Engineering Manager for offshore design of wind turbine foundations

Would you like to join a team of highly skilled employees working with offshore wind farms?

Join our department and become our new Engineering Manager in the department Offshore Design.

Together with 25 experienced colleagues in the department, you will be part of a competence centre responsible for development and construction of foundations for offshore wind turbines for the rapidly growing offshore pipeline.

The department is part of Renewables, a large and rapidly growing business unit with 930 employees. We are one of the leading energy companies in Europe with more than 30 years of experience within the fields of developing, constructing and operating offshore wind farms, and up to 20 per cent of our power is produced from renewable resources. We are also one of the leading developers of offshore wind projects in the United Kingdom.

You may choose freely to be based either at our office in Skærbæk near Fredericia or at our office in Gentofte.

You should expect a number of travels in Denmark and to our sites in Northern Europe, including the United Kingdom and Germany. You should also be prepared to work periodically on our onshore and offshore construction sites.

Areas of responsibility
You will be part of a multi-discipline engineering team performing structural design of complex foundation structures for our offshore wind turbines, from feasibility and concept studies to detail design and follow-up.

Additionally, you will be responsible for the structural design, layout and interfaces to the turbine and the electrical design, and you will coordinate work between multi-functional teams working with the projects.

Furthermore, your key duties will be to:

• prepare turbine foundation design basis for the detailed design
• prepare technical requirements as part of tender and contract documents for foundation fabrication
• ensure state-of-the-art design of turbine foundations with continuous focus on technology development
• facilitate cooperation with third-party certifying agencies to obtain statement of compliance on structural integrity
• inform project management of all significant technical issues, particularly risks, and develop contingency plans.

Your profile
You will have a degree in structural engineering supplemented with experience with offshore engineering.

It will be beneficial if you can draw on experience with project management.

Additionally, you will thrive in an international environment. Our projects bring together various employee groups, nationalities, cultures and authorities, and it is important that you have strong communication skills and speak and write English fluently.

It is essential that you have a result-oriented approach to your work. Furthermore, you will have team spirit and be able to create excellent results through teamwork. Moreover, you will thrive working both independently and together with your colleagues and business partners.

We offer
You will be joining a dynamic team with competent colleagues who value knowledge sharing and initiatives in a department at the forefront of the offshore wind power development.

Our offshore wind projects comprise multiple disciplines, and you will perform work with a high level of complexity. You will have unique opportunities to have an influence on your daily work, develop new competences and pursue a career in a large international organisation.

Additionally, you will have excellent opportunities for further develop your competences when you participate in the implementation of some of the world's largest construction projects within the field of wind power. Through your work, you will contribute actively to fight climate change when you help us implement an ambitious strategy for international growth and continuous development of CO2-free energy solutions.

We offer substantial freedom with responsibility and attractive working conditions, excellent educational opportunities and an active employee policy, which supports your career throughout the various phases of your working life.

Contact us
Please do not hesitate to contact Manager for Offshore Design Mathilde Damsgaard on telephone +45 99 55 25 87 if you have further questions.

We look forward to receiving your application in Danish or English, your CV and relevant certificates as well as diplomas solely as electronic files by 6 February 2012.

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