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Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager

  • Location Denmark - Flexible
  • Travel required Yes - up to 25%
  • Job category Project Management Group
  • Relocation available No
  • Job type Professionals
  • Job code 148408BR
  • Experience level Senior
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Job summary

Rapidly growing its renewables business is core to bp’s strategy – by 2030 bp aims to have developed around 50GW of net renewable generating capacity up from 3.3GW in 2020.
We are looking to hire great people to join our offshore wind team in Denmark. You will work alongside other bp leaders in country and region to harness the best of bp for the region to create an integrated energy offering. You will also work with the region's teams, and global offshore wind teams (i.e. bid support / tender excellence, construction management) to shape and develop the strategic direction of the offshore portfolio.

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Technical Project Manager, offshore wind

The role primary location is Denmark, but other European and remote locations will be considered for exceptional candidates with prior offshore wind experience.
You will join us in Technical Project Management where we are building a team to deliver our ambitious renewables targets with competitive bids on deliverable projects, building on bp’s major projects expertise. You will have the unique opportunity to be in from the start so you can use your experience to set things up right from the very beginning.
As the Technical Project Manager, within Offshore Wind Engineering, you will work on international projects at all stages of planning, alongside experts from consultancies, contractors, government entities and other stakeholders. You will contribute to competitive auctions (for seabed leases and power offtake agreements), tenders and Merger and Acquisition (M&A) opportunities.

In this role You will:
  • Provide technical input into bids (seabed lease and/or offtake) and project development phase (to FID).
  • Manage interfaces across all engineering packages and procurement
  • Provide leadership and direction to subject matter experts, package managers, consultant and contractor engineering teams and maintain those relationships
  • Ensure that key interfaces, risks, opportunities and actions within OFW engineering are tracked, managed and necessary interventions identified and closed out
  • Manage the development of an optimised and competitive LCoE, by working with internal experts and consultants to define DEVEX, CAPEX, OPEX and wind energy assessment
  • Understand, quantify and articulate project delivery risk to enable transparent and fully informed business decisions to be made by project leadership
  • Ensure adherence to OFW engineering verification processes by both bp and contractors.
  • Oversee production of reference cases, concept designs, design bases and assumptions underpinning cost estimates and delivery schedules
  • Make presentations to technical and business leadership teams
  • Ensure knowledge transfer between projects, capturing lessons learned and continuous improvement

What You will need to be successful:
  • Engineering Degree in a relevant discipline, ideally MSc/MEng.
  • Chartered or Professional Engineering accreditation is desirable
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in the energy industry, with a minimum of two years in offshore wind or similar projects
  • Self-starter; inclusive and respectful individual capable of building strong relationships, influencing and collaborating with others; understanding the big picture and driving focus on what matters
  • Ability to work with complex, ambiguous and limited data
  • Able to motivate, engage and drive performance of a large team of specialists

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