Global Head of Engineering Renewable Energy Projects

About the Role

The Green Recruitment Company is seeking a Global Head of Engineering for Renewable Energy Projects. This full-time position is based in Riyadh and involves overseeing engineering and technology strategy for a growing portfolio of utility-scale renewable energy projects. The role focuses on large-scale projects across solar PV, onshore and offshore wind, battery energy storage systems (BESS), and hybrid renewable energy plants.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical leadership across the renewable energy engineering function, setting engineering standards and technical strategies.
• Lead technical assurance throughout the project lifecycle, from concept and basic engineering through detailed design, commissioning, and handover.
• Oversee power system studies, including load flow, short circuit, dynamic, transient stability, and electromagnetic transient studies.
• Provide technical oversight across the electrical design of utility-scale renewable energy projects, reviewing key equipment selections.
• Provide engineering leadership for plant control architecture, SCADA, PPC, and energy management systems.
• Provide senior technical oversight during factory testing, site testing, and commissioning activities.
• Identify emerging technologies and engineering approaches to improve portfolio competitiveness and reliability.
• Act as the senior technical interface with utilities, grid operators, developers, OEMs, and other technical stakeholders.

Power Systems and Grid Integration Focus

A key focus of this role is leading the technical approach to integrating large-scale inverter-based renewable generation into utility networks. This includes oversight of specialist studies related to grid stability, power quality, weak-grid operation, grid-forming and grid-following inverter behavior, harmonics, resonance, sub-synchronous interactions, power system oscillations, protection and control, and grid event analysis. The role ensures compliance with country-specific grid codes and identifies operational challenges not captured by standard compliance.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is an established senior engineering leader with 20+ years of experience in electrical engineering, power systems, renewable energy, or grid integration, including significant experience leading technical or engineering teams. A strong technical foundation in power systems and renewable generation, with demonstrable experience working with large-scale inverter-based resources, is essential.

Required Experience

• 20+ years of experience in electrical engineering, power systems, renewable energy, utilities, EPC, grid operations, or a related environment.
• 7–10+ years in a senior engineering, technical, or technology leadership position.
• Extensive experience with utility-scale renewable generation.
• Strong understanding of electrical power systems and grid integration.
• Significant experience with inverter-based resources, including solar PV, wind, BESS, and/or hybrid plants.
• Experience with grid connection studies and international grid-code requirements.
• Strong understanding of power system modeling and simulation.
• Experience overseeing complex technical investigations, grid events, and root-cause analysis.
• Experience with commissioning, testing, and technical troubleshooting of large renewable energy assets.
• Demonstrable ability to make technically robust decisions while understanding their commercial and project implications.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with renewable portfolios or individual projects exceeding 1GW.
• Experience operating or integrating renewable generation into networks with high levels of renewable penetration.
• Experience with weak-grid environments and complex grid stability issues.
• Knowledge of RTDS or equivalent real-time simulation platforms.
• Experience with HIL testing, SAT, and commissioning.
• Knowledge of grid-forming/grid-following inverter technologies.
• Experience with BESS and hybrid renewable plants.
• Familiarity with IEEE, IEC, and CIGRE standards and guidelines.
• Experience working with utilities, TSOs/DSOs, OEMs, and major renewable developers internationally.