Senior Design Engineer

Morson Talent; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to join their dynamic team in London. This pivotal role focuses on delivering large-scale offshore wind projects, specifically managing HV cable systems. You will be responsible for implementing effective engineering strategies, ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across various locations. If you have a strong offshore wind background and are passionate about innovative engineering solutions, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact in the renewable energy sector while working on exciting projects that shape the future of energy in the UK.

Qualifications

• Strong background in offshore wind with HV cables experience.
• Degree in relevant engineering discipline required.

Responsibilities

• Implement engineering strategies for offshore wind projects.
• Manage design and installation contracts ensuring compliance.

Skills

Offshore Wind Background

Cable System Design

Health, Safety and Environmental Compliance

Contract Management

Problem Solving

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Project Management

Education

Degree in Engineering

Chartered Engineer Status

Tools

Finite Element Modelling (Ansys, COMSOL)

Python

MATLAB

Excel

Job description

Our client Scottish Power Renewables are currently recruiting for a Senior Design Engineer to join their team based in London or Glasgow on a contract basis initially. Ideally for this role they are looking for candidates with a strong offshore wind background with experience with HV cables and an understanding of Cables system Design. For more information on this role see below:

Main Purpose of Job

The Electrical Engineer (Export Cables) is a key Senior Engineer role within the Offshore Renewables Business, focussing on the delivery of large-scale offshore wind projects of East Anglia 1 North in the UK. Belonging to the Project Services team and reporting to a Lead Cable Engineer in the department and the Inter Array Cable Package Manager, The Senior Engineer will be responsible for implementing robust and cost effective engineering strategies, plans, specifications, tendering, negotiating and managing offshore design, supply and installation contracts, planning and implementing delivery sites and logistics, complying with company and business engineering standards and technical acceptance criteria, and ensuring quality, best practices and excellent Health, Safety and Environmental performance are applied.

The position may require frequent travel to various locations in the UK and overseas and the individual should be capable of working with teams at different locations.

Key Tasks

1. Senior Cable Engineer for a key package within one of Iberdrola’s offshore projects worldwide, providing key engineering advice, assessments, and recommendations to ensure delivery of a multi-contract package within time, to budget and quality following industry best practice and observing the maximum respect for Health, Safety and the Environment to ensure regulatory and legal compliance.
2. Provide professional advice on engineering strategies / risk levels and commercial agreements to the key package, to ensure that cost effective technical solutions are identified, fully evaluated and the risk profile is fully understood by the project.
3. Ensure that all assessments, advice and recommendations are fully documented in accordance with all internal procedures and industry best practice, and that sufficient technical and commercial due diligence (whether internal or external) exists to support those business decisions.
4. Deliver consistent, high-quality, cost-effective engineering advice to the key packages and projects.
5. Manage the certification process with independent verification bodies (where applicable) to reduce design risk and enhance asset value.
6. Review of documents, drawings and data submitted by Contractors to ensure compliance with contract and project requirements.
7. Ensure that health, safety and environmental requirements are fully considered and adhered to in design to ensure compliance with legislation and industry best practice.
8. Manage the inspection and testing of appropriate aspects of offshore plant to ensure that assets are supplied and installed to the required quality and engineering standards.
9. Maintain full awareness of the latest technical and commercial developments and identify suitable new technology that has the potential to reduce cost and risk or improve safety.
10. Implement offshore standards, procedures, tools, best practices and quality requirements for key work packages to ensure that packages are delivered according to specification, budget and programme without compromising safety.
11. Ensure that appropriate lessons learnt regarding offshore wind farm development and construction are captured and shared across the different Offshore Project work packages. Collaborate with the Lead Engineer to ensure that the engineering team implements them to enhance business value.
12. The current IBR/SPR offshore project pipeline is larger than 6 GW, with project delivery scheduled to 2025 and beyond.
13. The Offshore Wind industry is still relatively immature, and a key focus is on driving down cost. The Offshore Technical team is focussed on project delivery from the very earliest phases of project development developing initiatives to reduce the cost of engineering, mitigating technical and commercial risk through sound engineering design and defining the project business model by optimising engineering solutions to the complex technical aspects of wind farm system design.
14. Coordination of complex engineering is a key activity in offshore projects (large packages), where CAPEX is higher than 2 million pounds per MW, resulting in total budgets of several billion pounds. Excellent technical ability plus reliable, accurate cost estimation, risk management and budget control are essential requirements.
15. Working within high performing, multidisciplinary team(s) spread across Europe and the Americas, which includes the management and coordination of engineering specialists operating across multiple projects incorporating many different educational and cultural backgrounds.

