Operations and Maintenance Concept Engineer

Beschreibung

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, eg 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 (eg 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 (eg 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.