Electrical cable engineer – KSS (Biarritz)

Project details

PROJECTS : Offshore wind farm development worldwide regarding subsea power cable package (fixed or dynamic one)

Role Definition

1. The Role

The Electrical Engineer will be responsible for the electrical design and grid integration of renewable generation projects, ensuring that technical risk, interfaces and communications are all managed to the highest standards, throughout all stages of project planning and execution. Management of both suppliers and stakeholders may form part of the role, and the Electrical Engineer will be required to represent both the company and specific projects. The candidate must be able to demonstrate initiative and self-motivation and must take on ownership of complex tasks and challenges.

The Electrical Engineer reports on a day to day basis to the Engineering Manager and will be based at the client office as agreed in the Contract of Employment. This is a full-time role and travel from time to time in connection with the project should be expected.

2. Responsibilities

Objective: to optimize project electrical design specification and compliance, ensuring that interfaces and communications are all managed effectively and professionally, and that outputs are all of an exceptionally high quality that stand up to external assessment.

• Electrical design optimization for client’s marine renewable energy projects in France;
• Conceptual design for electrical engineering components of renewable energy power plants;
• Liaise with external stakeholders, such as Electrical Operator or transmission system owner (TSO) and local authorities related to grid connection agreements, grid system studies and electrical concepts;
• Technical sparring and clarifications with TSO related to grid studies, such as steady state analysis, including load flow and short circuit calculations, harmonics analysis and system studies, including dynamic and transient simulations;
• Evaluation of new products, concepts and technologies;
• Review of Grid Codes and Transmission Codes, and application to designs and/or technical discussions;
• Input into technical elements of client’s requirements
• Procurement, and review, of front-end electrical engineering reports, drawings and investigations (e.g. grid studies, feasibility studies, load flow and short-circuit studies, energy loss calculations, reticulation network designs, substation layouts etc.);
• Follow-through and analysis of several RFI/RFQ for dynamic cables ;
• Concept analysis of turbine connection/disconnection procedures and jumper module in case of heavy maintenance;
• Participate in design reviews, risk assessment, lessons learnt and resolution workshops, with subsequent implementation and reporting;
• Technical engagement with external consultants, contractors, independent engineers, lenders engineers, utility and grid companies and others, both locally and overseas as required;
• Interact with the cross-functional design team, in the design of electrical systems;
• Provide technical input into electrical health & safety procedures;
• Liaison with the various multi-disciplinary teams working on client’s projects in various countries, providing technical assistance and clarifications to any staff members when requested;
• Ensuring electrical engineering activities are carried out to the highest quality standards, and in accordance with the relevant health and safety regulations
• Preparation and presentation of project literature, reports, presentations and briefing notes including the competent use of all relevant software required to professionally convey project information.

Qualification

• A degree in Electrical Engineering and a minimum of three years of professional experience, ideally in a similar project development role;
 
• Experience in the design and implementation of instrumentation, test and DAQ systems;
• Experience with power conversion, conditioning and grid compliant systems;
• Familiarity with Grid Code and development of compliant systems;
• Team player with excellent interpersonal skills;
• Strong communication skills and an ability to liaise with a range of different parties;
• Experience of representing an organization professionally;
• Highly competent in the use of MS Office including Excel, proficiency in GIS or CAD, and ability to work collaboratively using Sharepoint or Teams;
• Full, clean driving licence.