Subsea Cable Specialist Job at DNV’s Renewables Certification

DNV’s Renewables Certification (RC), We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence.

As a trusted voice for many of the world’s most successful organizations, we use our knowledge to advance safety and performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions to tackle global transformations.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Subsea Cable Specialist 

Job Location: Nigeria
Job ID: 5602
Business: Energy Systems
Position type: Full Time
Contract type: Permanent Employee

Job Description

• We are seeking an engineer with a background in subsea cables (electrical or mechanical), to join our RC team in Taipei. RC has the global responsibility for Type Certification (TC), Component Certification (CC) and Project Certification (PC) within DNV Energy Systems. Currently, DNV RC consists of nearly 300 experts with locations in Boston, Busan, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Dresden, London, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei and other cities.
• DNV is a market leader in Renewables Certification, and we work with the leading OEM’s in the TC wind market and are involved in more than 80% of PC for offshore wind parks in the world.
• Offshore wind in Taiwan will continue to grow in order to meet the government’s ambitious offshore wind targets – this will mean more fixed-bottom and eventually floating projects.
• To meet this demand, RC is expanding its team in the Taiwan and therefore seeks highly skilled and motivated persons to represent RC services in the rapidly growing offshore wind market.
• Overall responsibility of the position is to perform technical review work of the of the subsea power cables (and their interfaces to the wind turbine generators, offshore substation, and onshore termination) in collaboration with RC colleagues across our global organization.
• Technical review of subsea power cables considers the electrical, mechanical and interface designs, including manufacturing, transportation, and installation (with focus on CBRA, burial assessment studies, cable route design and secondary structures).
• Successful candidates may also perform onsite witnessing of fabrication, transportation, and installation work and/or serve as asset package or project managers for Taiwan offshore wind projects.

Responsibilities

• Delivering technical review in one or more of the certification work tasks related to the certification of subsea power cables
• Project/Package Manager for (one or more) Taiwan projects
• Coordination of work tasks and deliveries from other DNV units in Taiwan and abroad
• Participation in standards development, joint-industry-projects (JIPs) and conferences
• Follow-up with onsite witness of fabrication and transport & installation activities in the Taiwan, Korea or other fabrication locations.
• Not only working on Taiwan projects, there are opportunities with international projects as well

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in relevant engineering background.
• Professional Engineer (P.E.) licensure is preferred.
• At least 4 years of engineering experience with preference towards subsea power cables, umbilicals, or similar. Understanding of Certification services and processes preferred.
• Knowledge of applicable standards and recommendations, e.g., IEC, IEEE, CIGRE, DNV, NFPA, NEMA, UL, etc., is required.
• Experience in managing projects or small teams is preferred.
• Highly professional and credible presence during interaction with customers and within DNV across all management levels
• Excellent networking skills. Ability to build and maintain relationships with colleagues and customers.
• Strong commercial attitude and strategic mind-set. Highly self-motivated and result oriented
• Well organized & proactive, able to successfully work in a fast paced and competitive environment with diverse people – clients and co-workers
• Willingness and ability to travel
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Good Chinese or Korean language skills a plus (both in writing and speaking).

Note: 

• Security and compliance with statutory requirements in the countries in which we operate is essential for DNV.
• Background checks will be conducted on all final candidates as part of the offer process, in accordance with applicable country-specific laws and practices.