Senior blade engineer for offshore wind farms

Would you like to take up the technical challenges of ensuring optimal service and maintenance of the blades on offshore wind farms?

Join us and become the new Senior Integrity Specialist (Blades) in the Blades team in Ørsted Operations where you’ll ensure optimal operation and maintenance of blades, be responsible for the technical management of major campaigns and failure mode analysis, and use your specialist knowledge to guide and assist junior members of the team in delivering on the team’s results. The job will also allow you a large degree of freedom and the opportunity to affect your own workday both at the office and on the site.

You’ll become part of a team that defines and updates all maintenance programmes related to the blades on the offshore wind farms. We evaluate the results of all maintenance and inspection activities, ensuring that appropriate corrective and preventive actions are completed. These steps enable us to secure asset integrity throughout the fleet of offshore wind farms.

Your key tasks will be to

• manage and follow up on technical issues during operation to ensure future integrity and that repairs are performed in the optimal way
• provide technical assessment of blade inspections and evaluate requirements for repair work
• manage discussions with supplier specialists regarding failure modes
• actively engage with other parts of Operations on cross-departmental projects.

Furthermore, you’ll have the opportunity to be involved in the commercial evaluations on different inspection and repair methods, covering the technical perspectives.

Your competences include that you

• preferably have a bachelor's or master's degree in mechanical/composite engineering or have equivalent engineering knowledge from a practical background
• have multiple years of experience from WTG blade manufacturing and/or operational experience from wind turbine operators
• have extensive experience with blade repair processes and maintenance programs for composite structures
• have experience with failure mode analysis, and ideally have experience with basic Lean Six Sigma tools
• speak and write English fluently.

As a person, your good communication skills allow you to achieve results in teams with many stakeholders. With a keen eye for detail and a proactive and systematic approach to your work tasks, you focus on adding value, creating results and enjoy solving complex and challenging tasks. It’ll be viewed as an advantage if you’ve experience from within the wind turbine industry. It’ll also be viewed as an advantage if you’re fluent in Danish.

Working at Ørsted
To be the frontrunner in the green energy transformation, we invest significantly in innovation and empower our employees to help shape the renewable energy technologies of the future. We cultivate a collaborative, dynamic and diverse work environment and encourage career-long learning and development so our people can realise their full potential.

Would you like to help shape the renewable technologies of the future?
Send your application to us as soon as possible and no later than 27 May 2018 at 23.59 CET, as we’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis.

Please don’t hesitate to contact Troels Rahbek Lindhard, Head of Blades, by telephone on +45 9955 6319 if you’d like to know more about the position.

Preferably, you’ll be based at our office in Skærbæk near Fredericia, alternatively it’s possible to be located at our office in Gentofte in the Greater Copenhagen area. You should expect some travelling in relation to your work.

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