Key Criteria

1. Submarine and Land High Voltage Cables,
2. Experience in design, manufacturing, construction and/or operations.
3. Specification of HV cables from 220kV to 400kV
4. Understanding of cable system design and related engineering studies
5. Supporting contract and package manager in the delivery and execution of cable supply contracts
6. Cable design and sizing optimisation
7. Understanding of design issues relating to long transmission cables
8. Understanding of the design issues related to installation methods and conditions
9. Understanding different earthing schemes for Onshore & Offshore Export Cables
10. Detailed knowledge of relevant standards such as IEC 60287, IEC 60840, IEC 62067 & CIGRE TBs (446, 490, 722, 880 etc.)
11. Competent in the use of Finite Element Modelling (FEM) such as Ansys or COMSOL for the purpose of thermally rating cables.
12. High degree of competency in the use of analytical tools such as Python, MATLAB and Excel for early engineering studies.
13. Educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline.
14. Achieved or eligible for qualification Chartered Engineer status.
15. Substantial experience designing and working in the offshore industry, preferably offshore wind.
16. Experience of working in teams involved in multidisciplinary work packages in international environments.
17. Pro-active and diligent approach.
18. Substantial experience in dealing with health and safety and environmental legislation associated with construction, marine and offshore projects.
19. High degree of competency in future planning.
20. Proven experience in delivery of large packages, including contract management, programme management, cost and risk control.
21. Sound relationship management skills and confidence working with Senior Management.
22. Proven communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to influence and develop key engineering decisions.
23. Excellent report writing, presentation skills and ability to summarize key parameters and drivers impacting the package.
24. Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
25. Sound planning and analysis skills with the ability to look forward and see / anticipate problems and thereafter plan and implements mitigating solutions to negate the effect of such problems.
26. Innovative and creative thinking
27. Problem solving – dealing with conflicting requirements.
28. Tenacity, persistence, and determination to succeed in overcoming obstacles.
29. High capacity for change and experience of leading others through change.
30. Proven ability in giving accurate, concise, and timely advice to development teams.
31. Ability to identify resource constraints and provide recommendations to mitigate capacity or capability gaps.

Key Interfaces

1. Manage and resolve a range of technical/engineering issues within key packages on a day-to-day basis.
2. At short notice, act upon problems and ad-hoc projects without losing focus on major ongoing workload.
3. Ability to manage complex packages which require interface and precise coordination with multiple disciplines (structures, turbines, electrical cables, offshore substations, ports, vessels).
4. Ability to manage people at multiple international projects and sites.
5. Advise Principal/Lead Engineer, Package Lead or Discipline Manager on the impact of technical/specialist risks and issues, and the viability of solutions recommended.
6. Balance technical detail with commercial needs and provide recommendations, considering all relevant risks.

Internal:

1. Accountable to the Export Cable Package Manager & Lead Engineer.
2. Coordinate support and key expertise from Discipline seniors (electrical, civil, mechanical, etc.) to ensure key packages and contracts technical compliance to minimise costs/risks.
3. Collaborate with the Technical Services Team to secure key knowledge inputs for application within key packages/ contracts to secure best practice and value from investments.
4. Collaborate with Lead and Senior managers in Operations and Maintenance to ensure requirements are specified and delivered and assets are effectively transferred into operation to deliver business returns.