High Voltage Cables Senior Engineer

ABOUT IBERDROLA

With more than 170 years of history, Iberdrola is a world leader in energy. The group is active in Europe (France, Spain, United Kingdom, Portugal, Germany, Italy and Greece), the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Australia and is developing in Japan, Ireland, Sweden and Poland.

Iberdrola has made the bold and visionary choice to anticipate the energy transition and the growing energy needs for the world of tomorrow. Every day, the 38,000 women and men of the group unite to fight climate change by offering a clean, reliable and innovative economic model.

ABOUT IBERDROLA FRANCE

Iberdrola is located in France since 20 years, with its head office in Paris - La Défense and its offices in regions. In addition to the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project, the company is present in the fields of onshore wind power, photovoltaic solar energy and the retail energy market. We have developed a long-term investment strategy throughout the country which will enable us to achieve an installed capacity of 614 MW in 2023.

We are investing heavily in renewable energy, smart grids, large-scale energy storage and digital transformation.

OUR MISSION

We are driving the energy transition towards a sustainable model through investments in renewable energy, smart grids, and large-scale energy storage. With our commitment to clean energy, we are one of the lowest emitters globally and an international reference for our contribution to combating climate change and sustainable development.

Our culture focuses on create an inclusive and collaborative environment, respecting individuals and their differences. All qualified candidates will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, gender, or gender identity.

RESPONSABILITIES AND FUNCTIONS

Technical integrity :

• Define the technical requirements, improvements and the maintenance strategy for the electrical equipment with main focus on the high voltage cables (HV cables) in the Continental Europe O&M Offshore business in order to maximize the availability, reliability and efficiency of the assets, as per the best industry practices.
• Provide support to O&M engineering, assistance and recommendations to ensure delivery of mid to large scale O&M works within time, to budget and quality following industry best practice and observing the maximum respect for Health, Safety and the Environment to ensure regulatory and legal compliance
• Identify and claim to the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) all the technical defects found in the Electrical equipment with main focus on the HV cables and participate actively alongside the Iberdrola Contract Manager in the claim process.
• Identify the technical risks in the Business as a consequence of the condition of the Electrical equipment with main focus on the HV cables components and define the necessary actions to eliminate or mitigate these risks as much as reasonably possible. Evaluate O&M solutions / risk levels affecting technical integrity or asset performance and provide mitigation recommendations to ensure that cost effective O&M solutions are identified, fully evaluated and the risk profile can be reduced appropriately by the O&M teams.
• Assess the technical issues/incidents related to the Electrical equipment with main focus on the HV cables performing troubleshooting in order to determine the root causes and make sure that all necessary actions and design modifications to prevent this incident from happening again are put in place.
• Monitor and supervise the preventive/corrective activities carried out in the Electrical equipment with main focus on the HV cables, which are required to guarantee/recover the wind farm availability. Make sure that the required works quality and the conditions in the contract are fulfilled.
• Produce the necessary procedures in order to guarantee that the maintenance activities are fully deployed. Implement offshore standards, procedures, tools, best practices and quality requirements
• Ensure that all assessment, advice and recommendations are fully documented in accordance with all internal procedures and industry best practice, and that sufficient technical and commercial due diligence (whether internal or external) exists to support those business decisions
• Support Design Reviews, FAT and SAT’s activities for HV & MV cables (33kV – 400kV)
• Identify and manage Critical Spares (Cable & Accessories) to manage risk exposure

Regulation and Legal requirements :

• Make sure that the applying legal requirements affecting the Electrical equipment with main focus on the HV cables are completely fulfilled as per the conditions defined by the local official bodies in the country where the Wind Farm stands.
• Work with the HSE team to develop HSE strategy for O&M works and ensure a high standard of health and safety awareness is maintained.

Coordination :

Coordination of activities and standardization of the best practices in the Global O&M Offshore

• Extend the lessons learnt and the best practices to the other Hubs within the O&M Offshore Business. Assist and coordinate with employees working within a number of countries throughout Europe (UK, Germany, France, Spain…) and USA to ensure project execution with intelligent and cost-effective resourcing.
• Coordinate the maintenance strategies for electrical systems with the other Offshore O&M Hubs (UK and USA) so that uniformed, global & standardized solutions are implemented
• Coordinate the execution of the maintenance activities with the local Iberdrola Site staff based in the Wind Farm in order to make sure that these maintenance activities are carried out safely, timely and with the required quality.
• Regarding the new wind farm projects (under development and construction) define, alongside the project team and the Principal Manager for Transmission Equipment in Operations Engineering, the best solutions to be implemented so that Operation and Maintenance activities will be as efficient as possible once the Wind Farm enters into the commercial operation phase. Provide key and strategic advice, assessment and recommendations to the business giving input and support to the projects throughout the whole life cycle (development to decommissioning)
• Coordinate the Electrical equipment with main focus on the HV cables maintenance strategy with the other Hubs within the Global Offshore O&M Business, i.e. UK and USA, standardizing global approaches.
• Manage the personnel under self remit, identify their training needs and put in place the necessary actions to fulfill those gaps
• Interact, within the scope of own responsabilities, with the Global Technical Services, OEM, Offshore Site teams, grid operators, certifiers and regulatory bodies in order to deploy a highest efficient and technical capability relationship .

Contracts and Procurement :

• Provide input on appropriate bid levels / commercial strategies and commercial agreements relative to projects. Provide key input in the preparation of investment dossiers for all funding requests for projects
• Produce technical specifications (scope of works) and technical evaluations of the bidders as required, playing an active role in the procurement procceses so that the most technically qualified providers are selected.
• Manage effectively the assigned maintenance contracts, contributing to maximize the financial business results throughout the reduction of the operating costs and the execution of high quality maintenance activities

EXPERIENCE

• Considerable experience in HVAC & HVDC cables design or manufacturing (particularly subsea cables)

• Experience of contracting, engineering design or deliver

• HV cable installation, testing and maintenance (subsea and above sea inspections)

• Experience in HV joints/termination and connections

• Renewables/O&G/Marine experience

• Some track record in operation and maintenance delivery

• Engineering industry, academia or consultancy

• Part of global teams for multitask, international projects

• Management of contract.

• Working on offshore wind farms.

• Desirable knowledge of H&S and environmental legislation associated with marine/offshore operations projects ​

LANGUAGES

• English : Bilingual/ native
• French : Fluent
• Spanish is a plus

Mobility Information

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country.

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