Lead Cost Engineer

Imagine a future where you play an active role in estimating CAPEX cost of Offshore Wind Farm Projects

Join us in this role where you’ll be instrumental in implementing and executing our strategic ambitions. You’ll be onboarded in our current methodologies, and with initial support of a colleague have your own scopes and responsibilities, working with a wide range of stakeholders to drive industry best Cost Engineering.

Welcome to Cost Engineering
You’ll be part of Bid and Cost Excellence where you, together with your colleagues, will be working to bridge the global CAPEX cost engineering discipline with regional Asset projects through development and maturation. Problem-solving and innovation is in our DNA, and you’ll be joining a global team working with both internal and external knowledge and research to improve current methodologies, striving for industry-best practice in a fast-paced and changing environment. As a team, we are characterised by our openness and trust in each other, always valuing and encouraging teamwork and open discussions.

You’ll play an important role in:

• assuming responsibility as the specialist of CAPEX cost estimation, working with scenarios, uncertainties, risks, and opportunities

• gathering and transforming global knowledge from Engineering, Procurement, and Finance into project specific CAPEX estimates

• working with the Project Management to develop and validate CAPEX estimates for business case valuation and maturation

• investigating and advising on the right method and balance between effort and required confidence level, in the context of the individual projects

• working with the wider Asset Project team to ensure quality and transparency of bid inputs and assumptions, in order to support senior management in decision making on Asset Project CAPEX.

To succeed in the role, you:

• possess a strong drive and are self-motivated

• can understand and translate project needs, take decisions, and move things forward

• have a technical and commercial interest and understanding of offshore wind business case drivers

• have good communication skills and are able to report methods and results at the appropriate level to a wide group of people from specialist to senior management

• are energised by working with many stakeholders to solve complex tasks.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accommodation@orsted.com.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.