Senior Mechanical Engineer - Wind Turbine Technology

Can you help us control technical risks in mechanical wind turbine design?

Join us and become Senior Mechanical Engineer in the WTG Mechanical department which serves as technical specialists for blade, hub, nacelle, tower and davit crane mechanics. The department contributes throughout our value chain from qualification of wind turbine suppliers over wind farm development and construction to service and maintenance.

The department is part of Wind Power which has 1400 employees and is one of four business units in DONG Energy. Wind Power is the world’s largest developer and operator of offshore wind power, and we use our unique knowledge in all phases of our wind farm projects. During the last 20 years, we have developed and constructed the largest portfolio of offshore wind farms in Northern Europe.

You may choose freely to be based either at one of our Danish offices in Skærbæk near Fredericia or in Gentofte in the Greater Copenhagen area or alternatively at our office in Hamburg in Germany on local terms and conditions. However, you should expect some travelling in relation to your work.

Areas of responsibility
You will join a team of wind turbine mechanical specialists who support the business in a number of areas, including technical business risk analysis, specification and negotiation of technical requirements and qualification of suppliers and their products.

Moreover, you will conduct manufacturing and installation surveillance during project construction as well as root cause analysis on failed components and systems during operation. Your technical focus area is on the delivery of wind turbines and davit cranes in our construction projects. You help negotiate the turbine supply agreement and follow up on risks in relation to quality and delivery of mechanical components during the construction phase until commissioning.

You have a close collaboration with the technical project manager for the wind turbine delivery and the technical specialists for the individual components among the colleagues in WTG Mechanical.

Furthermore, your key duties will be to:

• control that the supply agreements for wind turbine and davit crane are aligned with project specific requirements and interfaces
• conduct technical audits of wind turbine supplier, davit crane supplier and their sub-suppliers including first article inspections and factory acceptance tests. Support to our supervisors and quality auditors
• conduct technical audits during pre-assembly, installation and commissioning for wind turbine and davit crane
• follow up on technical flaws during manufacturing and installation while providing status reports to project management and stakeholders
• build specialist competence in the design and manufacturing of one or more of the individual mechanical components in the wind turbine and the davit crane.

Your profile
You have a bachelor or master's degree in mechanical engineering. In addition, you have a good analytical and practical experience within mechanical machine components covering cast iron, steel and composite materials, manufacturing processes, degradation mechanisms, testing and verification. Moreover, you have some experience with system design of wind turbines and their installation.

You can translate technical observations into detailed project risk descriptions, and you are able to the actions needed to mitigate risks and coordinate these actions in a team.

As a person, your good communication skills allow you to achieve results in teams with many stakeholders. With a keen eye for details, you focus on adding value and creating results. As we operated in an international market, it is essential that you speak and write English fluently.

We offer
An excellent opportunity to control some of the important mechanical risks in wind power. This is a unique and challenging job where you have every opportunity to develop your skills, when you help to carry out some of the world's largest offshore wind projects.

In DONG Energy Wind Power, we have a high level of expertise and many complex and challenging work tasks. We work goal-oriented and efficiently with some of the world’s largest offshore wind power projects, and we are committed to reducing the cost of electricity.

Contact us
Please do not hesitate to contact Jakob Wedel-Heinen, Manager of WTG Mechanical, on telephone +45 9955 5094 if you want to know more about the position.

We look forward to receiving your application, CV and diplomas as electronic files, via the "Ansøg" link, by 15 April 2015.

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