Hvdc Project Technical Director

**Job Description Summary**: For Grid Solutions, Offshore HVDC represents a key differentiating technology and a central focus for the business, particularly in Europe where Transmission System Operators have very ambitious renewable energy targets. In that context and for Germany, Grid Solutions is partnering with TenneT, which plans to invest more than $30B by 2030 in deploying new HVDC converter stations to bring Offshore Wind energy into Germany and the Netherlands. In this context, Grid Solutions is looking for a Project Technical Director who will oversee the technical coordination and management of technical topics of the entire scope of one 2GW HVDC project in Germany. This is a large, complex multi-year EPC project (contract value > $1B), part of a portfolio of several HVDC projects for TenneT, with a major consortium partner in charge of building the offshore platforms. He/she will be the contact point to the Customer on technical matters and responsible to lead the elaboration of the best possible solutions with project members regarding technical aspects. The Project Technical Director will be accountable of the proper performance of the design in terms of engineering cost, deadlines, and quality. He/she will coordinate and manage the global time schedule of engineering activities, follow-up engineering budgets, define the project design quality plan, ensure implementation of Engineering Management Handbook ‘EMH’ guidelines, supervise overall technical coordination between different work packages of Grid Complex large project. He/she will guarantee that global optimization is implemented when selecting technical solutions (cost effective solution, safe, ease of installation and operation of the systems) in line with Customer expectation and relevant documentation delivered as per project general time schedule. He will support ITO teams to define design strategy. Project management - Scope of work & time schedule - Accountable for consolidation of provisional drawing list issue with submission dates and global time schedule of engineering activities. - Ensure that the follow up of critical activities is done in a regular base by discipline PEM’s (‘Project Engineering Managers’) - Time delivery mastering - Support work-package PEM’s to anticipate and mitigate delivery issues - coordinate with discipline PEM’s delivery time of technical interfaces check that information exchange interface sheets are in place and followed. - Challenge the global time schedule for engineering activities in close collaboration with PEM’s and the planner - Ensure technical disciplines are Coordinated in terms of interfaces, synchronization - Budget and Resources - Support Package PEM’s to get required resources - Responsible for the project engineering budget, he/she manages monthly follow-up of the budget, identify potential savings and deviations through the modifications sheet. He/she makes sure that the imputations are properly allocated by WBS to ensure a consistent Return on Experience. - Communication - Animate Visual Management sessions / I-Obeya Project strategy & risk management - Elaborate the engineering execution strategy with the PEM’s - Participate to project strategy elaboration with Project Director - Define and validate the design quality plan for the whole engineering scope. - Ensure implementation of EMH guidelines - Consolidate and follow for the whole project technical risks & opportunities and the corresponding mitigation/ action plan - Implement a design freeze process for the project and validate the design freeze following relevant design reviews and technical risks assessment for the project Customer relationship - Responsible in front of the customer of the engineering execution of the project. He is the preferred contact of the customer management for all topics related to the engineering. - Accountable for the respect of customer technical requirements, he/she organizes the clause-by-clause analysis and coordinate the certification activities when required - Ensure with PEM’s compliance to customer requirements through technical queries, track, manage potential exceptions. - Together with all PEM’s ensure that answers to customer are consistent and check cross impact of comment - Manage customer technical meetings (including validation meeting, clarifications, design liaison meetings) Document & configuration management - Organize with integration & interface Manager and document controller leader the technical document management for the project: tool set-up, delivery process, Master drawing list, Questions / Responses follow up - Validate and check consistency of the engineering documents before final release to customer - Coordinate Tracking of customer comments and answers, along with document resubmission - Ensure that Management of return status of project documentation (approved, comments, resubmit, rejected) is performed - Coordinate the way to Trac