Structure 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

• Provide O&M engineering support, 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.

• Define the scope of the periodic structures inspection campaigns in the wind farms, above and below water, as long as all the necessary paperwork to carry out those inspections/maintenance activities (procedures, task cards/task registers, frecuency of inspections, etc).

• Coordinate the related maintenance activities with the offshore site technical teams, attend and supervise part of these activities/inspections to make sure that those inspections are being carried out properly, timely, according to the specifications/procedures and with the required quality level, as long as the compliance of the applicable H&S rules. 

• Review and approve the technical reports provided by contractors with the outcome of the inspections and take those outcomes into consideration when updating the inspection/maintenance plans.

• Liase and coordinate with the appointed certifiers whenever they have to be involved.

• Implement required actions and prepare necessary reports to comply with regulations applying in each country/region where the wind farm is located.

• Engage and liase with engineering companies as necessary in order to improve the condition and monitoring of the structures in the windfarms, leading technical projects as required.

• Prepare Scope of Works for any structures related tendering process, support the Contracts team during the tendering process

• Evaluate O&M solutions /risk levels affecting technical integrity or asset performance and give 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.

• Implement and supervise the required corrective and preventive maintenance activities to maintain/recover the assets availability/reliability either on his/her own or through contractors.

• Define, alongside the new Offshore projects teams the best technical solutions for the new offshore projects under development and construction to guarantee the best performance and maintainability condition after the Commercial Operation Date starts. 

• Coordinate the maintenance strategies with the other Offshore O&M Hubs (UK and USA) to standardize solutions.

• Manage efficiently the contracts maintenance to strive to reduce the maintenance costs and contrubute  to maximize the business EBITDA.

• Implement offshore standards, procedures, tools, best practices and quality requirements.

• 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)

EXPERIENCE

•  2 years of experience in structures design, inspection and maintenance activities, preferably in the  wind or oil and gas offshore sectors 

• 2 years of experience in contract management.

• Knowledge of H&S and environmental legislation associated with marine/offshore operations projects

• GWO certificates for offshore works 

• Certain level of fitness for offshore works supported with medical certificate according to AWMF guideline

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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