Offshore Wind Consultant

Overview / Responsibilities

Wood has an opportunity for an Offshore Wind Energy Expert to be part in our global technical advisory team. The successful candidate will lerage their existing network and skills to develop leads and project manage consultancy assignments for offshore wind farm projects. In particular you will have the following key responsibilities:

• Manage diverse technical advisory assignments for offshore wind energy projects (incl. for example technical due diligence for project finance or investment, construction monitoring)
• Review and analyse offshore wind farm projects in development, construction or operation. This will include for example review of technical aspects of construction and operation contracts, project cost estimates and project programme
• Support the preparation of technical specifications, bid evaluation, negotiation with suppliers, design review, site supervision and quality control
• work in multi-disciplinary project teams
• Reporting on projects internally and to clients
• Providing technical and general support to clients and internally to other business units
• Maintain local relationship with clients and subcontractors to further grow Woods business in the region
• Attend conferences and present Woods services and capabilities to clients and business partners
• Continuously monitoring work to ensure QSE compliance
• Conducting project site visits and client meetings in Europe

Qualifications

• A relevant engineering degree (mechanical, electrical, civil engineering) or industrial engineer) or similar qualification
• Relevant working experience in the offshore industry required
• Prior experience in successful management of due diligence projects is a benefit
• The ability to produce and review high quality reports to predefined deadlines
• The role is client facing and so the candidate must be a confident communicator with smart appearance
• A flexible and proactive approach to work
• Attention to detail, reliability and good organisational skills are paramount
• Skilled in MS Office incl. good MS Excel skills
• Fully fluent in English language.
• Additional knowledge of Asian languages (Mandarin, Japanese, or Korean) is a benefit

Company Overview

Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world’s most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people.

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.