Lead Engineer

Roles and responsibilities

• Identification and compliance with applicable international standards and best practice.
• Development & sign-off of local standards and guidelines as required.
• Ensuring that the technical content of procedures and guidelines are up to date and technically sound.
• Collaborate with QA/QC departments to set up sound standards such as ITPs and RoS checklists for the manufacturing, installation and commissioning stages of new projects of respective technology.
• Ensuring best maintenance practices are applied in all wind projects towards best plants’ performance

Risk Identification and Mitigation

• Ensure asset specific risks are identified and mitigated to ensure safe and reliable operation of assets.
• Approve key engineering changes to critical assets to ensure design integrity.
• Identify vendors with equipment causing continued reliability issues
• Provide technical support in RCAs led by Business areas engineering, to the extent required.
• Jointly participate in QA/QC inspections and follow ups during project early stages to the extent required to ensure assets reliability and integrity during operation.
• Report quality in all maintenance activities and provide guidance to continuously and effectively improve it.

Engineering Support

• Design review and review of equipment technical specifications for both, Wind turbine Generators and Electrical BoPs.
• Must leverage industry experience, equipment knowledge, software know-how, to support world class predictive analytics and monitoring solutions.
• Participate, when appropriate, and contribute to near miss investigations by providing the technical expertise in the discipline.
• Identifying long term solutions for assigned tasks related to reliability issues that are deemed safety critical / urgent / high value to key stakeholders.
• Participate in the relevant network groups and provide guidance on Best Practices. Ensure REX/lessons learned are implemented.
• Attend asset specific international conferences.
• Provide guidance, mentoring and training on the wind technologies installed covering all maintenance activities, particularly in troubleshooting towards best efficiency and WTGs availability.
• Ensure Lessons learned and best practices are shared across Wind fleet.
• Be 2nd level support for troubleshooting activities towards shortest mean times to repair.

Projects

• Review and validate Vendor/OEM Listing for new projects.
• Be responsible for providing technical approval for asset specific plant or process changes / modification.
• Be responsible for review and approval of Safety System Changes within their discipline.

Desired candidate profile

• University degree in Engineering discipline. Master's degree is a plus.
• Vast knowledge and experience in maintenance of clean energy assets, preferably wind.

Required Skills

• Technical knowledge on Vestas and/ or Envision technologies, with strong practical hands on experience as service technician. Strong motivation and ability to transfer knowledge and experience as technical trainer.. Detailed knowledge and excellent understanding of: Power generation O&M, Asset Lifecycle Management.
• World class knowledge of asset specific design, construction, operation and failure modes.
• Motivation to learn extensively technology of main Chinese Wind Turbine Generator manufacturers.
• Technical knowledge and experience in Electrical BoPs is preferable.
• Motivation to work by technical assignments/ campaigns with specific targets across the Wind fleet
• Willingness to travel frequently with potential temporary relocation as per the assignment requirements.
• Strong interpersonal skills and proficient in English communication– verbal and written.