professional development of our employees via training and development opportunities and sponsored education. We also encourage better work-life balance through flexible working.

Some of our other benefits include a competitive bonus and parental leave entitlement, 25 days leave, financial contribution towards annual skin checks, flu vaccinations, eye care, professional trade subscriptions, wellness subscriptions, professional body membership, paid volunteer days and a charity matching scheme.

**The position**:
The Technical Analyst role is important to all our developments as the design of the project is essential to a wind and solar farm’s viability. RES has a deep knowledge base throughout Australian and Group HQ, and it is important that this knowledge is passed on to our projects to sustain our success in this market. The Technical Analyst will be mentored by both Australian and Group Technical resources to implement that knowledge through the development of the projects.

The Technical Analyst will work across numerous development projects at a variety of stages with a primary focus within the Wind, Solar, and Storage development teams, but also working with the members of the property, and commercial teams on a frequent basis to progress project objectives on a variety of technologies.

The role will have a high level of interaction with the wider RES Group Technical Services Team based in the UK, which will include interacting with the Head of the Technical Services Team on all aspects of project work to ensure compliance with internal RES systems. This will allow for unparalleled learning opportunities from highly experienced team members.

The Technical Analyst will provide technical support to the RES Australia development team in the identification, assessment, design and development of high value renewable energy development projects, with a focus on the development of large-scale wind farms, solar farms, Energy Storage Projects, and wind/solar hybrid projects.

The role will provide expert technical expertise to Development Project Managers, including the carrying out of project constraint assessments, project design, scoping of consultancy support requirements, reviewing external independent engineer reports, collating and managing site specific data and creating and maintaining databases.

The Technical Analyst will need to work across several projects and must be able to prioritise work whilst ensuring that all company procedures are followed.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Support the wind, solar, and storage development teams throughout the project development lifecycle by:

- Building and maintaining GIS (Geographic Information Systems) site selection models;
- Updating and maintaining project specific geodatabases;
- Producing detailed wind/solar/storage layout design in compliance with all project constraints;
- Producing high quality and accurate drawings using AutoCAD and ESRI ArcGIS for desktop assessments;
- quality control of wind/solar data prior to analysis
- early/late phase and simple/complex wind/solar resource assessments in all markets
- early/late phase energy yield assessments (wind and solar)
- early/late phase linear & non-linear (CFD) wind flow modelling.
- time series modelling of resource (wind and solar) for assessment of grid, and other constraints
- wind turbine layout design (wind farms), PV module layout designs (solar farms), and BESS layout designs (storage).
- technical support for Environmental Impact Assessments
- Supporting project e