RWE Offshore Wind Services, LLC
Functional area: Engineering
Our Engineering Management team at RWE Offshore Wind is looking for an Project Engineer - Certification with a solid technical background to drive our offshore development activities and future construction activities.
This role will focus on our Community Offshore Wind project off the coast of New York and New Jersey. Community Offshore Wind is a Joint Venture with National Grid Venture and is one of the largest offshore wind farms development areas in United States and within RWE's global portfolio. This role will initially focus on setting up and coordinating the project certification and verifications requirements with extensive coordination with the appointed project Certification Verification Authority (CVA). This position is expected to be based in our Boston area office 3 days a week to collaborate in person with the project team.
About the role:
- Deliver and enhance the Project Certification strategy and set up certification strategies on future projects. Support the Design and Engineering Managersin decision making regarding certification strategy.
- Day to day management of the certification process, closely liaising with the Certifier, Designer and other third parties (including regional authorities and regulators) to ensure the project is certified in a timely and efficient manner.
- Ensuring technical issues are identified, understood and addressed with a focus on the optimization of Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE).
- Develop the CVA scope of work and managed the exchange of information, documentation and follow up required to complete the CVA process.
- Support the development and completion of the Site Assessment Plans (SAP), Construction and Operations Plan (COP), Facility Design Report (FDR) Facility Installation Report (FIR).
- Primary point for contact for any regulatory related design issues within the team, and is tasked to interface and resolve any items.
- Manage the interface with CVA, the project team and the project design and construction contractors. Ensure CVA, safety and certification requirements are included in any design or construction contracts.
- Provide general project engineering support as needed to one or more project as needed.
Job requirements:
- Engineering degree from an accredited university in relevant background (civil/ mechanical/ structural/ ocean/ naval/ electrical) .
- 5+ years of relevant experience in development & construction of large infrastructure projects within the Offshore Wind, Onshore Wind, Solar, Oil or Gas industries.
- Demonstrated past experience with either offshore wind or similar energy related industries(technical, development, project management and commercial).
- Demonstratedengineering design experience and leading cross functional engineering team projects.
- Familiar with Certification Verification Authority (CVA) process with BSSE .
- Familiar with safety in design as well as familiar with industry codes and standards applicable to offshore wind projects.
- Willing to perform relevant offshore safety trainings and "go" offshore for certain activities. Willing to travel domestically and internationally.
- Fluent in spoken and written English.
Advantageous but not essential:
- 2+ years of offshore wind experience and a strong understanding of the offshore wind market.
- Licensed Professional Engineer or on path to obtain, as well as Project Management Professional certification or similar.
- Team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with people on different levels of hierarchy, different backgrounds and cultures, must be a team player.
- Results-oriented and Commercial mindset, ability to analyze and summarize complex development topics and aggregate decision-relevant information to convey messages clearly and concisely.
- Proven experience, ability to build and develop high performance teams and to motivate, acting comfortably in cross-cultural teams, collaborating across country boundaries with a sense of diversity and inclusion.
- Excellent understanding of technical analysis and specifically of competitive drivers that can help winning projects in very competitive tender environments.
- Strong track record in successful engineering construction management andgood knowledge of all wind farm package areas and their interdependencies.
- Good organizational skills and experience of project management. Willingness to innovate and challenge the status quo with a continuous-improvement mindset.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays. Eligible employees also participate in short-term incentives, in addition to salary.
RWE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
For 125 years RWE has been the source of energy for millions of people across the globe. Now we're making all that energy green. This decade alone we're investing 50bn into renewables and will be carbon neutral by 2040 - ten years earlier than most other global targets. This is a chance to play a key role on our journey.
Join our renewables specialists, working across the clean energy spectrum to grow our operations to 50 GW by 2030 - with some of the world's largest on and offshore wind farms and industry-leading hydrogen initiatives. We're also considered innovators in solar development including floating photovoltaics and agri-photovoltaics. Or add your expertise to our supply and trading operations, brokering renewable electricity, green gas, commodities, and CO2 emission allowances from one of our advanced energy trading floors.
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