Protection Engineer for substations for offshore wind farms

Would you like to help us ensure quality, efficiency and continuous development within wind power in building grid connections for offshore wind farms?

Join our department Transformers and HV Components and become one of our skilled specialist working with the protection of the HV equipment in substations. Together with your 21 colleagues, you will represent electrical engineering in our wind projects. We are responsible for planning, designing and purchasing components, eg switchgears, transformers, reactors and protection systems for on- and offshore substations for wind farms. Additionally, some of our primary tasks are to follow up on projects and prepare tender documents, contracts and detailed designs.

The department is part of Wind Power, a large business unit with 1400 employees. We are the world's largest developer of offshore wind power and have exceptional competences within all fields of offshore wind technology. Our project portfolio comprises several major offshore wind projects in Northern Europe, and we have an ambitious strategy about further international growth in the coming years.

Preferably you will be based at our office in London, however one of our offices in Denmark (Gentofte or Fredericia) or Germany could also be an option. You should expect some travelling to our sites in the UK and Northern Europe in relation to your work.

Areas of responsibility

You will primarily work with integrated relay protection. In addition, you will work with substation control systems of electrical installations onshore and offshore with voltage levels from 0.4kV to 400kV. You will also work with process data analyses, power system disturbances and fault analyses.

Furthermore, your key duties will be to:

• perform calculations within the relay technical area
• prepare the technical requirements for protection systems in tender documents
• prepare technical requirements for factory acceptance and site acceptance testing and testing of protection systems
• participate in factory and final testing as well as commissioning of protection systems on site
• prepare technical reports and perform fault investigations.

Your profile

You will hold a relevant Engineering Degree in Electrical Engineering or similar and be interested in working with electrical infrastructure for wind farms. 

It is essential that your required professional skills are based on extensive, relevant protection and relay experience, ideally including experience with high-voltage installations.

You will have profound interest in and preferably experience with integrated relay protection and substation control systems. It is essential that you are able to draw on experience with the design and calculations of various protection systems. Moreover, you will be familiar with relay configuration and communication tools from various suppliers. You will have experience from using the IEC 61850 communication protocol in relation to your work. It will be an advantage if you have experience with offshore wind farms and electronic document handling systems. 

As we are an international company and cooperate closely with our colleagues abroad, it is essential that you speak and write English fluently. Additional languages will be an advantage.

You will have personal drive combined with both an analytical and responsible approach to your work. Additionally, you will enjoy sharing your knowledge with your colleagues in the project group and the department.

We offer

A unique and challenging job in an international energy company. You will be part of a dynamic department at the forefront of offshore wind power development. You will have excellent opportunities to further develop your competences when you participate in the implementation of some of the world's largest construction projects within the fields of offshore wind power.

We provide high-quality grid connection solutions, and you will have the opportunity to spar with experienced colleagues in an informal atmosphere. We focus on how to create the best possible value for our business, and we are inspired by freedom with responsibility rather than by rules.

Through your work, you will contribute to the implementation of an ambitious strategy for international growth and continuous development of CO₂-free energy solutions. We have an ambitious strategy about further growth in Northern Europe, and in our company, international growth and optimum operation will go hand in hand in the years to come.

We offer great educational opportunities, a competitive salary and an informal and attractive working environment. We have an active employee policy, which supports your career throughout the various phases of your working life.

To apply

We look forward to receiving your application, which should include your CV, covering letter, referee details and any applicable certificates solely as electronic files not later than 6.00 pm on 1 May 2014. However applicants may be contacted or considered on application. To apply, please click the Submit Application button on the right of this page.

In your covering letter please outline what motivates you to apply for this role and describe how your skills and experience match the role. With regards to certificates please upload your most recent educational or vocational certificates.

Please note that applications without a CV, covering letter and referee details will not be accepted.

We kindly request that you do not send applications by any other means than via our website, as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not submitted via our website.

Contact us

Please do not hesitate to contact Manager Willi Christiansen on telephone +45 99 55 63 65 if you have further questions.