Aarhus, Shaw Energy Recruitment Ltd
Candidates MUST have “large offshore steel construction, steel structures placed at the sea bed, and thereby, the interaction between waves, wind and soil conditions”.
Offshore Foundation Design Engineers (based in Aarhus – Denmark), ref 1004-17
Department
Are you motivated to lift a new offshore wind turbine foundation group off the ground and contribute as an Offshore Foundation Design Engineer, then this might be the right challenge for you. With your excellent Pro-Engineer skills, you will be the person visualising the different offshore foundation solutions.
The Tower and Structure department currently consists of more then 35 highly skilled employees located in Denmark, India, U.S. and China. The department is the competence centre for design, analyses and structural verification of main components in the nacelle, tower and foundation solutions and the department uses state of the art technologies in order to do so.
Responsibilities and Tasks
• Drive the development and verification of offshore foundation solutions
• Solid robust design of secondary structures such as platforms, ladders, service crane, J-tubes, anodes etc.
• Ensure that the wind turbine or foundation sub system meets the technical specifications in cooperation with design engineers from other departments
• Work innovatively from specification to production and installation
• Globally work together with suppliers, production, installation and transportation to ensure an integrated product development
• Perform preliminary strength validation using e.g. ANSYS Workbench
• Work closely together with structural engineers in mapping and benchmarking different offshore foundation concepts
Qualifications and Work Experience
• You have a bachelor or master’s degree in Offshore, Civil, Mechanical or Marine engineering
• You hold solid experience with Pro-Engineer or other 3D design tool
• You have experience with FE analysis
• You have 3+ years experience with integrated product development, preferably from an R&D organisation.
• Experience in the offshore wind energy sector is seen as a great benefit
• You have good knowledge of manufacturing processes of large offshore structures
• You have the desire and the ability to understand a wide range of multidisciplinary technical disciplines within a complete wind turbine and how it affects the foundation design.
• You are very conscious about quality and thorough in your work and you find it easy to work with other people in a project organisation
• You are independent and structured, and you have an infectious sense of humour
• You are flexible, you enjoy teamwork and you can work with a global mindset
• You have good English skills both verbally and in writing
• As a person you have drive and passion for what you do and you keep focus on the target
• You are responsible and willing to take ownership of design tasks and drive solutions
• You enjoy working in a team with professionals from many different disciplines
• You are attracted by an international environment with a high level of activity
What we offer
We offer you a challenging and demanding job with excellent professional and personal development opportunities in an inspiring, international work environment at the world’s leading manufacturer of wind turbines. We have a high focus on personal development and have a well functioning business academy. The job will bring you in contact with internal and external customers/suppliers around the world.
Additional Information
Your primary work location will be at our R&D centre in Aarhus, Denmark which is the largest R&D centre for wind turbines in the industry