Siting Solutions (Lead) Engineer, Project Development

Do you have an engineering background combined with commercial insight? Do you want to work in a role where you will be exposed to many different internal and external stakeholders? If yes – then read on.


Power Solutions > Product Strategy & Technical Sales > Siting Solutions NORTH & WEST
The Siting Solutions Department as part of the Technical Sales Management unit is responsible for turbine siting and optimisation, representing Vestas at relevant industry conferences/workshops as well as establishing and growing strategic relationships with engineering counterparts within Vestas key customers and influential third party consultants.

The Siting Solutions team is accountable for providing fully optimised wind power plant layouts and turbine configurations which satisfy both internal requirements, such as lifetime, warranty, loading, safety, contribution margin maximisation, as well as
external requirements such as levelised cost of energy, finance-ability and customer preferences.

Responsibilities
Your main responsibilities as a Siting Solutions Engineer will be to act as an outward focused technical customer advisor ensuring supply of fully optimized wind power plant layouts and wind turbine configurations on a bid/request for a project.
After an intensive induction, you will be assigned to Vestas' siting activities mainly in the Northern European markets. Your responsibilities are:
Develop project specific siting technical solutions to maximize project value while managing risks, and also develop tools and collaborate on projects utilizing siting data to create value
Utilize knowledge of Vestas turbines and regional wind conditions to provide expertise and support to internal and external stakeholders
Identify market requirements and trends to promote product, tool, and process development, and also develop and handle relationships with customers and their consultants
Enable efficient interfaces between Sales, Technical Sales, Customers, Independent Engineers, and Central Technical Functions
Ensure knowledge sharing and collaboration across regional and Global Siting teams through coaching, mentoring, open and effective communication, and feedback
Defend Vestas siting results and support customers efforts to finance Vestas turbines with third party consultants

Besides all the engineering aspects you´ll need to have impeccable customer service awareness.


Qualifications
This position requires minimum a bachelor's degree in Engineering, preference within Mechanical or Renewables Engineering
Working experience within the wind energy industry
Demonstrated knowledge and skill in working with computers, software applications and coding
Requires solid investigative and methodical skills
Requires high level oral and written communication skills and good customer service skills to work with customers, consultants and cross-functional teams
Fluent in business English required; Additional languages a plus


Competencies
Ability to work internationally with large demanding customers to support the business
Solid communication skills and prior experience interacting with different internal and external stakeholders
The ability to be flexible, organised and collaborative with proven experience working in dynamic and intensive environments
The ability to be innovative and creative with a mindset towards the result
Creative solution identification and a high degree of motivation to satisfy customer needs
Professional presentation skills with ability and confidence to present to business unit management
Travel availability across the region



What we offer
As a Siting Solutions Engineer at Vestas, you will be in the heart of the action of the wind industry. Despite being the largest presence in the industry, Vestas is still very flexible and agile, giving you the freedom to act creatively in an international environment and highly diverse teams.

Additional information
Your primary work location is at our office in Malmo, Sweden. This position requires approximately 20% time for travel.
If the above matches your field of interest and your qualifications, please apply online as soon as possible and no later than May 20th 2021. You can apply online by clicking on the "Apply Online" button at the top or bottom of this page.