Senior O+M Engineer (Wind Turbines) in London

The Senior O&M Engineer is a critical role within O&M of the Offshore Business focussing on the delivery of O&M scope of works in the UK and potentially overseas (USA, Germany, France...). The role involves working with Contractors, Multinational Joint Ventures and multiple departments within Offshore O&M, Offshore Operations and Global Services to ensure that SPR’s/Iberdrola long term asset value and production revenue is maximised.

Belonging to the Asset Integrity Management Department Team, and reporting to a Lead O&M Engineer or the Department Manager, the Senior O&M 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, ensuring quality, best practices and excellent H&SE performance are applied.

The Senior O&M Engineer is a qualified experienced professional providing advice & expertise within a specific technical discipline on a particular scope of O&M work affecting combined OPEX of up to £6m/year. The individual will be working as part of a global business with activities in many countries across Europe and the rest of the world. The position may require frequent travel to various locations in the UK and overseas.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ensure that all assessment, advice and recommendations are fully documented in accordance with all internal procedures and industry best practice.
• 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.
• 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.
• Assist an O&M scope of works team and coordinate with employees working within a number of countries throughout Europe and USA.
• 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.
• Good knowledge and some industrial experience of a relevant area of technical speciality (e.g. Wind turbines, cables, High Voltage, Scada, Drivetrains, Electronics, Data analysis).
• 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 communication and interpersonal skills.
• Developed report writing, presentation skills and ability to summarise key parameters and drivers impacting the project and business.
• Good organisational 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.
• Ability to work, manage teams and manage decision making process under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Ability to manage change and experience of leading others through change.
• Contribute to early development projects, giving advice to development teams on repairability/maintenance issues.
• Recruit staff necessary to deliver O&M works over the above timescales.
• Advice on the impact of technical/specialist risks and issues and the viability of solutions recommended.
• Balance technical detail with commercial needs and provide recommendations, taking into account all relevant risks.
• Develop and apply knowledge of European/local country standards.
• Some experience of offshore operations.

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