Job title: Installation Manager

Contract type: Permanent

Percentage: 100%

Location: London

Employer: Vattenfall AB

Reference: RW-00199

Closing date: 2012-10-07

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Wind Turbine Installation Manager

Vattenfall is Europe’s fifth largest electricity generator and the largest generator of heat and operates in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Poland, the Benelux countries as well as in the UK. Our strategy is to reduce emissions from power generation and we have a road map for achieving climate neutrality by 2050. Investment in wind power is an important cornerstone for delivering our road map. We are building nine wind farms in six countries 2009-2011, both onshore and offshore, and will double our electricity generation from wind power by 2011. Vattenfall Wind Power has approximately 270 employees around Europe.

In the UK, we own and operate the 300MW Thanet and 90MW Kentish Flats wind farms as well as the Edinbane wind farm and are part way through the construction of the 150MW Ormonde project, are planning an extension to our Kentish Flats wind farm and are involved in a proposed offshore wind demonstration centre in Aberdeen. In joint venture with Scottish Power Renewables, we have been granted the rights to develop the Round 3 East Anglia Wind Farm with a potential up to 7,200GW of offshore wind capacity We are developing approximately ten onshore wind farms in Scotland.

Overall Purpose:

The Wind Turbine Installation Manager role will be working as part of the joint venture Wind Turbine Package team with close liaison with the Construction Management team and Installation and Logistics Package. This role will participate in a range of activities working towards the procurement and installation of the project’s wind turbines. Successful candidates should have 5 years+ experience in offshore installation and logistics, including some experience of installing offshore wind turbines.

Responsibilities
• Assess the supplier’s installation and logistics proposals against the specified requirements;
• Review and contribute to the drafting of the project Employer’s Requirements for the turbine delivery;
• Work with the Installation and Logistic package and Construction Management team to define an optimum construction strategy taking into account the wider project deliver programme;
• Support the negotiations process regarding any installation and logistics matter ensuring ‘best value’ for the project;
• Deliver a detailed division of responsibilities matrix for the package on the basis of the existing high-level interface matrix;
• Define a detailed risk register for the package relating to the installation and logistics; and
• Engage with the Installation and Logistics Package team to provide turbine specific input regarding ports and associated requirements.


Qualifications / skills
Candidates for this position should to have significant technical and commercial experience in developing and delivering successful installation and logistics strategies for offshore wind turbines.

General requirements include:
• Team player with installation and logistics experience, possessing the ability to support and influence over a wide network of co-worker relationships within a joint venture environment.
• General engineering, technical or commercial qualification, graduate level or equivalent.
• Support all commercial aspects in tendering and contracting phase.
• Excellent communication skills being applied within the commercial team.
• Prior exposure to the drafting and negotiation of conditions of contract strongly preferred.


Location:
This role will be based in London. The position may require travelling within Europe.

Qualifications and Skills
• Academic degree (Bachelor or Master): in engineering based subject such as: Mechanical or the equivalent
• IT literate with a good ability to operate MS Office systems and other
• IT based project management software

Location
London, the position will require travel to various site locations both in UK and internationally

Energy is our contribution to quality of life – day after day. With over 40,000 co-workers Vattenfall provides comprehensive electricity and heating offerings to several million customers in northern Europe. For the work ahead we need people who are fully dedicated to our customers and to a sustainable society – people like you.

We look forward to your application!

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Vattenfall

är en av Europas största elproducenter och den största värmeproducenten. Vi levererar el, värme och gas till 15,5 miljoner privat- och företagskunder i Sverige, Danmark, Finland, Holland, Tyskland och Storbritannien.
Vi arbetar med alla delar i värdekedjan – produktion, distribution och försäljning. Vår energimix består av sex energikällor: biomassa, kol, kärnkraft, naturgas, vatten- och vindkraft.

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