Lead Cost & Value Engineer (all genders)

Skyborn Renewables; Hamburg; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Permanent employment

Flexible work

30 days vacation

Modern environment

Learning & Development

Team events

Wellbeing support

Additional location benefits

Zusammenfassung

Skyborn Renewables in Germany seeks a Lead Cost & Value Engineer for Hamburg or Bremen to drive cost and value engineering across offshore wind projects, ensuring cost competitiveness and practical implementation across the lifecycle.

You will embed VE across the full portfolio, collaborating with engineering, procurement, and construction teams to deliver measurable value and optimized costs.

Qualifikationen

• Engineering degree in mechanical, electrical, civil, industrial or equivalent.
• Several years of experience across engineering, fabrication/production, supply chain, T&I and/or commercial interfaces.

Aufgaben

• Lead and embed cost & value engineering across Skyborn’s full project portfolio and lifecycle, ensuring sustained cost competitiveness and practical implementation.
• Challenge supply‑chain cost drivers and assumptions across engineering, materials, fabrication, T&I and services, working directly with suppliers to improve productivity and scope efficiency.
• Build and maintain a robust should‑cost and benchmark fact base, including cleansheets, to support decision‑making, negotiations and contract optimization.
• Identify, quantify and prioritize high‑impact cost and value opportunities across project stages and packages, translating insights into actionable levers and tracked value capture.
• Drive cross‑functional alignment on cost/value trade‑offs by partnering closely with Engineering, Development, Commercial, Package Management, Risk Management and Legal.
• Contribute to project and business risk management by identifying cost and value risks early and implementing optimization measures across functions and packages.
• Lead and facilitate structured value engineering initiatives in a matrix environment, delivering clear decisions, documented actions, and measurable value capture outcomes

Kenntnisse

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Value engineering

Cost optimization

English fluency

Ausbildung

Engineering degree

Jobbeschreibung

Offshore wind energy - the pillar of our future energy supply!

Skyborn Renewables is a pioneer and leading offshore wind developer and operator with more than 20 years’ experience and a track record of approx. 7 GW developed around the globe to date. The competencies of our 400 employees cover the entire offshore wind value chain, including greenfield development, engineering and design, procurement, financing, construction management and asset management. Do you want to make a difference? To advance the energy transition in an international and growing business field? Skyborn Renewables offers you the opportunity to do so. With us, you can expect a dynamic environment with committed employees as well as the opportunity to break new ground and expand your skills.

Become a part of our friendly team at our location in Hamburg or Bremen as a

Lead Cost & Value Engineer (all genders)

Your future tasks:

• Lead and embed cost & value engineering across Skyborn’s full project portfolio and lifecycle, ensuring sustained cost competitiveness and practical implementation.
• Challenge supply‑chain cost drivers and assumptions across engineering, materials, fabrication, T&I and services, working directly with suppliers to improve productivity and scope efficiency.
• Build and maintain a robust should‑cost and benchmark fact base, including cleansheets, to support decision‑making, negotiations and contract optimization.
• Identify, quantify and prioritize high‑impact cost and value opportunities across project stages and packages, translating insights into actionable levers and tracked value capture.
• Drive cross‑functional alignment on cost/value trade‑offs by partnering closely with Engineering, Development, Commercial, Package Management, Risk Management and Legal.
• Contribute to project and business risk management by identifying cost and value risks early and implementing optimization measures across functions and packages.
• Lead and facilitate structured value engineering initiatives in a matrix environment, delivering clear decisions, documented actions, and measurable value capture outcomes

Your profile:

• Engineering degree (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Industrial, or equivalent technical discipline).
• Several years’ experience across engineering, fabrication/production, supply chain, T&I and/or commercial interfaces, (foundations, cables, substations, or similar).
• Strong analytical skills to assess cost drivers and challenge engineering and commercial assumptions.
• Proven stakeholder management across engineering, commercial, risk, and legal functions in a matrix organization.
• Ability to lead value engineering from analysis and decision‑making through to execution.
• Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.
• Willingness to travel to suppliers and other office locations as required.

Our benefits:

• Permanent employment in an international company where you make a difference in the renewable energy sector
• Flexible ways of working: Mobile office regulation of 40% per week
• Enjoy your vacation of 30 days, extended with possible unpaid vacation days
• A modern work environment with open doors and room for your own ideas in a friendly, modern working environment
• Learning and Development Opportunities to support your personal and professional growth
• Our company celebrations, team events and get-togethers are extraordinary
• We care for your wellbeing, our Employee Assistance Program offers training and counselling to support your wellbeing
• Other employee benefits depending on location: capital-forming benefits, subsidized company pension plan, company bicycle leasing (business bike) and company fitness (EGYM Wellpass)