Description
A Renewable Energy client is looking for an Operations and Maintenance (O & M) Concept Engineer to work on a new development offshore wind project. This role will be supporting the current origination team completing a 6-12 months contract in Hamburg.Scope:
Development of operations concept for future technology offshore wind farm projects
- Evaluation of potential future WTG / foundation / substation from an operations perspective
- Analyse technology-specific framework requirements and assist in deriving optimal operations set-ups including logistics and infrastructure needs
Implement the tailored operations concept for future technology construction wind farm projects
- Assist in deploying and implementing the developed O&M strategy as a member of the project team, functionally reporting into the O&M Package Manager
- Provide input, review and comment designs of crew vessels, site facility and quayside layout,
- Provide operational requirements to the engineering team and review technical designs
- Gather lessons learned on other sites within the client's offshore fleet and make sure they are taken into account in the engineering and design of future farms
- Assist in negotiating service contracts for the operations phase and address O+M requirements covered in the turbine and other infrastructure supply agreements
Support planning activities
- Support, align and optimise O+M package in contract placement planning with a focus on fleet-wide optimisation and synergies
- Support, align and optimise particular offshore wind projects in financial planning activities such as long-term OPEX modelling
- Gather information from existing sites on campaign planning, e.g. maintenance campaigns and major component exchanges
Coordinate and support divestment process from a technical O&M perspective
- Give input to O&M concept for potential financial partners (e.g. availability calculation, accessibility study, failure rates and related spare parts statistics)
- Give input to O+M concept with regards to major component exchanges and jack-up vessel deployment
- Identify cost saving potentials focusing on synergies and scale-effects
- Facilitate the cross-site stock and spare usage and develop particular spare parts concept covering all parts of the wind farm (e.g. WTG / foundation / substation)
- Support operations management and service contract negotiations with potential shareholders
Qualifications
- Knowledge of O&M
- Previous experience in setting up O+M concepts
- Fluency in German language skills is required
- Dutch sector would be an advantage.