Job details

Location
Republic of Korea
Salary
£72k - 78k per year
Job Type
Permanent
Ref
229436
Posted
about 1 year ago

Offshore Wind technical manager 

Spencer Ogden is looking for a highly motivated and skilful professional to strengthen its client's offshore wind project development team in Korea.

Role description:

· Manage the technical issues and communicate with the technical team , e.g. management of all technical functions and work; focal point for technical discussions and its commercial impact; resource planning

· Responsibility for definition, optimization and integration of the project design with due regard to the project commercial drivers, schedule and budget;

· Manage the engineering input into the Project Description, Pre-FEED, permits and statutory consents during the project development phase

· Deliver the project design basis at appropriate stages through the project

· Promote a consistent and inherently safe design, and ensure that design safety risks are demonstrable. Log any residual hazards for future transfer to the relevant project phases.

· Ensure design integrity, compliance and technical risk management in line with applicable regulations.

· Input to negotiation strategy with suppliers, creation of necessary pre-bid tender documents and its offers, approval of engineering documents and invitation to tender technical specifications

· Oversight and responsibility for maintenance of data about project site conditions and GIS information

· Development supporting of project schedule, technical risk evaluation & mitigation and oversight of technical LCOE & innovation measures.

· Support collation of relevant cost inputs for technical elements of the project (e.g. CAPEX and OPEX);

· Contribute to bid strategy and development of technical requirements of initial work packages such as; preliminary site investigations, technical solution scope (incl. options like battery, green hydrogen, innovation).

Desired qualifications:

· Engineering (civil/ mechanical / electrical) or other technical university degree

· At least 5 years of relevant experience in development & construction of offshore wind or large infrastructure projects

· Strong track record in successful engineering management and good knowledge of offshore wind development areas and their interdependencies.

· Results-oriented and Commercial mindset, ability to analyse and summarize complex development topics and aggregate decision-relevant information to convey messages clearly and concisely.

· Proven experience, ability to build and develop high performance teams and to motivate, acting comfortably in cross-cultural teams, collaborating across country boundaries with a sense of diversity and inclusion

· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with people on different levels of hierarchy, different backgrounds and cultures, must be a team player.

· Excellent understanding of technical analysis and specifically of competitive drivers that can help winning projects in very competitive tender environments

· Interdisciplinary project management experience

· Sound understanding of Korean offshore wind market dynamics & market specific challenges incl. local regulation impacting technical design parameters

· High degree of specific offshore wind expertise (technical, development, project management and commercial)

· Fluent in spoken and written English and Korean