Senior O+M Engineer

Description

• Technical/engineering lead of small-scale offshore O&M campaigns/installations with a number of interfaces and coordination to manage within one or more of Iberdrola’s offshore projects mainly in UK and Ireland - and working within staff in a number of countries throughout Europe
• Ensure that all assessment, advice and recommendations are fully documented in accordance with all internal procedures and industry best practice, and that sufficient technical and commercial due diligence (whether internal or external) exists to support those business decisions.
• Assist O&M teams in accordance with agreed SPR business processes.
• Ensure recommendations for improvement are fed into lessons learnt regarding offshore wind farm operation and Maintenance for sharing across the different Offshore Projects.
• Work with the HSE team to develop HSE strategy for O&M works and ensure a high standard of health and safety awareness is maintained..
• Assist an O&M scope of works team and coordinate with employees working within a number of countries throughout Europe (UK, Germany, France, Spain…) and USA to ensure project execution with intelligent and cost effective resourcing.
• Balance technical detail with commercial needs and provide recommendations, taking into account all relevant risks.
• Evaluate O&M solutions / risk levels affecting technical integrity or asset performance and give mitigation recommendations to the Lead O&M Engineers or Department Manager of either AIM or the sites or the readiness teams, to ensure that cost effective O&M solutions are identified, fully evaluated and the risk profile can be reduced appropriately by the O&M teams.
• Providing O&M engineering support, assistance and recommendations to ensure delivery of mid to large scale O&M works within time, to budget and quality following industry best practice and observing the maximum respect for Health, Safety and the Environment to ensure regulatory and legal compliance.
• Recruit staff necessary to deliver O&M works over the above timescales.
• Evaluate the best course of action for technical interventions and present the case for it to internal leads and Managers or external contractors based on the analysed asset integrity status, Electricity production and other KPIs
• Develop and apply knowledge of European/local country standards
• Provide input on appropriate bid levels / commercial strategies and commercial agreements relative to projects. Provide key input in the preparation of investment dossiers for all funding requests for projects.
• Provide key and strategic advice, assessment and recommendations to the business giving input and support to the projects throughout the whole life cycle (development to decommissioning)
• Contribute (or ensure resources are available) to early development projects, giving advice
• Implement offshore standards, procedures, tools, best practices and quality requirements.
• Organise and manage teams for the delivery of O&M works

Requirements

• Good knowledge and some industrial experience of a relevant area of technical speciality
• Tenacity, persistence and determination to succeed in overcoming obstacles.
• Some experience in defining maintenance scope of works
• Technical judgement and decision making.
• Competent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to influence and develop key
• Good organizational and operational skills with the ability to link this awareness to
• Problem solving – dealing with conflicting requirements
• Ability to manage people effectively to deliver required outputs in a timely manner.
• Good planning and analysis skills with the ability to look forward and anticipate problems
• Ability to work, manage teams and manage decision making process under pressure and
• Some experience in leading teams.
• Ability to manage change and experience of leading others through change.
• Some experience in analysing failures and test reports
• Developed report writing, presentation skills and ability to summarize key parameters and
• Competent in future planning.
• Ability to support the management of a scope of works which require interface and
• Some experience of offshore operations.

Benefits

• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more
• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Schemes
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance