Wind Turbines Engineer

Entity:

Gas & Low Carbon Energy

Job Family Group:

Engineering Group

Job Description:

Job Description

Come and join us in Offshore Wind Engineering where we are a fast-growing business and a key part of bp’s transition from an International Oil Company to Integrated Energy Company.

You will join us as a Wind Turbine Engineer in the Wind Turbines team. This team sits within the newly formed Offshore Wind organisation, where we are building the capability to deliver our bold renewables targets.

Your passion for engineering will connect with a company that enables you to contribute to major projects on a global scale.

You will provide technical management, performance management and verification of the wind turbine scope supporting the delivery of a wind farm wind turbine package.

What you will deliver:

• Provide wind turbine package guidance to front-end project development.
• Define and manage technical studies to advise key project choices.
• Develop the technical portion of the package requisition including technical specifications and information requirements and support supply chain engagement
• Support and guide negotiation of technical schedules of Turbine Supply Agreements
• Work closely with the Quality Manager to define test and inspection requirements
• Support technical bid evaluations
• Performance management of contractor engineering
• Technical verification of contractor engineering including design reviews
• Review and approve deviations
• Verify supplier documentation and handle the document review process, advise inspector visits and support client verification of construction work
• Support technical queries from other project functions, particularly operations and commissioning
• Verify package technical close-out and hand over to operations
• Collect lessons at keys stages during the package management lifecycle to continuously improve portfolio technical knowledge
• Promote innovation activities to ensure the use of emerging technologies

What you need to be successful:

Essential Criteria

• Engineering Degree in a relevant subject area (Mechanical, Electrical, etc.)
• Demonstrated technical proficiency in wind energy engineering with broad understanding of the applicable codes and standards for the scope
• Proficient written and spoken English language
• Experience of engineering and delivery of major offshore projects
• Understanding of technical risk identification and management processes

Desirable Criteria

• Chartered Engineer
• Understanding of Quality Management process for engineering, manufacture and installation
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate technical output to diverse partners
• Technical understanding the interfaces and interaction with supporting engineering subject areas for the scope of this package
• Evidence of continuous learning

You will work with:

• The Wind Turbine Package Manager in a project
• Engineers from key contractors
• Other engineering fields ensure the most efficient design and management of technical interfaces
• Multi-disciplinary teams locally and globally in the Offshore Wind department and across bp
• Procurement, quality and support functions
• The broader engineering community, ensuring knowledge sharing and best use of synergies across other bp departments

Why join our team?

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment, and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and other benefits.

Reinvent your career as you help our business grow for the future.

Apply now!

Travel Requirement

Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Anomaly assessment and management, Defect Elimination, Equipment criticality assessment, Equipment maintenance and inspection strategies, FAT and commissioning, Fatigue Analysis, Fitness for Service, Flanged joint, Integrity Management, Mechanical seals and support systems, Monitoring and data interpretation, Piping, hoses and tubing, Piping vibration, Pressure systems regulatory requirements, Pressure Vessels, Selection and design of pipeline equipment, Stress analysis for integrity and leakage, Valves used for isolation, Wind Turbines

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