Lead Wind Engineer (Saudi)

What we need:

Lead Wind Engineer is responsible for technical training, 2nd level support to all maintenance activities in particular to troubleshooting, technical review of documentation and equipment specifications, assurance of technical best practices, provide root cause analysis services to the extent required, assure asset integrity and compliance with corporate and international standards or guidelines and support technically Predictive Analytics and Diagnostics solution in CMS and power performance monitoring, while proposing existing or new technical solutions as required.

Accountable for technical support, while ensuring best maintenance practices are applied across the whole Wind portfolio, towards best availability and performance across Wind operating fleet.

Setting the Standards

• Identification and compliance with applicable international standards and best practice.
• Development & sign-off of local standards and guidelines as required.
• Ensuring that the technical content of procedures and guidelines are up to date and technically sound.
• Collaborate with QA/QC departments to set up sound standards such as ITPs and RoS checklists for the manufacturing, installation and commissioning stages of new projects of respective technology.
• Ensuring best maintenance practices are applied in all wind projects towards best plants’ performance

Risk Identification and Mitigation

• Ensure asset specific risks are identified and mitigated to ensure safe and reliable operation of assets.
• Approve key engineering changes to critical assets to ensure design integrity.
• Identify vendors with equipment causing continued reliability issues
• Provide technical support in RCAs led by Business areas engineering, to the extent required.
• Jointly participate in QA/QC inspections and follow ups during project early stages to the extent required to ensure assets reliability and integrity during operation.
• Report quality in all maintenance activities and provide guidance to continuously and effectively improve it.

Engineering Support

• Design review and review of equipment technical specifications for both, Wind turbine Generators and Electrical BoPs.
• Must leverage industry experience, equipment knowledge, software know-how, to support world class predictive analytics and monitoring solutions.
• Participate, when appropriate, and contribute to near miss investigations by providing the technical expertise in the discipline.
• Identifying long term solutions for assigned tasks related to reliability issues that are deemed safety critical / urgent / high value to key stakeholders.
• Participate in the relevant network groups and provide guidance on Best Practices. Ensure REX/lessons learned are implemented.
• Attend asset specific international conferences.
• Provide guidance, mentoring and training on the wind technologies installed covering all maintenance activities, particularly in troubleshooting towards best efficiency and WTGs availability.
• Ensure Lessons learned and best practices are shared across Wind fleet.
• Be 2nd level support for troubleshooting activities towards shortest mean times to repair.

Projects

• Review and validate Vendor/OEM Listing for new projects.
• Be responsible for providing technical approval for asset specific plant or process changes / modification.
• Be responsible for review and approval of Safety System Changes within their discipline.

Who will fit:

• University degree in Engineering discipline. Master's degree is a plus.
• Vast knowledge and experience in maintenance of clean energy assets, preferably wind.
• Preferably a Saudi national