STRUCTURES ENGINEER-O&M (m/f/d)

Belonging to the Operations Engineering Mechanical and Structural Team and reporting to an Operations Engineering Lead Engineer, the Structures Engineer will be responsible for defining O&M Strategies and plans, tendering (technical), negotiating (technical) and being technical lead for small-scale offshore O&M campaigns/installations including management of contractors and associated interfaces, and ensuring quality, best practices and excellent H&SE performance are applied.

The individual will be working as part of a global business with activities in many countries across Europe and the rest of the world, although with a main focus on the offshore windfarm sites in Germany

RESPONSABILITIES AND FUNCTIONS

• Provide 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.
• Implement offshore standards, procedures, tools, best practices and quality requirements.
• Evaluate O&M solutions / risk levels affecting  technical integrity or asset performance and give mitigation recommendations to the Lead Ops. Eng. Engineers 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.
• 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 Iberdrola business processes.
• 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
• 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)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ensure recommendations for improvement are fed into lessons learnt regarding offshore wind farm operation and Maintenance for sharing across the different Offshore Projects.
• Provide structures 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 worldwide -coordinate with employees working within a number of countries throughout Europe (UK, Germany, France, Spain…) and USA

MANDATORY SKILLS

• Masters degree in Structural, Civil or Mechanical Engineering
• IT literate with the ability to operate MS Office systems and other IT based project management software.
• Flexible to travel around Germany and overseas
• Experience of contracting, engineering design or delivery
• Experience of wind or oil and gas offshore sectors
• Good knowledge in the area of structural integrity, inspection and maintenance activities
• Good knowledge of the design of offshore structures
• Experience in operational structures
• Knowledge of the equipment commonly found in Offshore wind projects including the wind turbines.

• Direct experience of applying the H&S and environmental legislation associated with offshore operations projects
• Some experience in leading teams.
• Some experience in analysing failures and test reports
• Some experience in defining maintenance scope of works
• Ability to manage people effectively to deliver required outputs in a timely manner.
• Competent in future planning.
• Competent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to influence and develop key project and business decisions.
• Developed report writing, presentation skills and ability to summarize key parameters and drivers impacting the project and business.
• English language

Internal info

Location: Berlin

Offshore O&M:  reporting to an Operations Engineering Lead Engineer