Structural Engineer for Structural Health Monitoring - Offshore Wind Foundation

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission. 

Business Area Wind is responsible for Vattenfall’s Onshore and Offshore Wind as well as other non-hydro Renewable activities like solar PV and batteries. Today we develop, construct and operate wind generation in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. In addition, we have a clear strategy to develop our solar PV and battery operations further.

Job Description

Do you want to analyze data and develop state-of-the-art tools that support lifetime extension and data-driven design for offshore wind farms?

We are looking for a Structural Engineer with a strong background in structural dynamics and knowledge of structural health monitoring, to ensure the continuous development and maintenance of our in-house structural health monitoring tool and the analysis of data from our offshore wind farms. This includes the creation of digital twins by combining operational modal analysis with finite element updating methods. As part of the development of our in-house tools, you will also analyze data from our existing assets and prepare specialized reports and technical notes with the aim of improving the certainty and methods used for current operations and the design of future offshore wind farms.

We are looking for a Structural Engineer with a solid civil and/or mechanical engineering background, who is able to convert theory and mathematical methods into efficient program code. Your work will enable our Foundation department’s Structural Integrity team to explore

the full potential of lifetime extension and data-driven design and operations for our offshore wind farms.

Your job As our Structural Engineer for structural health monitoring and in-house tool development you will be an integral part of Primary Structures team, working with multiple disciplines across the full Vattenfall organization to deliver Digital Twins. You will need to be able to work independently in an international team, where we meet both virtually and physically.

The main responsibilities include:

• Assess the performance and improve methods for virtual sensing and operational modal analysis.
• Maintaining and developing in-house structural health monitoring tool.
• Ensuring that structural health monitoring tool is up to date and available for the analysis of running assets.
• Performing quality assurance of new implementations in in-house structural health monitoring tool.
• Reporting predicted lifetime and reliability for monitored assets and updating inspection plans.
• Analyzing incoming data and give feedback to site on the current operations
• Use analyzed measurement data to improve the certainty and methods used for the primary steel design.
• Carry out primary structure design in our in-house design tool

Qualifications

Your profile:

You are proactive, practical, and solution-oriented, with strong interpersonal skills. You contribute to an inclusive team culture, support colleagues, and work collaboratively toward shared goals.

• Hold a master’s degree in engineering
• Strong knowledge within dynamic of structures, operational modal analysis and finite element modelling
• Programming skills in Python
• You are systematic and organized in the way you work
• Proficient communication skills in English, both written and verbally.
• You are motivated, engaged, and value collaboration as an effective way to develop solutions

We offer:

We offer an exciting and challenging job, where you will impact the future of design and operations in one of Europe’s largest offshore wind operators. You will be close to the cutting edge of research within structural health monitoring and have the chance to present your work internally during technical seminars. Besides being a challenging and inspiring place to work, we value a great work atmosphere and continuous improvement. We offer good remuneration, attractive employment conditions, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Additional Information

Location:

Office location is Kolding, Copenhagen or Hamburg, occasional travel should be expected.

More information:

For more information about the recruitment process contact Jette Ingeberg, Recruiter on +45 22 57 07 51.

We welcome your application in English, including CV and cover letter via the application button at this page. Last day to apply is the 22nd May.

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

At Vattenfall, we are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be a role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights irrespective of sex, disability, nationality, ethnic and social background, religion and beliefs, age or sexual orientation and identity.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, Disa Global Solutions AB.

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classified the final candidates might be subject to a security vetting process, according to Swedish legislation.

We look forward to receiving your application!