Our client is a firm member of the Electricity Transmission industry, specialising in strategical investment in offshore electricity transmission systems across Europe.
We are looking for an experienced Substation/Transmission engineer, Senior wind turbine technician (with electrical and fault-finding experience) or other related engineer who is familiar with fault finding, electrical systems (high and low voltage) and ideally experience working offshore.
KEY TASKS:
Principle duties, accountabilities and responsibilities of the Asset Engineer will include:
* Management of health, safety, environmental and contractor management, including undertaking audits of the O&M service provider and providing reports to senior management.
* Managing and ensuring compliance with business objectives.
* Management of outsourced Operations and Maintenance (“O&M”) providers, including where necessary procuring additional services and managing the associated contract.
* Identification and mitigation of operational risks.
* Ensure work is undertaken in accordance the Asset Management Strategy, identifying trends and providing improvement suggestions where appropriate.
* Incident management and review, providing recommendations to senior management for all operational incidents / asset failures.
* Reporting and/or assisting in the reporting to lenders, lenders technical advisor insurers, and regulatory authorities etc.; and
* Stakeholder management and representing DTUK with external bodies.
QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Essential:
* Degree level education or the equivalent in an engineering (preferably electrical) discipline.
* Project management qualification preferred.
* Demonstrable experience of electricity transmission technology and a proven knowledge and understanding of all related technologies.
* Electrical maintenance and fault-finding experience - ideally in a substation or high voltage system.
* Ability to travel in the UK, possibly spending 1 or 2 nights a week away from home.
* Project / contractor management skills.
* Experience of managing contractors, developing and negotiated contracts from technical and commercial aspects.
* Proven asset management ability to develop asset management strategies using condition monitoring and utilising asset databases and reporting tools.
* Knowledge and understanding of all key business issues that impact electricity transmission assets.
* Proven ability to develop working relationships quickly and effectively within a small team and externally with outsourced service providers.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills, articulate, diplomatic but able to “get the job done”; and
* A strong work ethic; the ability to work ‘hands on’ to tight deadlines and be able to deal with competing priorities.
Desirable:
* Experience of offshore transmission, subsea cables especially their condition monitoring, failure mechanisms and repair techniques.
* In-depth knowledge of substation supporting systems, e.g. cranes, heating and ventilation/air-conditioning, fire detection/deluge systems, low voltage distribution systems and uninterruptible power supplies
* Proven in-depth knowledge of electricity regulation and knowledge of NESO.
* Experience of major construction contracts and the management thereof.
* It would be an advantage to be knowledgeable with regards to safe systems of work and ideally authorised as Senior Authorised Person.
* Experience of project financed companies and working with lenders and their advisors; and
* IOSH/NEBOSH qualification.