(Senior) Specialist for Offshore Wind Resource

7 months ago

Hexham, United Kingdom Vattenfall Full time

About the job

As a (Senior) Specialist for Offshore Wind Resource & Production, your main tasks and responsibilities are:

- Develop wind measurement strategies and analyse as well as document our offshore wind measurements (met-masts, floating LIDARS, etc.).
- Evaluate and document wind turbine performance based on supplier input and/or based on measurements.
- Generate wind farm energy yield assessments utilizing both low and high fidelity modelling approaches.
- Work in close cooperation with our technical project management and associated project team.
- Understand and implement learnings generated from our post-construction assessments.
- Disseminate knowledge within the department and ensure learnings find their way into our best practise guidelines.
- Take responsibility for the relevant technical parts within the wind turbine tender process.

Biggest challenges for this role
There is a lot of room to shape the future. You will analyse project sites across the North and Baltic Sea with all their associated intricacies. Working within the confines of tight project deadlines while continually improving our way of working will be a challenge, but equally rewarding. You will work in an international environment, Vattenfall offers a wide variety of different cultures, talents and colleagues in different countries.

Location
Hamburg or Amsterdam

**Profile**:
Your profile as an (Senior) Offshore Wind Resource & Production Specialist

For this position we look for someone with:

- A University degree in a relevant scientific discipline.
- Experience with a wind farm developer, wind turbine manufacturer, wind resource consultancy group, within a comparable industrial sector or at a relevant academic institution.
- Good understanding of maritime boundary layer flows and wind turbine operations.
- A good understanding of offshore wind park economics.
- High proficiency with coding in Python.
- Good proficiency with wind industry standard analysis software (e.g. Windographer, Openwind, WindPRO, etc.).
- A basic understanding of meso-scale modelling and CFD modelling of offshore wakes.
- Fluency in English, both oral and written.
- You complete these with the following personal skills:

- A committed person with a high degree of flexibility and self-motivation.
- Resilience and determination to master tight deadlines.
- A strong team player with ability to clearly communicate complex topics to non-specialists and to function well in an international team environment.
- Consider yourself a lifelong learner full of curiosity.
- Strong analytical skills and an innovative mind set.
- Well organised with a structured work approach

Additional information

**Offer**:
Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.

More Information

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

About the company

Do you want to contribute to a fossil free future by developing offshore wind power plants?

You have the opportunity to work within the Business Area (BA) Wind. BA Wind is responsible for the development, construction and operation of wind power assets. We manage the maintenance, operation and continuous improvement of wind generation assets, safely and with the highest levels of availability and profitability. We carry out the sourcing and development of wind projects as well as having the full responsibility for wind project execution. We also perform the structuring and execution of project partnerships in accordance with our overall wind strategy.

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