Offshore Wind Advisory Team Lead

About Venterra:

Venterra is a specialist engineering services company, providing innovative solutions across broad Offshore Wind project requirements. We have offices in London, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Norwich, Dublin, Cork, Belfast as well as USA, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Denmark, and Germany. We operate globally offering a uniquely broad range of consultancy, survey and build services that are entirely renewable focused and specifically Offshore Wind specialised.

Our clients include government bodies, project developers, investors and tier one contractors. We also offer forensic engineering and expert witness services to the Insurance and Legal sectors. Our principal areas of expertise are Geoscience, Advisory, Design, Survey and Environmental as well as our build services offering Heavy Lifting solutions, Bespoke Equipment Design and Handling tools, Vibro-Lifting technology and Offshore grouting.

Venterra is initiating exponential growth in order to effectively service the needs of the rapidly growing market as the national and global targets for energy transition grow ever closer. As a result, we are seeking high quality individuals with shared motivation serving the energy transition and with a strong entrepreneurial drive.

Place of work:

You work a hybrid pattern from any of our offices (London, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Norwich, Dublin, Cork, Belfast, Hamburg or Aarhus) and should expect to attend our head office in London on a monthly basis.

Role Description:

As part of the Advisory Service Line, we are seeking several Team Leads. The Advisory service line incorporates those services which are offered to wind Farm developers and the like at the early DEVEX stages of the Wind Farm developments. Services such as Grid Advisory & Infrastructure Security, Development and Market Intelligence, Government Advisory, Business Case and Commercial Support, Due Diligence, Wind Resource & Energy Yield Analysis and Project & Package Management. You will report to the Service Line Director in the delivery of a high functioning and high performing team that meets agreed financial and strategic objectives.

Each Team is intended to provide a range of advisory services to clients largely focused on early-stage developments. This may range from individuals working for or even being seconded into client organisations on an individual basis or by delivering a packaged scope of work to the client. You should anticipate splitting your time between fee earning work on projects for clients and time spent leading and building your team and the advisory business.

We are seeking high calibre individuals with extensive experience across Grid Advisory, Infrastructure Security, Economics and Risk on offshore wind projects.

As a Lead for these teams, you will be responsible for the evolution and growth of the team to meet its purpose and to ensure it achieves the required performance. You will also take responsibility to pursue sales of your team and service lines services at all opportunities and work with the relevant Business Development staff and the Service Line Director as appropriate on this.

A key feature of these roles is to act in a client facing manner, to work collaboratively with our clients, and to be proactive to ensure the projects maintain momentum. You will be asked to take responsibility for some client account management but maintaining and growing your relationships with clients across the industry is an important part of the role. You will be commercially astute with experience demonstrating your capability in managing teams of people, technical leads, multiple concurrent disciplines, stakeholders, programmes and budgets.

The ideal candidate will possess demonstrable experience working in the marine renewables sector and will have managed a portfolio of marine projects. However, a strong organisational ethos and a track record in your chosen field is a must as well as demonstrable experience in managing teams of people and subcontracts to a successful outcome.

You will also possess a very strong technical understanding of offshore wind energy infrastructure, and a thorough knowledge of the drivers behind offshore wind. As a point of contact for key clients, you will have excellent report writing and presentation skills. You will be a confident communicator to a range of audiences, be comfortable managing a team of development professionals and have strong people coordination skills.

You will be capable and prepared to take on fee earning work yourself for early stage OWF developments, you will need to lead the delivery of our service offering to key clients, which will involve internal team coordination of technical inputs, communications with the clients and QA of critical deliverables. This includes coordination of internal staff and external resource where needed, deliverable review and acceptance, budget and time adherence, client liaison, and internal reporting on offshore wind projects. The role will also involve the preparation of bids for new work from time to time. The Team Leads are ideally engineers or other technically educated professional conversant in offshore wind turbine technologies and market conditions, such that in this client facing role, the PM is able to guide technical discussions and make recommendations.

As a key contributor to the marine advisory team, you will have a focus on:

• Supporting major wind project developments in Europe and internationally.
• Providing engineering input from initial assessment through to technical and economic feasibility, due diligence, construction monitoring and acceptance.
• Reviewing and preparing technical and non-technical reports to a high standard including specifications, reports, proposals, calculations, and contracts.
• Providing technical tender support.
• Actively assisting with business development and client management.
• Attending client and site visits as required (worldwide).
• Reviewing and preparing technical specification and design drawings.
• Working effectively on several projects concurrently to deliver to tight deadlines.
• Support and mentor the career development of junior engineers.

In addition, the ideal candidate shall have:

• Degree level qualifications in engineering or similar technical subject.
• Demonstrable experience of team leadership and commercial topics.
• Excellent IT skills particularly MS Excel/Word/Project and PowerPoint.
• Evidence of technical competence, self-motivation, ability to use own initiative, flexible, problem-solving approach.
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary engineering environment.
• Ability to communicate clearly & concisely in English, both verbally & written and ability to explain technical issues to non-engineers, including Clients.
• The successful candidate will be required to produce and review technical reports for clients, so attention to detail is paramount.
• Ability to influence and motivate stakeholders within a complex environment,
• Ability to lead/chair and present at meetings etc.
• Able to collate, analyse and act upon complex and diverse information from a variety of sources and give advice for project level decision making. Own and drive best QHSE practice and company policies throughout the project.

Candidates should also be highly organised and motivated individuals with effective communication skills, a good work ethic, and a commitment to technical excellence, personal efficiency, and career progression through Continued Professional Development.

This is a full time, permanent position. Salary is dependent on experience.

At Venterra:

At Venterra, we are committed to inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We take inclusion and diversity seriously. We know that getting this right is critical for us to live our organisation’s values. We are always trying to improve our way of working to be more inclusive and equal. We are an equal opportunity employer. Our vision is for Venterra to be a place where people of all ethnicities feel welcomed to work.