Senior Specialist

About the job

Do you want to shape the future?

We offer an exciting opportunity as Senior Specialist - High Voltage AC Substations Primary Systems - to be an important part in paving the way for Vattenfall and its customers and partners towards a fossil free future

As Senior Specialist - High Voltage AC Substations Primary Systems - you will take technical leadership of all High Voltage AC equipment, including both switching and non-switching AC products such as transformers, switchgears, circuit breakers, HV filters (capacitors, resistors, and reactors) and interfaces, with portfolio-wide technical authority across full asset lifetime.

Join our journey towards Fossil Free Living within one generation.

The Engineering department of Wind Offshore is the technical know-how centre within Business Area Wind, setting the standards and guidelines as well as being embedded within our projects to drive technical excellence through the whole project lifecycle. Working within the Technical Engineering team of the Electrical Infrastructure department, the Senior Specialist - High Voltage AC Substations Primary Systems - shall be the focal point for all high voltage substations AC primary systems, providing technical leadership across the entire development and operational portfolio. Your work location can be Kolding in Denmark, Hamburg in Germany or London in UK.

What will you do?
You will work with dedicated engineering specialists to provide technical consulting, scalable technical leadership, creating technical content to establish a framework of processes, guidelines and other resources to maximize operational efficiency of Engineering.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

- Technical leadership of all High Voltage AC equipment across the full asset lifetime
- Lead technical investigations on asset performance/optimization and equipment failures across operational fleet. Act as proactive and visible Engineering link to all operational assets
- Work with internal R&D & Joint Industry Project and Academic institutions to promote innovation, balance new technologies against portfolio risk and control IP/Patent environment for scope area
- Ensure safety, environment and sustainability considerations are inherent in the design and delivery of all products and systems within scope area
- Act as approving authority for technical documentation related to the design, construction, commissioning, and maintenance procedures across High Voltage AC scope
- Support Engineering Management in identifying competency and capacity gaps within department and seek resourcing solutions (internal and external) to maintain and build range of technical capability
- Act as Vattenfall technical ambassador for industry events/consultations relating to scope area
- Support Package and Product Engineering to inject technical leadership into all stages of the project lifecycle. Control levels of technical variation within Product/Project portfolio and building learnings into standardization strategy and processes
- Act as a mentor for colleagues in scope area
- Demonstrate technical leadership and extend influence beyond normal job responsibilities

Location

Work location can be Kolding in Denmark, Hamburg in Germany or London in UK.

**Profile**:
For succeeding in the role
As our Senior Specialist - High Voltage AC Substations Primary Systems - you combine intense technical knowledge with a consulting mindset. You are actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning. You have the ability to manage complexity, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. You experienced in managing stakeholders, can communicate effectively and drive engagement.

Next to this you bring:

- Extensive experience within transmission-substation design up to extra high voltage level
- Experience drawn from across complete asset lifecycle would be of benefit
- Comprehensive knowledge High Voltage AC Substations as applied on onshore/offshore transmission systems, as well as grid stability and system performance
- Ability to identify and lead key technical topics, balancing both technical and commercial imperatives.
- Act as reviewer of key technical documentation
- Ability to take decisions in field of responsibility
- Participate in and, on occasion, lead technical investigations into equipment failures
- Strong HSE culture, with a strong commitment to contribute to the development and delivery of inherently safer wind farm projects
- High degree of self-motivation with a flexible approach to work.
- Degree level educated in electrical/power systems or other engineering discipline
- Excellent English language skills, additional Danish and/or German language skills are an advantage

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