TenneT is growing fast to realize its strategic ambitions. We play a leading role in driving the energy transition. We are looking for a passionate Sub Project Lead Technical Safety at our location Arnhem who will contribute to this and that might be you?
Your contribution to TenneT
TenneT is growing fast to realize its strategic ambitions. We play a leading role in driving the energy transition. We are looking for a passionate Sub Project Lead Technical Safety (safety engineer) who will contribute to this and that might be you?
2GW Offshore Wind Program
More offshore wind energy is needed to achieve the climate goal of a 55% reduction of CO2 emissions by 2030. In 2022, the Government raised the target for offshore wind capacity from 11 to 21 gigawatts (GW) by 2030/2031. Achieving this target means offshore wind farms will supply 16% of Dutch energy needs. It also equates to approximately 75% of our current electricity consumption.
Our electricity consumption is, however, expected to increase. Therefore, we will need even more offshore wind to be developed after 2030. Future scenarios for energy systems (supply and demand) and the North Sea Energy Outlook (Noordzee Energie Outlook) indicate we will need between 38 and 72 GW of cumulative offshore wind capacity by 2050.
Source: https://english.rvo.nl/information/offshore-wind-energy/offshore-wind-energy-plans-2030-2050
TenneT has committed to a 2GW program to realize at least 14 2GW HVDC Grid Connection Systems that bring the power from the offshore wind farms in the North sea into the Dutch and German electricity grid in the period up to 2031. These Grid Connection Systems consist of an onshore substation and an offshore substation.
More information about the 2GW program can be found here: https://www.tennet.eu/nl/het-2gw-program
Your contribution to TenneT
For one of the project teams building several of these offshore 2GW substations under an EPCI contract, we are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Sub Project Lead (SPL) Technical Safety (safety engineer) in our Large Projects Offshore (LPO) department, based in Arnhem.
The SPL Technical Safety is in charge to supervise delivery by the Stations (HVDC) contractor of all offshore platform systems in the Safety Engineering discipline in accordance with all relevant TenneT requirements and contractual obligations. The SPL will do this together with a team of technical specialists and a site team throughout all phases of the project from the design phase up to the handover of the offshore substation to the operations department. The scope includes minimum six platforms constructed by the same EPCI contractor.
The scope includes evaluation of all safety related documentation delivered by the contractor (e.g. EERA, FERA, safety plans, escape routes, safety signs, hazardous areas, etc.), all safety related systems (e.g. Fire Fighting and Detection systems, life boats) and all the RAMS related processes and studies (e.g HAZIDs, HAZOPs, bow ties, FMECA’s).
You will actively stimulate both the contractor and our internal team to focus on Safety by and in Design and ensure these 2GW platforms will be built as safe as possible for the next 40 years of their operation.
The Sub Project Lead will support realisation of the goals of TenneT’s overarching 2 GW program and coordinate and cooperate closely with the overall project team and is responsible for the achievement of the goals for his scope (including SHE, time, quality and costs). As SPL Technical Safety you are reporting to the Project Lead Platform.
Your tasks and responsibilities:
- Manage the EPCI contractor towards a successful completion of the design and execution in terms of safety, compliance with the contract, schedule and quality for your scope.
- Manage the document review cycle for your discipline and review critical documents yourself.
- Follow up on the manufacturing and testing of your packages at the vendor’s premisses.
- Follow up on the site installation, mechanical completion and onshore/offshore (pre)commissioning activities for the packages in your scope together with the site team.
- Cooperate with the certifying authority for approval of the packages in your scope.
- Act as a central contact person for internal stakeholders (e.g. Asset Management, Grid Field Operations, HSE department) for your scope.
- Act upon changes, wishes, requests and discussions coming from internal and external stakeholders
- Support a successful implementation of Safety by Design.
- Support a successful implementation of systems engineering.
- Ensure the 2GW standard design is adhered to and implemented correctly.
- Align with experts and teams within Offshore NL/GER and various other departments within TenneT and take into account lessons learned from other large (2GW) projects.
Your profile and background
- Mechanical of Safety engineering background or equivalent (BSc. degree or higher).
- 5 years+ experience with design, installation, testing and commissioning of safety systems in an offshore environment
- You have experience with offshore oil & gas or offshore wind platforms.
- You have both theoretical and practical safety knowledge and experience.
- You have knowledge of the relevant safety norms and standards
- You have experience with RAMS processes and workshops.
- You have excellent communication, cooperation and influencing skills and are able to challenge and motivate both the contractor team as the internal team.
- You show initiative, you are persuasive, sensitive, aware of your stakeholders and capable of balanced judgment.
- You are willing to travel on regular basis abroad to the location of the designer in the United Emirates (Sharjah) and optionally later to the fabrication yard(s) located in South East Asia or elsewhere
- You will work on Mondays and Tuesdays together with the rest of the team from the TenneT office in Arnhem and on the other days flexible from home or from the office.
- You are fluent in English, both verbally and in writing.
- Speaking Dutch is an advantage, but not mandatory.
- You are dynamic, enthusiastic, intrinsically motivated, you take your responsibility and ownership (committed); no 'nine to five-mentality’.
- Experience with or interest and learning ambitions in technical project management, contractor management and all related processes.
- You have strong problem solving skills.
Our recruiting process
Our offer
This will be our challenge
Large Projects Offshore is a key contributor to the energy transition. The Unit is responsible for the current and future development of the offshore grid as a whole and subsequently for the development and realization of the DC interconnectors and the Offshore Wind Farm grid connections in both the German and Dutch sectors of the North Sea.
Additional information
- Start as soon as possible
- The weekly working time is 40 hours
- The position is internal and permanent
- Job interviews for this position can be (partly) in English. Please send us your application document in English
- Job level grade 9: salary 59-117k€ / year (including year end bonus and holiday allowance )
- Willingness to travel: at least 1 week a month to Middle East and Asia (daily allowance and overnight compensation applies)
TenneT is een toonaangevende Europese netbeheerder (Transmission System Operator, TSO). Wij zetten ons in voor een veilige en betrouwbare elektriciteitsvoorziening, 24 uur per dag en 365 dagen per jaar. Daarbij stimuleren we de energietransitie met als doel een duurzame, betrouwbare en betaalbare energietoekomst. Als eerste grensoverschrijdende TSO ontwerpen, bouwen, onderhouden en exploiteren we 25.000 kilometer aan hoogspanningsverbindingen in Nederland en grote delen van Duitsland, en faciliteren we de Europese energiemarkt via de 17 interconnectoren met onze buurlanden. Met een omzet van 9,8 miljard euro en een totale activawaarde van 41 miljard euro zijn we een van de grootste investeerders in nationale en internationale elektriciteitsnetten, zowel onshore als offshore. Elke dag stellen onze 7.400 medewerkers alles in het werk om tegemoet te komen aan de behoeften van de samenleving door het tonen van eigenaarschap, moed en verbinding. Samen zorgen we ervoor dat meer dan 43 miljoen eindgebruikers op een stabiele elektriciteitsvoorziening kunnen rekenen.
Lighting the way ahead together
Lighting the way ahead together
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