Senior Offshore Cable Engineer

Senior Offshore Cable Engineer

Location: Boston, MA

Salary: The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from $136k to $160k.

Summary: The AVANGRID RENEWABLES Sr. Offshore Cable Engineer reports directly to the Manager – Offshore Operations Electrical Engineering and focuses on assisting with the delivery of operational requirements in the US Offshore business.

The Sr. Offshore Cable Engineer will be part of a team responsible for defining O&M Strategies and plans, tendering (technical), negotiating (technical), and being the technical lead for small-scale offshore O&M campaigns/installations including management of contractors and associated interfaces, ensuring quality, best practices, and excellent H&SE performance are applied.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Technical/engineering support of small-scale offshore O&M campaigns/installations with several interfaces and coordination to manage within one or more of Avangrid Renewables offshore projects.
• Providing O&M engineering support, assistance, and recommendations to ensure delivery of mid to large-scale O&M works within time, budget, and quality following industry best practices, and observing maximum respect for Health, Safety, and the Environment to ensure regulatory and legal compliance.
• Implement offshore standards, procedures, tools, best practices, and quality requirements.
• Provide advice on operational solution/risk levels affecting technical integrity or asset performance and make technical recommendations to Project Managers based on the analyzed asset integrity status, production, and other KPIs to ensure that cost-effective solutions are identified and fully evaluated.
• Support the coordination of the EPC interface and Project Services Engineering Team to ensure the operational requirements are identified, fully evaluated, and actioned during project execution.
• Ensure that all assessments, advice, and recommendations are fully documented in accordance with all internal procedures and industry best practices.
• Develop technical specifications for maintenance agreements.
• Provide key and strategic advice, assessment, and recommendations to the business throughout the whole life cycle (development to decommissioning).
• Provide input on appropriate bid levels/commercial strategies and commercial agreements relative to projects.
• Ensure recommendations for improvement are fed into lessons learned regarding offshore wind farm operation and maintenance for sharing across the different Offshore Projects.

Site Work:

• Perform as-needed site visits to gather data or oversee project deployment.
• Travel will be required approximately 10% of the time; on-call support may be required.

Required Qualifications:

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or Civil Engineering, or equivalent technical field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with electrical transmission/underground transmission cable systems, particularly subsea cables.
• Experienced and understanding of technical due diligence.
• Eligible to work in the US.
• Flexible to travel around the US and overseas.
• Ability to work in high and medium voltage substation and collector system facilities including offshore assets.
• Ability to climb a 100+m wind turbine, work may involve inclement weather, electrical hazards, climbing turbines and ladders, and occasionally lifting up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to complete GWO basic safety and sea survival training.
• Ability to complete HUET training.
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle and travel by air; a current driver’s license is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience with offshore electrical transmission systems, including fiber optics.
• Working knowledge of subsea cable protection systems, subsea cable maintenance & repairing procedures.
• Experience in HV cable design, installation, commissioning, maintenance, or manufacturing.
• Engineering in Training (EIT) or Professional Engineering (PE) license.
• Experience in the offshore wind and/or offshore oil & gas field.
• Experience with cable calculation software such as ELEK, CYME, and ETAP.

Additional Success Factors:

• Consistent ability to efficiently self-manage multiple, concurrent projects, and priorities.
• Able to review complex analysis and develop formal documentation, technical reports, and presentations.
• Demonstrated ability to follow a project through completion in a timely, on-budget manner.
• Effectively receive and provide oral and written technical information.
• Ability to participate and foster working relationships in a productive team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to take actions beyond the explicit job responsibilities to assist in large, complex projects.

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