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Engineering Manager - OSS Topsides
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Engineering Manager - OSS Topsides
London
Permanent
Office/Home Hybrid Working
Do you want to be a key member of our offshore substation engineering delivery team? Can you bring your extensive experience in M&E engineering to drive value for our projects and customers? Are you a motivated specialist with in-depth knowledge and ability to lead a team? Then, join us to deliver some of industry’s most complex and interesting projects.
Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow
To further expand our Offshore Wind delivery team, we are looking for an Engineering Manager to join us. Working on a variety of Offshore substation projects, you’ll be responsible for the electrical and mechanical elements of our Topsides scope.
Your key responsibilities will be:
- Leading and coordinating all mechanical and electrical engineering activities related to Offshore Substation Topsides for offshore wind projects.
- Acting as the technical authority and primary interface for electrical systems within the Topsides scope.
- Developing engineering execution strategies, priorities, and action plans to ensure timely project delivery.
- Coordinating multidisciplinary interfaces across electrical, structural, mechanical, telecom, SCADA, safety, and HV systems disciplines.
- Providing technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams, discipline leads, suppliers, and subcontractors.
- Identifying technical risks, interface challenges, and engineering constraints, and implement mitigation strategies throughout the execution phase.
- Ensuring engineering activities are aligned with fabrication, transportation, installation, commissioning, and operational requirements.
- Participating in technical workshops, design reviews, HAZID/HAZOP sessions, FAT/SAT activities, commissioning coordination, and client meetings.
- Promoting continuous improvement and implementation of engineering best practices and lessons learned across projects.
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Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.
The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.
On top of that, you’ll have:
- Extensive experience within offshore wind and offshore substation projects.
- Solid technical understanding of OSS Topside electrical systems and multidisciplinary interfaces.
- Experience from developer, EPC, OEM, fabrication yard, or consultancy environments.
- Familiarity with international offshore standards and regulations including IEC, DNV, and grid compliance requirements.
- Demonstrated capability in managing engineering teams within complex international projects.
- Knowledge of fabrication, transportation, offshore installation, commissioning, and operational considerations for offshore substations.
- Effective stakeholder management and communication skills across clients, contractors, suppliers, and authorities.
A place to work and so much more
At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to show by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers
We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.
With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.
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What we also offer:
To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.
Some of our benefits include:
- 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays
- Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
- Private health care, for you and a contribution from you for your immediate dependents
- Flexible and hybrid working conditions
- Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
- Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
- Life assurance
- Maternity Leave: 1-20 weeks full pay, 21-26 weeks half pay, 27-39 Statutory (SMP) 40-52 weeks unpaid (eligibility criteria will apply)
- Paternity Leave: 12 weeks full pay (eligibility criteria will apply)
Optional benefits include:
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Electric vehicle lease
- Corporate gym membership
- Annual Rail card (available for under 30s)
Got more questions?
If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition Specialist Laura Dobson at LADN@COWI.COM.
Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.
Equal opportunity employer.
COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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