Senior Design & Supply Engineer (IAC)

Scottish Power Renewables are looking for a Senior Design & Supply Engineer to join their EA2 project.

Role: Senior Design & Supply Engineer (IAC)
Business: Scottish Power Renewables - EA2
Duration: contract until 31/12/2026
Location: London or Glasgow/hybrid style working
Rate: Inside IR35, Umbrella and PAYE options available

Main Purpose of Job
The Design & Supply Engineer (Inter Array Cables) is a key Senior Engineer role within the Offshore Renewables Business, focussing on the delivery of large-scale offshore wind projects of East Anglia 2 in the UK.
Belonging to the Project Services team and reporting to a Lead Cable Engineer in the department and the Inter Array Cable Package Manager, The Senior Engineer will be responsible for implementing robust and cost effective engineering strategies, plans, specifications, tendering, negotiating and managing offshore design, supply and installation contracts, planning and implementing delivery sites and logistics, complying with company and business engineering standards and technical acceptance criteria, and ensuring quality, best practices and excellent Health, Safety and Environmental performance are applied.
The position may require frequent travel to various locations in the UK and overseas and the individual should be capable of working with teams at different locations.

Key Tasks

• Cable Design & Supply Engineer for a key package within one of Iberdrola’s offshore projects worldwide, providing key engineering advice, assessments and recommendations to ensure delivery of a multi-contract package within time, to budget and quality following industry best practice and observing the maximum respect for Health, Safety and the Environment to ensure regulatory and legal compliance.
• Provide professional advice on engineering strategies / risk levels and commercial agreements to the key package, to ensure that cost effective technical solutions are identified, fully evaluated and the risk profile is fully understood by the project.
• Ensure that all assessments, advice and recommendations are fully documented in accordance with all internal procedures and industry best practice, and that sufficient technical and commercial due diligence (whether internal or external) exists to support those business decisions.
• Deliver consistent, high-quality, cost-effective engineering advice to the key packages and projects.
• Manage the certification process with independent verification bodies (where applicable) to reduce design risk and enhance asset value.
• Review of documents, drawings and data submitted by Contractors to ensure compliance with contract and project requirements.
• Ensure that health, safety and environmental requirements are fully considered and adhered to in design to ensure compliance with legislation and industry best practice.
• Manage the inspection and testing of appropriate aspects of offshore plant to ensure that assets are supplied and installed to the required quality and engineering standards.
• Maintain full awareness of the latest technical and commercial developments and identify suitable new technology that has the potential to reduce cost and risk or improve safety.
• Implement offshore standards, procedures, tools, best practices and quality requirements for key work packages to ensure that packages are delivered according to specification, budget and programme without compromising safety.
• Ensure that appropriate lessons learnt regarding offshore wind farm development and construction are captured and shared across the different Offshore Project work packages. Collaborate with the Lead Engineer to ensure that the engineering team implements them to enhance business value.
• The current IBR/SPR offshore project pipeline is larger than 6 GW, with project delivery scheduled to 2025 and beyond.
• The Offshore Wind industry is still relatively immature, and a key focus is on driving down cost. The Offshore Technical team is focussed on project delivery from the very earliest phases of project development developing initiatives to reduce the cost of engineering, mitigating technical and commercial risk through sound engineering design and defining the project business model by optimising engineering solutions to the complex technical aspects of wind farm system design.
• Coordination of complex engineering is a key activity in offshore projects (large packages), where CAPEX is higher than 2 million pounds per MW, resulting in total budgets of several billion pounds. Excellent technical ability plus reliable, accurate cost estimation, risk management and budget control are essential requirements.
• Working within high performing, multidisciplinary team(s) spread across Europe and the Americas, which includes the management and coordination of engineering specialists operating across multiple projects incorporating many different educational and cultural backgrounds.

Key Criteria

• Submarine high voltage cables,
  • Experience in design, manufacturing, construction and/or operations.
  • Specification of HV cables from 33kV to 132kV
  • Understanding of cable system design and related engineering studies
  • Supporting contract and package manager in the delivery and execution of cable supply contracts
  • Cable design and sizing optimisation
  • Understanding of design issues relating to long transmission cables
  • Understanding of the design issues related to installation methods and conditions
• Offshore windfarm inter-array cable layout design
• Detailed knowledge of relevant standards such as IEC 60287, IEC 63026 & CIGRE TB722.
• Competent in the use of Finite Element Modelling (FEM) such as Ansys or COMSOL for the purpose of thermally rating cables.
• High degree of competency in the use of analytical tools such as Python, MATLAB and Excel for early engineering studies.
• Educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Achieved or eligible for qualification Chartered Engineer status.
• Substantial experience designing and working in the offshore industry, preferably offshore wind.
• Experience of working in teams involved in multidisciplinary work packages in international environments.
• Substantial experience in dealing with health and safety and environmental legislation associated with construction, marine and offshore projects.
• Proven experience in delivery of large packages, including contract management, programme management, cost and risk control.
• Sound relationship management skills and confidence working with Senior Management.
• Proven communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to influence and develop key engineering decisions.
• Excellent report writing, presentation skills and ability to summarize key parameters and drivers impacting the package.
• Sound planning and analysis skills with the ability to look forward and see / anticipate problems and thereafter plan and implements mitigating solutions to negate the effect of such problems.
• Ability to identify resource constraints and provide recommendations to mitigate capacity or capability gaps

Other Role Information
Offshore Working Expected:
Yes

Site Working Expected:
Yes

Travel to International Site Working Expected:
Yes