Senior Meteorologist - Offshore

Title: Senior Meteorologist - Offshore 

Location: Boston MA , CT, NY , TX

Office/Remote option available

Salary: The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from $120k to $132k

Job Summary:

The Wind and Metocean – Lead Engineer is a critical role within the Offshore Business focusing on the delivery of one Key Package. As such, the individual will be working as part of a multicultural and multinational team in the management of contracts worth more than a billion dollars. The candidate will be responsible for defining and implementing robust and cost-effective engineering strategies and plans, supporting technical management of $ multi-million contracts and delivery phase including management of multiple offshore contractors and associated interfaces, defining company and business engineering standards and technical acceptance criteria, and ensuring quality, best practices and excellent H&SE performance are applied. The candidate will be managing engineering activities and decisions from a senior engineering perspective across the offshore project portfolio.

The individual will be working as part of Avangrid Renewables Offshore Business in the US but will be oversighting activities in many countries across Europe and the rest of the world.  The position may require frequent travel to various locations overseas and during development, contracting and delivery of the key package. Furthermore, the individual should be prepared to coordinate work with teams working at different locations.

Position Specifics

The Wind and Metocean – Lead Engineer will be responsible to:
•    Deliver state of the art expertise as technical lead in marine climatology, providing metocean inputs fundamental for the design of offshore assets, across all stages of the different offshore wind Projects: development, feasibility study, FEED, detailed design, construction, and operations.
•    Manage metocean measurement campaigns for development, construction, and generation.
•    Manage works with key external consultants, suppliers, and partners to deliver key advice and compliance, including Wind Turbine OEMs and Foundation designer.
•    Undertake analytical work, including preliminary assessment of site conditions and adverse weather downtime assessments; ensuring metocean data are analyzed and interpreted correctly to guarantee the durability and stability of structures and the safety of offshore operations.
•    Ensure the reliability of metocean data by managing the metocean database throughout the lifetime of a project.
•    Maintain full awareness of the latest technical and commercial developments and identify suitable new technology that has the potential to reduce cost and risk or improve safety.
•    Representing Avangrid- Iberdrola on task forces and research programs at industry level.
•    Recommending appropriate technical strategies and delivering technical input to commercial agreements and contracts to ensure project risks related metocean conditions are mitigated.
•    Provide detailed metocean conditions information to serve as input to design basis of the different project packages: WTGs, Foundations, OSS, O&M, etc.
•    Development of metocean conditions analysis solutions for cross-project implementation.
•    Collaborate with construction and O&M teams to provide ad-hoc support where necessary and ensure Metocean Conditions requirements are specified and delivered.
•    Manage the certification process related Metocean Conditions with independent verification bodies (where applicable) to reduce design risk and enhance asset value.
•    Assist Wind Resource Manager with wind and energy resource assessment activities for early and mid-stage projects, especially for floating wind projects.
•    Assist Wind Resource Manager with compiling summary wind, metocean, and energy documentation and data for internal and external stakeholders for FID, RFP bids, and financing.
 

Responsibilities:

•    Lead Engineer for a scope of work within Avangrid offshore projects leading technical assessment and recommendations to ensure delivery of a scope of work within time, to budget and quality following industry best practice and observing the maximum diligence for HSQE requirements.
•    Implement the required engineering processes throughout the project lifecycle phases, whilst liaising with the project team to maximise lessons learned and best practices.
•    Provide key strategic Engineer technical advice, assessment, and recommendations to the offshore business in support of a growing offshore wind pipeline to ensure delivery of business strategic investment plan within time, to budget and quality following the highest industry practice and observing the maximum respect for Health, Safety, and the Environm