Senior/ Principal WTG Engineering Consultant (894266) London, England
| Salary: | Competitive |
We currently have an opportunity for a Senior/Principal WTG Engineering Consultant to be based in London on a Staff basis.
The Role:
- Working across multiple offshore wind farm projects, the primary focus for the Consultant is to deliver scopes of work on Offshore Wind Farm projects
- To support, and depending on experience lead, the expansion of Wind Turbine Engineering and WTG Package Management services for Offshore Wind developments through a wide range of consulting and engineering projects’ portfolio
Scope of Responsibilities:
Technical Advisory:
- Appraise and review project and technology feasibility
- Manage the technical risks especially during the design phases
- Support turbine/foundation design optimisation
- Manage technical interfaces
- Provide technical due diligence
- Engage with project certification bodies
- Triage operational issues and advise on solutions
- Design of commissioning and testing programmes
- Consult/lead structural assessments of key components
- Undertake feasibility assessments for commercial scale developments
- Manage project interfaces between OEMs, developers, foundation designers and certification bodies
Energy Yield:
- Develop and consult on site layout development and optimization activities
- Conduct/manage/check wind resource and energy yield assessments
- Assess potential retrofit add-ons/control upgrades, and judge their efficacy
- Challenging/justifying the assumptions made in business cases
- Due diligence for the sale or purchase of wind farms
Operational Performance Optimisation:
- Targeted operation and maintenance activities to reduce downtime
- Justifying retrofit add-ons/control upgrades, and judging their efficacy
- Quantifying the performance of prototypes
- Challenging/justifying the assumptions made in business cases
- Due diligence for the sale or purchase of wind farms
Independent Load Analysis:
- Loads analysis and certification engagement on behalf of developers
- Developing toolchains for fixed and floating wind analyses
- Manage project interfaces between OEMs, internal foundation designers and certification bodies
Competencies & Soft Skills:
Specific technical attributes:
- Strong engineering background and ideally previous experience with aeroelastic software calculations (HAWC, Bladed, FLEX or other)
- Ability to risk assess options to reach decisions in a dynamic and schedule driven environment
- Experience with consulting work
Furthermore:
- Detail conscientious
- Decision making, results orientation
- Strong work ethic
- Leadership skills
- Ability to multi-task
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good report writing skills essential
- Confident and outgoing individual
- Team player, self-starter and problem solver i.e. "Can -do" attitude
- Flexible to travel and working away from base office when required
Qualifications:
Electrical/Mechanical Engineering Degree or equivalent. Chartered Engineer