Senior O+M Engineer

Job Title

Senior O+M Engineer

Lowestoft, London or Glasgow

From £57,600, up to 15% bonus and health cover

Yes

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 (Germany, France, Spain) and USA. 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

• Good knowledge and some industrial experience of a relevant area of technical speciality (eg. Wind turbines, cables, High Voltage, Scada, Drive trains, Electronics, Data analysis).
• 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.
• Good organizational and operational skills with the ability to link this awareness to technical judgement and decision making.
• Good planning and analysis skills with the ability to look forward and anticipate problems and thereafter plan and implements mitigating solutions to negate the effect of such problems.
• Ability to work, manage teams and manage decision making process under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Ability to support the management of a scope of works which require interface and coordination.
• Ability to manage change and experience of leading others through change.
• Contribute (or ensure resources are available) to early development projects, giving advice to development teams on repairability/…