Principal O&M Engineer - Transmission Assets

equinor; Great Yarmouth; Vor Ort; GBP 70.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Equinor O&M at the Greater Wash hub in Great Yarmouth is recruiting a Principal Transmission Asset Engineer to own the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm transmission assets and drive OMSA contractual performance with the OFTO.

The PTA will manage maintenance programs for onshore and offshore substations and export cables, chair monthly meetings and provide status reports and business-case support for changes.

Qualifikationen

• Minimum ONC/HNC Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Senior Authorised Person at 132kV or higher.
• Knowledge of HV protection schemes and associated plant.
• SF6 handling qualifications.
• NEBOSH/IOSH.
• Partial Discharge Inspection.

Aufgaben

• Own maintenance programs for onshore and offshore substations and export cables.
• Accountable for OFTO asset technical integrity and reporting status.
• Chair monthly meetings and provide status reports and business-case support for modifications.
• Collaborate with PTA system owners to share learning across assets.
• Attend risk analyses, procedure reviews and audits as requested.

Kenntnisse

Senior AP 132kV

HV protection

SF6 handling

NEBOSH/IOSH

Ausbildung

ONC/HNC Electrical Engineering

Power Engineering

Tools

SAP

ARIS

SCADA

UPS

Jobbeschreibung

What does the job involve?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the evolving Equinor O&M team at the Greater Wash hub in Great Yarmouth.

As Principal Transmission Asset (PTA) Engineer, you will have full accountability for the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm Transmission Assets. The PTA Engineer will also perform the role as Contract Responsible for the Operations, Maintenance and Service Agreement (OMSA) with the Transmission Assets owner (The OFTO) and drive asset availability to meet OMSA contractual availability targets.

The Principal Transmission Asset engineer will own the maintenance program for the Onshore and Offshore Substations and Onshore and Offshore Export Cables. Essential deliveries include regular OFTO interface, providing status and update reports and chairing monthly meetings. In addition, the PTA Engineer will also provide Joint Venture reports, business cases to support modifications and changes to the plant, apparatus, and maintenance programs. Attendance at Board of Director Consulting forums. Board Meeting attendance for presentation of updates and decisions where required.

The Sheringham Shoal Transmission assets have been in service for 15 years, so this is an exciting time to join and established and consistent team, maturing Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm for the future.

In addition to roles and responsibilities on Sheringham Shoal, you will become trained on Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm OFTO assets and development competence to support routine maintenance, troubleshooting, fault investigations and outage support across the 2 OFTO assets.

The role will be based onshore, Mon-Fri. in Great Yarmouth, based on the Equinor Hybrid Working Policy. The PTA Engineers are expected to join the on-call Senior Authorised Person rota, 1 week in 4.

The PTA Engineers are expected to travel to onshore substations (Salle, Necton) and offshore where they will provide Area Responsible cover and Senior Authorised Person duties as competence develops. The Offshore element is expected to be approx. 30 days per annum, via CTV or SOV.

What will my tasks be?

Within this position, your key tasks will be to:

• Accountable for HSE case handling for OFTO assets, driving HSE performance improvements, sharing lessons learnt and action follow up and close out in Equinor HSE reporting system.
• Attending onshore, offshore Substations and affected land sites as required to oversee maintenance delivery in role as SAP, AP or Area Responsible.
• Accountable for OFTO Asset Technical Integrity and reporting the status.
• Accountable for the Operations Plan (12month) delivery in accordance with Budget.
• Accountable for preparing OFTO Asset budget annually with a 3-year view.
• Performing Local Representative role for HV Safety Rules (with sufficient training).
• Integrate best practice and knowledge sharing within other Business Areas within the organization - including lessons learned.
• Investigate and support performance losses of the asset, produce recommendations for short- and long-term improvements and modifications.
• Review and QA maintenance data and history within SAP in accordance with ARIS Manage Maintenance Processes.
• Collaborate with other PTA system owners to increase competence and share learning across Sheringham Shoal, Dudgeon, and other Business Units in Equinor.
• Author, of Work Requirements, Procedures, System Operation manuals.
• Accountable for compliance with regulatory requirements (Crown Estate, MMO License etc.) with support from required competence.
• Attend risk analysis, procedure reviews and audits as requested.

Here's what we expect from you:

At Equinor, there are some overall qualities we regard as essential. We want you to identify with the values that guide our decisions and help us succeed and grow: open, collaborative, courageous and caring. We expect you to make safety your priority and to contribute to our zero-harm culture.

And for this specific position, we are also looking for:

• A Role Model for Safety and Compliance, leading by example and driving safety performance improvements across the OFTO O&M delivery.
• Flexibility is necessary. On occasion, unplanned and unforeseen events will require full attention, such as actual of imminent unplanned transmission asset trips, and these will need to be prioritised.
• Minimum ONC/HNC Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering or Equivalent.
• Senior Authorised Person at minimum 132kV or demonstrating sufficient knowledge, training, and skills to achieve this in a short time frame.
• Knowledge of HV protection schemes, discrimination, ancillary plant and apparatus such as Fire and Gas systems, SCADA, UPS, LV circuits, Emergency Generators.
• SF6 Handling Qualifications.
• NEBOSH/IOSH.
• Partial Discharge Inspection.

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