Electrical Engineer

Description:

Renewables Certification (RC) belongs to Business Area Energy Systems providing advisory, verification and certification services for the Energy industries with 4000 people globally.

DNV Renewables Certification has the global responsibility for Type Certification (TC), Component Certification (CC) and Project Certification (PC) for Renewables within DNV. Currently RC consists of 300+ experts with locations in Beijing, Boston, Busan, Copenhagen, Esbjerg, Dresden, Hamburg, Hvik, Houston, London, Shanghai, Taipei and Tokyo.

DNV Energy System-Renewables Certification (RC) group is seeking an Electrical Engineer Offshore Wind, Professional Engineer (PE) to join our RC team in US.

RC has the global responsibility for Type Certification (TC), Component Certification (CC) and Project Certification (PC) within DNV. Currently RC consists of 300+ experts with locations in Beijing, Boston, Busan, Copenhagen, Dresden, Esbjerg, Hamburg, Hvik, Houston, London, Shanghai, Taipei and Tokyo. RC is the global market leader in the Renewables Certification market and is involved in 80% of Project Certification for offshore wind parks including offshore substations in the world.

The Renewables Certification team delivers services related to the project certification of electrical installation of offshore substations and converter platforms, wind turbines and electrical design of subsea cables in offshore Wind Farms. We provide this as a global service and cover all steps in the certification process from review of early designs to design verification, fabrication surveillance, commissioning, and periodic inspection of installations in operation. We are looking for experienced electrical engineers, with a strong profile and interest in working with renewable energy. Moreover, this team works with offshore subsea cable design and wind turbines. Besides the technical work additional project management activities are expected in relation to the different projects.

In the US, the Code of Federal Regulations, 30 CFR 285 and 585, require that the design, fabrication, transportation, and installation of the entire offshore wind facility is certified by a BOEM/BSEE approved Certified Verification Agent (CVA). DNVs existing position as a PC market leader led to DNV being the first CVA to successfully deliver a Certified Facility Design Report (FDR) and Fabrication and Installation Report (FIR), for first successful US Federal project to reach commercial operations. Today, DNV is the approved CVA for more than 80% of the active projects in the US.

The position is located in our Katy (Houston) or Medford (Boston) office.

What You'll Do
 

• Delivering technical review of the electrical designs required to certify the Wind Turbine Generator (WTG), Electrical Service Platform (ESP) and subsea power cables
• Independent calculations / spot-checks of electrical design, e.g., ampacity, arc flash, etc.
• Project/Package Manager for (one or more) US CVA projects
• Coordination of work tasks and deliveries from other DNV units in US and abroad
• Prepare CVA nomination package including coordinating responses to US authorities BOEM/BSEE with RC Europe on behalf of customers
• Participation in standards development, joint-industry-projects (JIPs) and conferences
• Follow-up with onsite witness of fabrication and transport & installation activities in the US
• Opportunity to work on wind turbine projects globally