Lead Electrical Engineer(32482)

Vestas has worked with our customers in avoiding 1.7 billion tons of carbon emissions till now. If you feel inspired by developing Electrical solutions in a complex business environment, then you may be the Lead Electrical Engineer we are looking for.
Working with Vestas means every action you take contributes to renewable energy and essentially has an impact on building a more sustainable future for us and the generations to come. Come and be part of the energy transition!

VPS Region NCE > Technical Sales Management NCE North & West

VPS Region NCE represents the corporate product & technology organisation Vestas Power Solutions (VPS) in the 6+ GW p.a. regional business unit Northern & Central Europe (NCE), spanning from Ireland to the USA and Norway to the Balkans and across the spectrum of Sustainable Energy Solutions with On- & Offshore wind at the core. Our main responsibilities center around technical contracting, technical value engineering, customisation and execution as well as regional product market requirement, product integrity management and ensuring grid compliance.
The Electrical Engineer's tasks are to support our customers to design and build highly advanced and compliant wind power plants and track the changes on electrical grid requirements. This role will be focused on the Northern European mainly Nordic-speaking markets with international opportunities, yet predominantly across the Sales regions in North and West (within NCE).
The team NCE Power Plant Solutions consists of an international team of electrical engineers. It is part of the VPS Region NCE, Technical Sales Management supporting the organization in providing solutions to our customers across Northern, Central & Eastern Europe.

Responsibilities
Your main responsibility as an Electrical Engineer in the NCE Power Plant Solutions team will be to:
• Effectively contribute to the technical value engineering of customer renewable energy projects from the electrical side and contribute to technical negotiations of the Sales team consisting highly qualified experts in their respective fields
• With a focus on the electrical project configuration and compliance with requirements from customers and grid transmission operators, you ensure timely responses to customer enquiries, research and prepare clarifications and deviations to tenders
• Take ownership for relevant parts of technical risk assessment & mitigation during Value Engineering/Negotiation phase and therefore own the relevant technical annexes and contract schedules
• Collect relevant electrical data and customer/site/grid requirements for project grid integration studies and request studies for Engineering Pre-Design (EPD)
• Review EPD study reports and evaluate for external use while supporting customers to optimize projects using the EPD study results
• Taking accountability beyond the initial Sales phase, you technically support the Construction and commissioning phase, prepare grid compliance test protocols (plans and procedures), and support during test execution

Qualification
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering/Power Systems or B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering/Power Systems including
• 5+ years' experience in a similar position regulatory electrical requirements and grid codes
• Knowledge in power system evaluations and studies (steady state and transient studies such as short circuit, load flow, FRT, power quality)
• Knowledge in power system simulation software such as DIgSILENT/PSCAD/PSSE
• Knowledge about HV and MV equipment and power systems with great understanding of primary and secondary systems
• Knowledge of industrial automation and networks, PLC hardware, SCADA systems and communication interface beneficial
• Project management experience within wind industry beneficial

Competencies
• Solid technical skills with problem solving attitude and root cause failure analysis
• High level of communication and presentation skills with both written and spoken English, additional Nordic language is beneficial
• Highly organised and prioritize daily work under fast-moving environment
• Highly motivated and skilled at stakeholder management (customers, grid operators, conferences including product management R&D)
• A result-oriented customer focused mindset who can work with little supervision and with an international team

What We Offer
We offer an exciting workplace with great professional and personal development opportunities in an inspiring, international work environment with a global wind turbine manufacturer. You will be part of the front figure within sustainable energy solutions, and you will get the chance to make an impact on the green energy transition with innovative solutions. We are a team of skilled and committed colleagues who are all enthusiastic about wind energy. We have a good atmosphere within the department, and everyone is always prepared to support when needed.
You will have the opportunity to develop a career in a global company within a very exciting industry - Working as an Electrical Engineer opens career paths in Sales and Engineering within Vestas.

Additional Information
Your place of work can be one of Vestas offices based at Malmö in Sweden, Aarhus and Videbæk in DK.
You can expect maximum 20 travel days per year.
Please be advised to apply on or before 28th of Februay 2023.
Applications are handled on an ongoing basis, we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to the advertised closing date.