Provide safe and healthy work conditions to prevent injuries, security breaches, property damage, and environmental pollution, at minimum in compliance with HSSE legislation.
Manage and coach the O&M Readiness and O&M Global Asset Management teams and develop them to deliver the required capacity in line with the BMS and O&M operations model.
Prepare the O&M organization to support future growth in line with company strategy.
Ensure an appropriate pool of O&M resources for current commitments and future opportunities while maintaining tight budget control.
Prepare the company’s own SLA commitments in recognition of stakeholder arrangements.
Deliver strategic guidance to support the best possible operations of wind farms in the operational portfolio.
Ensure appropriate O&M representation during early investment evaluations, project development, and project construction in support of the CIO organization.
Ensure coordinated O&M representation in projects in pre-development, development, and execution in support of the CPO organization.
Take stakeholder governance positions under the DoA mandate and represent the company in alignment with its collective guidance.
Drive operational reporting for SPVs for internal and external reporting needs, including formal monthly operational reporting, quarterly reporting to committees and boards, and input to other stakeholder reporting requirements.
Safeguard company knowledge-building and the continuous development and retention of high-performing and high-potential individuals.
Support R&I initiatives with resources and strategic guidance to incorporate critical knowledge and keep the company at the forefront of offshore wind O&M best practices.
Take positions in relevant industry groups to maintain the company’s interests and keep it informed of business developments.
Drive relevant ad hoc corporate projects and analyses, such as the Business Management System, O&M operations model, and Business System Analysis and Developments.
Manage the team’s support for internal and external audits.
Identify and develop new business opportunities through new or existing partnerships and create additional value for portfolio projects.
Report directly to the COO and, as needed, to the wider leadership team.
Join us as we work to unlock the value of offshore wind! JERA Nex bp is a new joint venture between JERA, Japan’s largest power generation company, and bp, one of the world’s leading energy companies. Established to unlock the potential of offshore wind across the globe, our talented team, exciting pipeline and solid capital commitment give us the potential to become one of the world’s most successful offshore wind companies.
We entered the market with a portfolio of operational and development assets, alongside the resources, capabilities and resilience to deliver offshore wind energy at scale.
Hiring Manager for this role: Kristof Verlinden - COO
Why this role matters
The Head of the O&M Readiness and Global Asset Management is a member of the L2 Leadership and reports directly to the COO of JERA Nex bp, It can be expected this function to also hold certain positions in project governance such as steerco or boards in name of the company. The mandate is further described per the company DoA and its own governance.
Flanking, and in in coordination with, the partner role of O&M Operations you`ll hold the responsibility of the strategical decisions on how O&M is to function in support of the company`s ambitions in the field of offshore wind. You’ll ensure the processes are created and maintained in alignment with the other business partners in the company. You’ll ensure an organization is designed to deliver the expected services while maintaining a cost control attitude.
O&M Readiness will be a partner for every project from earliest engagement in Bus-Dev or M&A, over the project development, Design and installation. But also, during the operational phase support will be foreseen in strategical advice all the way through to lifetime extension, repowering or decommissioning. With Responsibility for the OPEX and O&M Strategy and the development in the project phase of the required O&M Set-ups and contracts the Readiness SPOC embedded in a project will assure the needed O&M Resources are made available also to support such works as well as to act as an internal validator. Further will the readiness organization set up all as for the correct intended functioning during the operational phase. The scope of O&M readiness activities is to be aligned further in the project organization as to assure the best allocation of services is provided but always in line with the handover process towards project execution.
Acting as “owner” representative the Global Asset Management function will assure that the values and business are monitored and protected for project in operation. This Equally for project where the company holds operational responsibilities as for the projects where such is partially or fully foreseen by the partners. By validating a number of KPI`s and assuring targeted reporting, visibility is created on the status of the operational assets to all internal and external stakeholders in close coordination with the finance responsibilities as well as further stakeholder management.
There is a natural collaboration between both functionalities where strategical guidance is to support the projects portfolio management as well as where the project portfolio management will drive the strategical guidance. This balance should not only focus on the economic outcome but shall also guide the other values the company sees as crucial for its projects as there are HSSE, Risk Management, compliance and others.
As part of their role, all Heads of Departments contribute to defining the organization`s vision and long-term strategy based on a deep understanding of political, social, business, market and finance trends. They use their insights to lead and influence change at a strategic level across the organization. Guided by the company values, they are an inspirational role model for the entire organization.
In this role you will:
The Head of O&M Readiness and GAM takes on the following responsibilities:
· Provides for safe and healthy work conditions to prevent injuries, avoid security breaches, damage and/or pollution to the environment, as a minimum conform the HSSE legislation.
· Manages and coaches the teams in charge of O&M Readiness and O&M GAM and develop them to deliver the required capacity in line with the BMS and O&M ops model.
· Prepares the O&M organization to cope with future growth in line with the company`s strategy.
· Ensures the correct pool of O&M resources to handle current commitments and future opportunities with a tight budget conscious attitude.
· Prepare the Company`s own SLA commitments giving recognition to the stakeholder’s arrangements.
· Deliver strategical guidance towards the best possible operations of the windfarms in the operational portfolio.
· Assures correct O&M representation in the stages of early investment evaluations, project developments, and project construction in support of the CIO organization.
· Assures the coordinated O&M representation in projects in (pre-) development and execution in support of the CPO organization.
· Ready to take up stakeholder governance positions per DoA mandate and represent the company in alignment with the company`s collected guidance.
· Drives the Operational reporting of the SPV`s for internal and external reporting needs. This includes formalized monthly operational reporting, Quarterly reporting to committees and boards and assure input for all further stakeholder reporting requirements.
· Safeguards the knowledge build-up for the company and the continuous development and retention of high-performing and high potential individuals.
· Supports a number of R&I initiatives with resources and strategy guidance to incorporate critical knowledge in the company to stay in the forefront of offshore wind O&M best practices.
· Takes where relevant, position in a number of key industry groups to maintain the company`s interests and to assure we remain at the forefront of the latest business developments.
· Is involved in and drives ad hoc corporate projects and analyses (e.g. Business Management System, O&M Ops model, Business System Analysis and Developments,….)
· Manages the team in supporting internal and external audits.
· Strategically identifies and develops new business opportunities through new or existing partnerships and creates additional value for the projects in the portfolio.
· Reports directly to the COO and ad-hoc the wider leadership team.