An Onsite Energy Engineer Who Turns Plans Into Progress
A dedicated EM3 engineer embedded in your facility, typically five days a week, driving the energy actions, the ISO 50001 compliance and the improvement opportunities that otherwise sit in reports, and backed by our whole engineering organisation.
- An embedded engineer inside your teams, not a remote consultant
- Drives identified opportunities through to implementation, not just reporting
- Maintains ISO 50001 compliance as a daily, active discipline
- Backed by EM3 specialist and senior engineers and a structured cadence
- Part of SHV Energy
- ISO 50001
What This Service Is
The Onsite Energy Engineer service is a long-term, embedded engineering support model where EM3 places a dedicated engineer directly within your facility to support energy performance, compliance and continuous improvement on a daily basis. This is not a consultancy role operating remotely or delivering periodic reports. The engineer becomes part of the site's operational environment, working within your teams and reporting structures while still being supported by EM3's wider engineering and specialist network, typically five days a week across the working year.
The role is responsible for identifying and implementing energy-saving opportunities, supporting project planning, coordinating between internal and external stakeholders, maintaining ISO 50001 compliance, and making sure energy initiatives are actively progressed rather than left as plans or reports. It is designed for industrial sites that need continuous, hands-on engineering involvement to manage energy performance in live operations, rather than relying on intermittent advisory input.
Governing standardISO 50001
The Challenge It Solves
Before this service, the client typically already has energy-related work underway, but it is not progressing effectively inside the site organisation. The issue is not a lack of audits, ideas or identified opportunities. The problem is that the actions identified through audits, reporting, ISO 50001 requirements or funding programmes are not being consistently driven through the internal teams.
The site has the outputs, the energy reports, the improvement opportunities, the compliance requirements, but it lacks the ownership and coordination needed to turn them into implemented results. Without a dedicated onsite resource, issues identified in reporting are not closed, opportunities are not developed, and the alignment between engineering, operations and external stakeholders becomes inconsistent. The problem is operational and structural: the site needs someone embedded who can move between teams, push actions forward, ensure accountability and maintain momentum across multiple parallel energy and sustainability workstreams.
- Plenty of audits and opportunities, but nothing getting closed out
- No single owner driving energy actions through the internal teams
- Reports and compliance requirements that never become results
- Momentum lost across parallel energy and sustainability workstreams
How EM3 Delivers It
Assign and embed a dedicated engineer
We assign a dedicated engineer to your site under a defined support structure. They operate on site full-time, to a standard pattern of around eight hours a day, five days a week, across most of the working year, working inside your teams and reporting lines.
Run a structured delivery model
We set the priorities and focus areas through a recurring strategic cadence, typically monthly planning and review cycles, prioritising tasks on impact, feasibility and alignment with both our methodologies and your operational objectives.
Drive the day-to-day
The engineer identifies and progresses low- and no-cost energy-saving actions, supports the scoping of larger projects, follows up on issues raised in energy reporting, supports routine energy and water performance reporting, and works directly with your site personnel to resolve operational inefficiencies.
Coordinate across stakeholders
The engineer acts as the connection point between our project teams, your internal engineering and operations teams and any third-party contractors, keeping alignment and maintaining progress across all the energy-related activities.
Backed by the EM3 organisation
The onsite engineer is not an isolated individual. They are backed by subject-matter experts and senior engineers, with periodic onsite or remote support, so the role stays effective and aligned with best practice.
Clear boundaries
The onsite engineer does not deliver active capital projects directly. Those are scoped, priced and delivered separately through our project-delivery structures, with the engineer keeping them coordinated and on track.
What You Receive
An embedded engineering capability
Not a single report, but an ongoing capability that actively manages energy performance within your site, day after day.
Opportunities turned into results
Continuous identification and implementation of energy-saving opportunities, and consistent follow-through on the operational issues that affect energy use.
ISO 50001 actively managed
Ongoing support maintaining ISO 50001 compliance and executing the actions it requires, so compliance is managed in daily operations, not just documented.
Cross-team coordination
Alignment between engineering, operations and project teams, plus maintained progress on grant funding, rebate opportunities and wider sustainability initiatives.
Project development support
Structured support for scoping and developing the larger projects, ready to feed into our project-delivery teams.
A constant presence
A dedicated on-site presence focused on driving energy performance improvement and converting identified opportunities into measurable outcomes.
Proven Outcome
The role is at its strongest inside a long-term programme. On one multi-year energy and decarbonisation roadmap, the embedded onsite engineer is responsible for progressing the actions behind ambitious programme targets, which include the full drawdown of around 30 million euro in grant funding, significant multi-year cost savings and cost avoidance, and the monetisation of efficiency schemes such as EEOS.
The engineer identifies and implements the improvements, coordinates the stakeholders, maintains the compliance and keeps everything aligned with the funding and reporting requirements. It shows what the role really does: it turns a site's energy ambitions into progress that actually happens, day after day, rather than plans that sit in a report.
Why EM3
Embedded in a wider system
The engineer is not an isolated individual. The role sits inside a wider EM3 system, supported by specialist engineers, structured planning processes and ongoing strategic oversight, so the work stays aligned with broader energy objectives and benefits from the collective expertise of the organisation.
Part of an energy-management framework
The role is integrated into a broader framework of ISO 50001 compliance, energy reporting and project development, so the engineer is actively contributing to a structured improvement programme rather than just reacting to whatever comes up.
Genuinely independent
We operate without ties to equipment vendors, so the recommendations and actions are based on engineering and operational priorities rather than product or technology sales.
Built for complex sites
The service is built for complex industrial environments, with demonstrated application on pharmaceutical and advanced-manufacturing sites where energy systems are tightly linked to production, compliance and operational risk.
How We Engage
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this a consultant who visits now and then?
No. It is a dedicated engineer embedded in your facility, typically five days a week across the working year, working inside your teams and reporting structures, while backed by EM3 wider engineering and specialist network.
What does the onsite engineer actually do?
They identify and implement low- and no-cost energy-saving actions, follow up on issues from energy reporting, scope and support larger projects, maintain ISO 50001 compliance, coordinate between your teams and external stakeholders, and keep grant funding and sustainability initiatives moving.
Does the engineer deliver our capital projects?
No, and that boundary is deliberate. The onsite engineer drives, scopes and coordinates; active capital projects are scoped, priced and delivered separately through our project-delivery structures, with the engineer keeping them aligned.
How is the role supported?
The engineer is not an isolated individual. They are embedded in a wider EM3 system, with specialist and senior engineers behind them, structured monthly planning and review cycles, and ongoing strategic oversight, so the work stays aligned with best practice.
How long is the engagement?
It is a long-term, embedded service, typically a twelve-month engagement, renewed where it is working, and in larger programmes it extends across multiple years as part of an ongoing energy and decarbonisation roadmap.
Why not just hire our own energy engineer?
An EM3 onsite engineer brings the same daily presence but is backed by a whole specialist organisation, a structured methodology and an independence from equipment vendors that an internal hire working alone simply cannot match.
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