Working at CorPower Ocean you will be part of a world class team, committed to make big impact. We are on a mission to bring reliable and competitive wave energy to the world. We offer a high degree of freedom and flexibility, combined with great personal responsibility. CorPower Ocean is a global leader in wave energy, with a technology that has shown game-changing performance. Your work will contribute to the global transition to renewable energy by unlocking one of the largest untapped sources of clean energy on earth.

The Role

The Project Office at CorPower is looking for a dynamic project engineer/technical project manager with a strong interest in developing our commercial engineering projects, including Front-End Engineering Design (FEED), for wave project sites around the globe. You will be joining a fast-growing and successful team many opportunities to grow in the role with the opportunity to see project come to life from initial FEED engineering to detailed design (DD), construction all the way through to Operating wave farms in the Ocean. The role requires the mindset of engineer first, project manager second, combining both these skills to develop and deliver sound technical engineering projects with a simultaneous and solid application of project management principles. You will help define and lead our flagship FEED engineering projects via engagement with both internal and external resources, as well as known and important commercial stakeholders/key clients. The role will also involve working closely with the commercial team to drive and deliver on our commercial wave engineering projects to match the commercial requirements at group level around the globe.

This is a dynamic role where no day is the same and in which one must be comfortable reacting to a fast-paced environment where solutions must be found quickly through agile management, solid problem solving, good engineering judgement and strong leadership. The role will be working closely with the rest of the project team but will involve a large amount of interaction with our entire engineering, supply chain, testing and finance teams requiring good collaboration skills to really drive the FEED project(s) forwards.

The role will also involve other tasks for the company and promoting and communicating about wave technology. You will get the chance to input and develop proposals for new projects to meet next stage company goals.

Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver project development projects, such as FEED scopes, to meet performance, schedule, budget and quality targets for our clients
• Define, initiate and drive project scopes and work packages to align with the overall development of the company and requirements of the client’s project sites
• Combine engineering and project management needs to lead and drive all work packages forwards across your project assignments.
• Evaluate, organize and prioritize tasks and resources in your projects
• Ensure alignment between all stakeholders, serve the multidisciplinary engineering teams with status and schedule updates and project reports (Technical Progress point of contact)
• Submit Technical and Financial project status reports to clients/project developers
• Write and coordinate new project scope definition for various FEED projects
• Represent CorPower at various events/meetings/presentations (travelling is part of the role)
• Identify and drive improvements in key Business Tools requiring a detailed understanding of our operations

Skills and qualifications

• You have a minimum of 5-10 years of relevant background from technical project engineering and an engineering degree
• Experience in leading and coordinating Front End Engineering Design (FEED) projects.
• Project planning and cost estimation
• Stakeholder Management and Client facing experience via scope definition and change management, reporting project progress and delivering projects
• You have a broad technical knowledge in engineering and genuine interest in the different aspects of ocean and/or renewable energy and technical development
• Experience from fast-paced development companies is meritorious
• Ability to juggle and coordinate multiple project areas at once -> e.g marine operations work packages, fabrication planning, costing, scheduling, resource (wave power) assessment, project development activities working with the project developers such as various license applications and environmental assessments for new sites

Skills and qualifications (Meriting but not essential)

• Knowledge and working exposure to areas such as marine operations planning, logistics and fabrication, grid compliance (including codes and regulations), Project Finance analysis, Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE) and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) tools, are all highly qualifying
• Awareness and understanding of offshore design, product development methods, reliability and certification processes is valuable

Your personality, experience and interest in the field are the most important and what is most highly valued at CorPower. You are proficient in English, both spoken and written.

As a person:

• You are striving for excellence, put quality into everything you do
• You are self-motivated and love to optimise your time
• You always search for the most simple and elegant solutions to difficult problems
• You love to learn new things, and take pride in constantly developing your skills
• You are persistent, knowing it takes stamina to reach pioneering goals
• You see your tasks through to completion
• You are comfortable in presenting your solutions internally and externally
• You are data driven and strive to always back your points with a solid research