Operations Project Manager for Operations Development Projects

Would you like to take up the challenges of driving Operations’ scope and commercial deliverables for future offshore wind farms?

Join us and become Operations Project Manager/Operations Senior Project Lead in the Operations Development Projects department in Wind Power. Being anchored in the Operations Commercial area, the department is responsible for all Operations & Maintenance (O&M) activities and deliverables during the early development phase of an offshore wind farm (including Operations’ deliverables to Final Investment Decisions).

The department is part of Wind Power which has 1800 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 turbine projects. During the last 20 years, we have developed and constructed the largest portfolio of offshore wind farms in Northern Europe, and we are expanding with international activities in the US and Asia-Pacific.

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

Your key tasks will be to 

• be responsible for driving the strategic Operations’ set-up for projects in the early development phase 
• develop the O&M scope and concepts and be responsible for the development of OPEX cases for future offshore wind farms in the early development phase, including the Final Investment Decision (FID) 
• act as the Operations focal point and drive the collaboration with other project stakeholders during the early development phase 
• ensure that the lifetime OPEX model assumptions and yield profiles are robust and that all decisions are made with the input of necessary stakeholders and supported by a solid business case 
• project manage the scope and ensure timely delivery of Operations’ deliverables for FID (and towards the beginning of the construction/execution phase).

Furthermore, you will oversee assumptions behind the lifetime OPEX model and yield profiles, ensuring the wind farm OPEX and yield profiles are reflective of asset-specific concepts and risks. You will be responsible for ensuring that synergies with existing or potential future offshore wind farms are considered in order to reduce LCoE. Your duties will also include preparing and presenting decision materials to senior management, ensuring risks are quantified and proposals are supported by solid business justification principles. Finally, you will be tasked with managing dependencies to other packages of the wind farm including risks and scope changes, developing the O&M scope of work and budget for the construction/execution phase. You will manage communications with project team members as well as internal and external project stakeholders, and you lead the hand-over to the O&M project manager responsible for the construction/execution phase.

Your qualifications and core competences include that you 

• have a degree in business, economics, or engineering  
• have an excellent understanding of business case principles 
• have 7+ years of professional experience including relevant project management experience 
• have work experience from a commercial role in a technical industry such as energy, infrastructure, or heavy industry coupled with experience of working in cross-cultural and virtual teams. A background from M&A or management consulting would also be relevant 
• have experience in developing and justifying project concepts, scope and costs.

You are also expected to have an understanding of operational and/or project environments, possess solid people leadership and conflict resolution capabilities as well as have an independent, organised and structured work approach, and your ability to multitask is essential.

Moreover, you demonstrate strong self-drive, motivation and resilience coupled with a positive mind-set. Furthermore, you have strong people-influencing skills, presentation and communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across cultures. It is essential that you have the ability to navigate in a complex organisation without direct supervision and can successfully build and use a personal network to achieve your objectives. In addition, it is essential that you have good MS Office skills. As we operate in an international environment, it is essential that you speak and write English fluently.

We offer  
A unique and challenging job. Through your work, you will contribute to fighting climate change and oil dependency as you will be participating actively in the development and implementation of modern energy solutions. You will have substantial freedom with responsibility, a competitive salary and an informal and attractive working environment. We have an active employee policy which supports your career throughout the various phases of your working life. 
  
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 projects, and we are committed to reducing the cost of electricity.

Contact us 
For Denmark, please do not hesitate to contact Moritz Ludwig, Manager of Operations Development Projects, on telephone +49 17228 31983 if you want to know more about the position.

For the United Kingdom, please do not hesitate to contact the Recruitment Specialist by email on ukrecruitment@dongenergy.co.uk.

For Germany, please do not hesitate to contact Milena Jägermann, Senior HR Consultant in P&D Germany, by telephone on +49 (0)40 181310-847.

We look forward to receiving your application, CV and diplomas as electronic files as soon as possible and no later than 30 April 2017 as we will be conducting interviews on a continuous basis.

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All UK based positions will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening, further details will be given at offer stage. 

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