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O&M Manager - France - Onshore Wind / France, Europe
Added: | 2022-04-07 |
Location: | France, Europe |
Salary: | €50000 - €55000 per annum + 10% bonus, company car + benefits |
Duration: | Permanent |
Apjid | 3 |
We are currently searching for a O&M Manager, based in the North-East region of France (Amiens, Saint Quentin, Reims, Dijon to join the client, one of Europe's leading renewable energy developers and constructors, headquartered in Germany. The O&M Manager will be responsible for ensuring the North-East France wind farms are operated and managed with a high focus on safety, production maximisation and commercial awareness. The role may have line management accountabilities depending on the contractual status of the wind farm. The O&M Manager may manage a team of technicians or interface with contractors whilst being accountable for all aspects of operations and maintenance of the onshore wind farms under their responsibility.
Main responsibilities:
Health, Safety & Environmental Leadership
- Support incident investigations and reporting requirements
- Ensuring all assets are compliant with relevant legislative and internal safety process requirements
- Review of Safety Alerts and Notices and implementation of lessons learnt.
- Setting to work and Tool-box talk provisions
- Management of inductions in accordance with induction procedure.
- Ensure a Safe System of Work is in place and adhered to in respect of all work taking place across the portfolio.
- Manage contractor safety, including review of all submitted documentation (e.g. Risk Assessments and Method Statements.)
- Produce, update and maintain working procedures, ensuring compliance is maintained with relevant formal business procedures.
- Accommodate and conduct regular safety audits and initiatives across the portfolio, ensuring all actions arising are resolved in a timely manner.
- Enact the role of Emergency Coordinator sites under their responsibility
Technical & Performance Responsibilities
- Site performance reporting
- Reviewing O&M plans for wind farms under their accountability to agreed targets.
- Active contract management ensuring that contractors deliver all of the contracted services to agreed specification.
- High Voltage (HV) authorised for the sites under their responsibility
- Utilising the works management system to control access, record works completed and identify any nonconformance
- Performance analysis using current and future technology
- Identify, evaluate and implement continuous improvement projects
Commercial & Financial Responsibilities
- Support tendering activities required in relation to the wind farms under their responsibility
- Support the Medium-Term Plan (MTP) in conjunction with the Asset Manager
- Provide detailed feedback on the performance of contractors to ensure quality service
- Operating the wind farm to budget as per agreed MTP and follow appropriate processes for obtaining prior approval for unplanned spend, where required.
Stakeholder Management
- Liaising with external stakeholders on operational challenges (Landowners, Community Groups, Local Government) to maintain positive working relationships
- Maintain positive communications with the functional teams (e.g. Engineering, HSE, technical, Control Room, Procurement, Asset Management etc)
- Ensure an effective handover from construction to Operations phase by fully understanding assets from an early stage and ensuring that all systems are implemented, and documentation is in place.
Personal
- Ensure all mandatory training, as defined in the training matrix, is kept up to date for self and by all team members.
Other responsibilities
- Day to day decisions in relation to the wind farm, scheduling and prioritisation of resources
- Operational restriction implementation and removal
- Safety decisions in relation to plant integrity (shutting down asset)
- Restricting of access to the wind farm to ensure production is maximised
- Budgetary (in line with Medium Term Plans) Generation plan MWH, OPEX
- Site Improvement and CAPEX project management
- Wind Farm Availability depending on contract
- Production of KPIs for site performance; HSE, availability, budgetary control etc.
Works alongside:
- External windfarm stakeholders e.g. land owners, O&M providers, OEMs, Suppliers etc.
- Asset Manager ; HSE Manager
- Country Manager Onshore Operations ; Head of Southern Europe Onshore Operations
- Asset Management Engineering Teams
- Other functional Departments, Procurement, Control Room, Operational Excellence.
- Local Communities & Local authorities (emergency services)
Profile
- A technical qualification in Engineering discipline - Mechanical, Electrical, HV C&I or demonstratable equivalent.
- At least 5 years' experience working in the Energy Industry preferably renewables with a demonstratable history of Maintenance Management and Operations.
- Experience of operating within safety, environmental and operational policies, frameworks and statutory legislation.
- Strong leadership, people management and coaching skills, leading local and international teams
Additional skills
- Experienced in Contract Management and managing HSE.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, influencing & negotiating skills with a successful demonstratable history.
- Strong organisational, time management and planning skills.