Lead Electrical Engineer

Job Title: Lead Electrical Engineer

Office Location: Boston, MA

Work type:Office

AWESOME BENEFITS + RELOCATION + SIGN ON BONUS

SALARY : The base salary range is $ 128,276 to $ 160,345

Job Summary:

The AVANGRID RENEWABLES Lead Offshore Wind Operations Electrical Engineer reports directly to the Manager – Offshore Operations Electrical Engineering and focuses on assisting with the delivery of operational requirements in the US Offshore business.

The Lead Offshore Wind Operations Electrical Engineer will be part of a team responsible for defining O&M Strategies and plans, tendering (technical), negotiating (technical) and being technical lead for small-scale offshore O&M campaigns/installations including management of contractors and associated interfaces, and ensuring quality, best practices and excellent H&SE performance are applied. The role will also be working with Contractors and multiple departments within Offshore Operations and Global Services to ensure that Avangrid’s long term asset value and production revenue is maximized.  

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support O&M activities for operating and developing offshore wind farms, with a focus on the electrical systems (HV substation equipment, LV substation systems including relays, POI with external transmission substation), including troubleshooting and working together with the site team to develop optimal and cost-effective solutions following industry best practice and observing the maximum respect for Health, Safety, and the Environment to ensure regulatory and legal compliance.

• Implement offshore standards, procedures, tools, best practices, and quality requirements of O&M requirements and needs for electrical substations and POI connections.

• Provide advice on operational solution/risk levels affecting technical integrity or asset performance and make technical recommendations to Project Managers based on the analyzed asset integrity status, production, and other KPIS to ensure that cost-effective solutions are identified, fully evaluated, and the risk profile is fully understood.

• Support the coordination of the EPC interface and Project Services Engineering Team to ensure the operational requirements are identified, fully evaluated, and actioned during project execution, focusing on electrical substations (on and offshore)

• Ensure that all assessments, advice, and recommendations are fully documented in accordance with all internal procedures and industry best practices, and that sufficient technical and commercial due diligence (whether internal or external) exists to support those business decisions.

• Develop technical specifications for maintenance agreements.

• Provide key and strategic advice, assessment, and recommendations to the business giving input and support to the projects throughout the whole life cycle (development to decommissioning).

• Provide input on appropriate bid levels / commercial strategies and commercial agreements relative to projects.

• Ensure recommendations for improvement are fed into lessons learned regarding offshore wind farm operation and Maintenance for sharing across the different Offshore Projects.

• Perform as-needed site visits to perform data gathering or oversee project deployment.

• Travel will be required approximately 10% of the time; on-call support may be required.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical/Power System Engineering, or equivalent technical field.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with power systems

• Working knowledge of relevant areas of technical specialty (eg, HV equipment, LV system, batteries, SCADA, Data and Fault analysis).

• Functional understanding of elementary diagrams, relay settings, and protective coordination.

• Experienced and understanding of technical due diligence

• Eligible to work in the US

• Flexible to travel around the US and overseas

• Ability to work in high and medium voltage substation and collector system facilities including offshore assets.

• Ability to climb a 100+m wind turbine.  Work may involve inclement weather, electrical hazards, climbing turbines and ladders, and occasionally lifting up to 50 pounds.

• Ability to complete GWO basic safety and sea survival training.

• Ability to complete HUET training

• Ability to operate a motor vehicle and travel by air.  A current driver’s license is required.

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