Head of Port Design & Offshore Wind Supply Chain

Venterra Group; Belfast; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading wind energy services company in Belfast seeks a Head of Port Design & Offshore Wind Supply Chain. The role involves client management, team leadership, and overseeing project delivery for a growing Ports team. Ideal candidates should possess strong client relationship skills and management experience. This full-time executive position aims to enhance services in the renewable energy sector.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing client relationships and work acquisition.
• Proven leadership skills in managing teams and project delivery.
• Strong understanding of commercial aspects in project management.

Responsibilities

• Spearhead work acquisition and client relationship management focusing on offshore developers and financiers.
• Ensure project delivery with adherence to quality standards and budget.
• Manage people development, growth, and departmental utilisation.
• Commercial – Participation in client sales acquisition, relationship management and ensuring departmental projects are delivered to budget

Skills

Client relationship management

Team leadership

Project delivery

Commercial management

Job description

Head of Port Design & Offshore Wind Supply Chain

Overview

Company: Venterra Group is a global wind energy services company, engineering, building and supporting major wind and renewables projects around the world. Our clear purpose: accelerate the global energy transition by becoming the go-to services provider and strategic partner for the rapidly expanding wind industry.

Our diverse team of experts is dedicated to making net zero a reality. We offer specialised services across the entire project lifecycle, including:

• Geoscience consultancy
• Design services
• Survey capabilities

By acquiring and bringing together leading offshore engineering and marine science companies like Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions, CAPE Holland, INSPIRE Environmental, Partrac and Ordtek, we provide the most comprehensive services and expertise in the market. And we’re not done growing yet, which means there are plenty of exciting career opportunities on offer for our team.

At Venterra, sustainability, safety, and quality are prioritised in everything we do, reducing project risk, time, and cost for our clients.

Our Design & Advisory Team

Venterra's Design and Advisory team is a multi-disciplinary group combining offshore policy, feasibility and marine consultancy with core civil and geotechnical engineering design expertise, operating in the offshore wind and marine development sectors. We combine our diverse skill sets to provide tailored solutions to suit client challenges and development plans. We can follow the client’s development process providing high value consultancy advisory in market studies, infrastructure and supply chain readiness, feasibility, due diligence and bankability assessment backed up by strong technical design expertise to help deliver and value engineer foundations and substations for floating and fixed offshore wind, transport & installation, port and marine infrastructure development assets.

Our multinational team operate on an agile basis to service clients globally. We pride ourselves in our investment in research and development with collaborative relationships with industry organisations providing thought leadership to the partners and clients we work with, whilst providing stimulating career and learning opportunities for our staff.

Role description / purpose of the role

Background: The Head of Department role will form a part of the Offshore Group senior management team and its 50 engineers and consultants. This will be a combination role of external facing client management, commercial management along with team, resource and delivery responsibility for the current team of 8 in the ports team. We are looking to build on the recent project successes of working more client side in energy related marine development projects, providing strategic advice to offshore developers and due diligence to financiers. There is also a heritage of design and delivery clients, but keen to have this team utilize their technical know-how working closely with the Marine Advisory team - where high value services are offered in combination.

Head of Department Ports & Supply Chain

This is an exciting leadership opportunity to grow and expand our Ports team as a part of our multidisciplinary Offshore Design and Advisory Group. You and your team will collaborate with our Advisory Consultancy team offering clients advice, specialist technical advice and designs for marine project infrastructure. The breadth of team service delivery includes strategic planning, option due diligence, market studies, concept and detailed designs.

Scope of the Ports Team activities

Market studies, infrastructure and supply chain readiness, feasibility, due diligence and bankability assessment, concept and detailed design, technical support to planning and EIA submissions and using technical consultancy for port and marine infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Client management and work acquisition - external responsibilities will be to spearhead work acquisition and client relationship management focusing on offshore developers, financiers, port operators, supply chain and tier 1 contractors.
• Team delivery – ensuring department project delivery with the team to ensure adherence to quality standards, programme and cost. Act as a lead consultant and advisor to clients and taking a senior role in supporting management of projects.
• Leadership & People Management – management of people development and growth, resourcing, department utilisation and recruitment.
• Commercial – Participation in client sales acquisition, relationship management and ensuring departmental projects are delivered to budget

Right to Work

Currently, we are only able to consider applicants who are authorized to work in the UK and Ireland without visa sponsorship.

At Venterra

At Venterra, we are committed to inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We take inclusion and diversity seriously. We know that getting this right is critical for us to live our organisation’s values. We are always striving to improve our way of working to be more inclusive and equitable. We are an equal opportunity employer. Our vision is for Venterra to be a place where people of all backgrounds, abilities, and identities feel welcomed and supported to work.

Job details

• Seniority level: Executive
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Management, Engineering, and Business Development
• Industries: Services for Renewable Energy, Civil Engineering, and Construction