Senior Design & Supply Engineer (IAC) in Scotland

Scottish Power Renewables are looking for a Senior Design & Supply Engineer to join their EA2 project.

Main Purpose of Job

The Design & Supply Engineer (Inter Array Cables) is a key Senior Engineer role within the Offshore Renewables Business, focussing on the delivery of large-scale offshore wind projects of East Anglia 2 in the UK. The Senior Engineer will be responsible for implementing robust and cost effective engineering strategies, plans, specifications, tendering, negotiating and managing offshore design, supply and installation contracts, planning and implementing delivery sites and logistics, complying with company and business engineering standards and technical acceptance criteria, and ensuring quality, best practices and excellent Health, Safety and Environmental performance are applied. The position may require frequent travel to various locations in the UK and overseas.

Key Tasks

• Cable Design & Supply Engineer for a key package within one of Iberdrola’s offshore projects worldwide, providing key engineering advice, assessments and recommendations to ensure delivery of a multi-contract package 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.
• Provide professional advice on engineering strategies / risk levels and commercial agreements to the key package, to ensure that cost effective technical solutions are identified, fully evaluated and the risk profile is fully understood by the project.
• Ensure that all assessments, advice and recommendations are fully documented in accordance with all internal procedures and industry best practice, and that sufficient technical and commercial due diligence exists to support those business decisions.
• Deliver consistent, high-quality, cost-effective engineering advice to the key packages and projects.
• Manage the certification process with independent verification bodies to reduce design risk and enhance asset value.
• Review documents, drawings and data submitted by Contractors to ensure compliance with contract and project requirements.
• Ensure that health, safety and environmental requirements are fully considered and adhered to in design to ensure compliance with legislation and industry best practice.
• Manage the inspection and testing of appropriate aspects of offshore plant to ensure that assets are supplied and installed to the required quality and engineering standards.
• Maintain full awareness of the latest technical and commercial developments and identify suitable new technology that has the potential to reduce cost and risk or improve safety.
• Implement offshore standards, procedures, tools, best practices and quality requirements for key work packages to ensure that packages are delivered according to specification, budget and programme without compromising safety.
• Ensure that appropriate lessons learnt regarding offshore wind farm development and construction are captured and shared across the different Offshore Project work packages.

Key Criteria

• Submarine high voltage cables.
• Experience in design, manufacturing, construction and/or operations.
• Specification of HV cables from 33kV to 132kV.
• Understanding of cable system design and related engineering studies.
• Supporting contract and package manager in the delivery and execution of cable supply contracts.
• Cable design and sizing optimisation.
• Understanding of design issues relating to long transmission cables.
• Understanding of the design issues related to installation methods and conditions.
• Offshore windfarm inter-array cable layout design.
• Detailed knowledge of relevant standards such as IEC 60287, IEC 63026 & CIGRE TB722.
• Competent in the use of Finite Element Modelling (FEM) such as Ansys or COMSOL for the purpose of thermally rating cables.
• High degree of competency in the use of analytical tools such as Python, MATLAB and Excel for early engineering studies.
• Educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Achieved or eligible for qualification Chartered Engineer status.
• Substantial experience designing and working in the offshore industry, preferably offshore wind.
• Experience of working in teams involved in multidisciplinary work packages in international environments.
• Substantial experience in dealing with health and safety and environmental legislation associated with construction, marine and offshore projects.
• Proven experience in delivery of large packages, including contract management, programme management, cost and risk control.
• Sound relationship management skills and confidence working with Senior Management.
• Proven communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to influence and develop key engineering decisions.
• Excellent report writing, presentation skills and ability to summarise key parameters and drivers impacting the package.
• Sound planning and analysis skills with the ability to look forward and see / anticipate problems and thereafter plan and implement mitigating solutions to negate the effect of such problems.
• Ability to identify resource constraints and provide recommendations to mitigate capacity or capability gaps.

Other Role Information

• Offshore Working Expected: Yes
• Site Working Expected: Yes
• Travel to International Site Working Expected: Yes