Senior Manager - Offshore Projects

The base salary for this position is dependent upon experience and location:

Location: Boston, MA

Salary range: $155,567.00 to $194,459.00

The Senior Manager - Offshore Projects (Main Electrical Equipment Package Manager) will be responsible for the delivery of the Main Electrical Equipment Package for New England Wind Project. The selected candidate in charge of the management of multi-million-dollar contracts ($800+M in NEW) to secure the delivery of the relevant assets. As such, the position will have to oversee the design, manufacturing, factory testing, shipment, onshore installation, onshore commissioning, preparation for sea transport, and offshore installation and offshore commissioning at relevant Project Sites (shipyard, onshore substation and offshore substation), and hand over of the main electrical equipment.

Main Purpose of Job

The Senior Manager - Offshore Projects 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 successful candidate will be a key member of the Project Leadership Team, the Senior Manager - Offshore Projects will be responsible for defining delivery strategies, and plans, tendering, negotiating, and managing offshore delivery contracts, planning and implementing delivery sites and logistics, leading delivery phase including management of offshore contractors and associated interfaces, and ensuring quality, best practices and excellent H&SE performance are applied.

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 manage teams working at different locations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of key work scopes within the Key Package, including co-ordination of key interfaces, management of stakeholders, maintaining compliance with development consent, supported by the relevant functions (quality, FABEX, T&I, commissioning, etc.) through the delivery phase.

• Ensure Key Package is delivered on time, to budget and quality following the highest industry practice and observing the maximum respect for Health, Safety and Environment to ensure regulatory and legal compliance.

• Implement offshore standards, procedures, tools, best practices and quality requirements for large scale Key Package, to be constructed across a number of countries.

• Ensure the delivery of Key Package is appropriate and consistent with Avangrid Renewables’ strategy and delivered according to specification, budget and timetable without compromising safety.

• Define, implement and resource the appropriate organisation structure for managing the delivery of the Key Package.

• Manage the Key Package delivery team, comprising employees working within several countries throughout Europe (UK, Germany, France, Spain…) and USA to ensure project execution with intelligent and cost-effective resourcing.

• Co-ordinating with internal stakeholders including legal, commercial, financial, technical and corporate functions.

• Oversee hand over the Key Package from delivery to O&M to secure long term investment value and minimise risks.

• Provide input on appropriate bid levels / programme strategies / commercial strategies / commercial agreements relative to the Key Package to maximise value. Provide key input in the preparation of investment dossiers for all funding requests for the Key Package to secure investment support at best value.

• Provide key and strategic delivery advice, risk assessment and recommendations to the business.

• Acting as a key member of the Project Management Committee(s), together with the Project Director and the rest of Senior Managers/Package Managers, where key project and strategic decisions (Technical and Commercial) are considered and approved to secure investment best value.

• Work with the HSE team to develop HSE strategy for Key Package delivery and ensure a high standard of health and safety awareness is maintained.

• Carry out any other duties as directed by the Department Manager or EPC Director.

• Providing key knowledge, lessons learned and support Key Package throughout the whole life cycle of a project