Asset Engineer - Offshore Power Transmission in Wolverhampton

Our client is a firm member of the Electricity Transmission industry, specialising in strategical investment in offshore electricity transmission systems across Europe.

We are looking for an experienced Substation/Transmission engineer, Senior wind turbine technician (with electrical and fault-finding experience) or other related engineer who is familiar with fault finding, electrical systems (high and low voltage) and ideally experience working offshore.

KEY TASKS:

Principle duties, accountabilities and responsibilities of the Asset Engineer will include:

• Management of health, safety, environmental and contractor management, including undertaking audits of the O&M service provider and providing reports to senior management.
• Managing and ensuring compliance with business objectives.
• Management of outsourced Operations and Maintenance (“O&M”) providers, including where necessary procuring additional services and managing the associated contract.
• Identification and mitigation of operational risks.
• Ensure work is undertaken in accordance the Asset Management Strategy, identifying trends and providing improvement suggestions where appropriate.
• Incident management and review, providing recommendations to senior management for all operational incidents / asset failures.
• Reporting and/or assisting in the reporting to lenders, lenders technical advisor insurers, and regulatory authorities etc.; and
• Stakeholder management and representing DTUK with external bodies.

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Essential:

• Degree level education or the equivalent in an engineering (preferably electrical) discipline.
• Project management qualification preferred.
• Demonstrable experience of electricity transmission technology and a proven knowledge and understanding of all related technologies.
• Electrical maintenance and fault-finding experience – ideally in a substation or high voltage system.
• Ability to travel in the UK, possibly spending 1 or 2 nights a week away from home.
• Project / contractor management skills.
• Experience of managing contractors, developing and negotiated contracts from technical and commercial aspects.
• Proven asset management ability to develop asset management strategies using condition monitoring and utilising asset databases and reporting tools.
• Knowledge and understanding of all key business issues that impact electricity transmission assets.
• Proven ability to develop working relationships quickly and effectively within a small team and externally with outsourced service providers.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, articulate, diplomatic but able to “get the job done”; and
• A strong work ethic; the ability to work ‘hands on’ to tight deadlines and be able to deal with competing priorities.

Desirable:

• Experience of offshore transmission, subsea cables especially their condition monitoring, failure mechanisms and repair techniques.
• In-depth knowledge of substation supporting systems, e.g. cranes, heating and ventilation/air-conditioning, fire detection/deluge systems, low voltage distribution systems and uninterruptible power supplies
• Proven in-depth knowledge of electricity regulation and knowledge of NESO.
• Experience of major construction contracts and the management thereof.
• It would be an advantage to be knowledgeable with regards to safe systems of work and ideally authorised as Senior Authorised Person.
• Experience of project financed companies and working with lenders and their advisors; and
• IOSH/NEBOSH qualification.