Sr. Electrical Engineer, Offshore Americas

 

RWE Offshore Wind Services, LLC, Boston, San Francisco

 

To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent

 

Functional area: Engineering 

Remuneration: Exempt

 

 

RWE Renewables is growing its US based engineering team to develop new offshore wind opportunities and deliver on its existing portfolio including its 3GW Community Offshore Wind Project in the New York Bight and our floating wind project off the coast of Umboldt Bay in Northern California.    We are now seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to assist us in progressing our North American offshore wind development projects towards construction. The Engineer will sit in RWE Renewables’ Electrical Systems & Project Engineering team, supporting the Project’s Engineering and Package Managers.  Support will be provided by technical experts in the Electrical Components team and Electrical Engineering colleagues working on similar projects worldwide.

 

Key tasks and responsibilities:

• Ensure that the highest level of health, safety, and environmental are incorporated into designs and standards
• Responsible for ensuring a robust through life design of the project’s electrical system (including transmission  substation, collection, protection, control, and metering systems). Supporting on all aspects of the HV generation and transmission system up to the connection point to the existing transmission system.
• Responsible for specification and evaluation of electrical equipment.
• Responsible for grid code compliance and interconnection requirements.
• Provide engineering technical support for power system modelling and studies
• Develop and maintain the electrical engineering standards
• Support development of engineering processes and procedures
• Reduce the levelized cost of energy through innovation
• Support the regulatory and compliance processes and requirements
• Engage with vendors and suppliers to identify project needs and programs to deliver new technologies and supply chains to enable offshore wind in the US.
• Manage engineering subcontractors’ delivery of engineering studies, reports, analysis, and engineering in early stage projects into project delivery.
• A strong focus on interface topics, for example in the onshore substation and offshore platform(s)
• Provide general and specialist engineering knowledge as needed
• Close liaison with technical experts in the Electrical Components team and Engineers working on similar projects to ensure their knowledge is effectively utilised in the projects

 

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Engineering degree from an accredited university in Electrical Engineering or relevant background Master degree preferred
• 5+ years of industry experience in relevant field
• Licensed Professional Engineer, or relevant experiences managing design and owners engineering teams
• Experience in Offshore Wind, Onshore Wind, Onshore Solar, Offshore Oil and Gas, or other large engineering infrastructure projects
• Familiar with industry codes and standards applicable to offshore wind projects
• Good communicator and excellent team player
• Ability to work in hybrid work environment (office and remote).
• Good organizational skills and experience of project management.
• Demonstrable experience of working effectively in an international business
• Willing to travel domestically and internationally.
• Fluent in spoken and written English

 

 

 

 

Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays. Eligible employees also participate in short-term incentives, in addition to salary.

RWE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

For 125 years RWE has been the source of energy for millions of people across the globe. Now we’re making all that energy green. This decade alone we’re investing €50bn into renewables and will be carbon neutral by 2040 – ten years earlier than most other global targets. This is a chance to play a key role on our journey.

Join our renewables specialists, working across the clean energy spectrum to grow our operations to 50 GW by 2030 – with some of the world’s largest on and offshore wind farms and industry-leading hydrogen initiatives. We’re also considered innovators in solar development including floating photovoltaics and agri-photovoltaics. Or add your expertis