Careers
Life at SgurrEnergy
How our teams collaborate, learn and work day to day.
Life at SgurrEnergy centres on collaborative, multidisciplinary teams that combine resource, grid, design, due diligence, environmental and asset performance specialists on shared mandates. The culture emphasises technical mentoring, continuous learning, peer review and clear ways of working across distributed, international project teams. It is a professional, evidence-driven environment focused on doing rigorous, independent engineering well.
How We Work Together
The day-to-day patterns that define the culture.
Multidisciplinary by default
Mandates pull together the specialists they need, so engineers routinely work alongside colleagues from other disciplines rather than in isolation.
Peer review as standard
Technical deliverables are checked and challenged by peers before they reach a client, which protects quality and spreads knowledge across the team.
Evidence over opinion
Positions are argued from data, standards and analysis. Being able to show your reasoning matters more than seniority in a technical debate.
Distributed collaboration
International projects mean working across offices and time zones, supported by clear documentation and a habit of writing things down.
Client-facing engineers
Technical staff explain and defend their work directly to clients, which keeps the engineering grounded in the decisions it serves.
Learning and Development
Renewable energy is a fast-moving field, so staying current is part of the job rather than an extra. Much of the development at SgurrEnergy happens through the work itself: exposure to varied technologies, markets and lifecycle stages, supported by experienced colleagues who review deliverables and talk through the reasoning behind them.
Mentoring matters here. Newer engineers learn how a bankable assessment is built, how a grid study holds up to scrutiny or how a due-diligence finding should be framed by working closely with people who have done it many times. Many disciplines also align with recognised professional bodies and chartership pathways, and we encourage engineers to pursue and maintain relevant professional accreditation as their careers progress.
Because the specifics of structured programmes, support and progression vary by discipline, region and role, we discuss them openly during the hiring conversation so you know what to expect.
Ways of Working We Value
Behaviours that tend to thrive in our teams.
- Clear, honest technical communication, including saying when something does not add up.
- Care with documentation, so that analysis is traceable and can be relied on later.
- Willingness to ask for and offer review, treating feedback as a normal part of good work.
- Collaboration across disciplines and offices, with respect for colleagues' expertise.
- Ownership of quality, from first assumption through to the final deliverable.
Frequently Asked Questions
Working arrangements vary by role, team and location, and some work, such as site supervision and inspections, is inherently location-based. We discuss the specific arrangement for a role during the hiring process rather than stating a single firm-wide policy here.
Teams are organised around disciplines such as resource and yield, grid and power systems, engineering design, due diligence, environmental and social advisory, inspections and asset performance, and they combine into multidisciplinary project teams as each mandate requires.
Development happens largely through varied project work and mentoring from experienced colleagues, alongside encouragement to pursue relevant professional accreditation and chartership. The specifics depend on discipline and region and are discussed during hiring.
It is collaborative and evidence-driven, and people from adjacent engineering or analytical backgrounds are supported in learning the renewable energy context through mentoring and peer review. Strong fundamentals and a willingness to learn travel well.
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