RWE Renewables GmbH, Coventry, Essen, Hamburg, Madrid, Malmö, Rome, Swindon

To start as soon as possible, Full time, Permanent

Functional area: Engineering 

As Senior Project Manager for Technical Optimization and LCOE optimization you assume accountability and responsibility to increase the competitiveness and value of our “Onshore and PV Europe and Australia (OPEA)” business. In close alignment with our operational units (e.g. Development, Construction, Operations) and our Engineering teams, you will manage to generate, assess and mature optimization ideas. You will manage to enable the implementation of according technical measures to improve our competitiveness and increase throughput. These improvements shall consider individual renewables projects as well as the whole portfolio of renewables projects. 

Your tasks

• Ideation and evaluation of Technical Optimization measures for Renewables Projects
  • Actively manage the collection of technical optimization ideas. 
  • Identify and assess technical optimization opportunities regarding effort and gain, i.e. the potential to support the OPEA business targets (e.g. increasing competitiveness by reducing LCOE and increasing throughput).
  • Support other colleague(s) with similar tasks.
• Optimization tasks
  • Conceptual – Developing, improving, aligning and promoting a holistic technical optimization concept that combines cost & value (LCOE and LROE), combines project level and portfolio aspects, combines Dev, Con and Ops aspects. Furthermore, the concept shall consider the optimization potential in terms of effort and value (avoid overengineering). This concept shall support growth targets as well as consider constraints (e.g. limited resources).
  • Therewith, providing recommendations to the OPEA engineering community regarding the adequate scope, effort (incl. resources) and prioritization of optimization on portfolio and on project level. 
  • Ensure that optimization concept is aligned with strategy and business needs.
  • Facilitate the application of the optimization concept for renewable energy projects and portfolios 
  • Ensure that all relevant stakeholders can grow competencies required to execute the optimization concept, e.g. clarifying interfaces and required technical skills such as matching state of the art industry practices.
• Project management:
  • Plan and setup new multi-disciplinary technical optimization projects or initiatives 
  • Manage or support projects, incl. stakeholder management and reporting
  • Enable and support business roll out of project results.
• Act as advisor to engineering management for all relevant technical decisions related to strategic projects.
• Establish and manage an OPEA engineering platform (e.g. community of practice) for multi-disciplinary technical optimization to drive best practice and knowledge sharing across all OPEA regions, technologies and value chain steps.
• Guide and support other team member(s) in their work with the register of LCOE ideas, lessons learned and best practices and bring insights from other RWE Renewables business.  
• Analyse competitors activities and current position regarding LCOE optimization with an aim to improve our competitive insights and the LCOE optimization approach 

Your profile

• University degree in engineering, natural science and/or economics or similar
• Several years of relevant and concrete job experience required, incl. renewable energy, consulting and/or optimization 
• Good experience in project management, communication and stakeholder management, and capable to prioritise 
• Interdisciplinary and creative mindset, ability to work independently and proactively 
• Excellent analytical capabilities  and good understanding of commercial implications of engineering decisions.
• Ability to work together across geographies and hierarchies.
• Experience in understanding a broad range of complex topics and explain them in a variety of stakeholder contexts
• Strong team player, flexible, self-organising, focused on stakeholder needs and capable to strive within a dynamic international environment 
• Flexibility to travel domestic and internationally
• Fluent English language skills, other languages would be beneficial
• Good command of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

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Apply now with just a few clicks: ad code 80684, application deadline 31/03/2023.

Any questions? Ivan Malcolm D'Silva, ivan.dsilva@rwe.com 

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RWE represents change, innovation and sustainability. As one of the world’s leading generators of electricity from renewable energy sources, we aim to be carbon-neutral by 2040 and to enable a sustainable life for people around the world. To achieve this, we are looking for dynamic and motivated people to join us in creating a sustainable and secure energy future.

RWE Renewables GmbH, based in Essen, Germany, is RWE’s youngest subsidiary and one of the world’s leading companies in the field of renewable energies. With an international team of around 3,500 employees, we are drivers of the energy transition – and provide electricity for a sustainable life. Our total capacity of more than 9 gigawatts results from onshore and offshore wind parks, photovoltaic plants and battery storage. We focus on growth: on the American continent, on the European core markets and on new markets in the Asia-Pacific region.