Structural Engineer for Leading Foundation Design of Offshore Wind

The BU Offshore in BA Wind is responsible for developing, constructing and operating Offshore wind farms. BU Offshore currently consists of 12 operating windfarms with a total capacity of 4+GW spread across Europe. The operating fleet is supported by strong centralized teams placed across Europe.

In Primary Structures in Foundations we are a core team working with design of foundations for our new sites and helping our existing sites to keep our foundations in good shape. We are driven by a passion to optimize our structures to enable a fossil free future.

Your tasks and responsibilities

• Lead the team of engineers responsible for the monopile design for the Civil Sub-Package of foundation design.
• Support the CID manager on all subjects related to primary structure.
• Deliver primary steel design to the CID manager within scope and timeline.
• Responsible of technical queries related to primary structure, and interfaces to other subjects during design, fabrication, installation and operation.
• Supplying support during development of sites and products.
• Ensure that our quality assurance procedure is followed within primary steel projects.

Location

The role is open to applications for our Vattenfall office locations in Kolding, Hamburg or London. Limited Travel will be required within Europe.

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 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 now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal 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.

Our ideal candidate is in the second stage of the career. You are pro-active and structured, able to navigate complex stakeholder structures, eager to drive change and impact and are able to work in an international environment with colleagues and a manager in different locations.

Your profile

• Graduate degree in structural engineering.
• +5 years’ experience with offshore structural engineering.
• +2 years’ experience with offshore wind (foundation design).
• Been part of detailed offshore design project, with a senior title (foundation lead engineer or similar).
• Good project management and communication skills.
• Ability to plan and execute projects, while also having the skill of deep dive into technical challenges.
• Be able to remain focussed in a busy working environment 

Our offer 

We offer you a challenging and independent job in an informal working environment. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues as ‘Ask and Share’ concept is essential for the way we work. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.

More Information 

We welcome your application in English, no later than, 15th of August 2025. 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. 

For more information about the position you are welcome to contact our Hiring Manager Hans Peter Hertel via mail: hanspeter.hertel@vattenfall.com 

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Sandra Domschke via email: sandra1.domschke@vattenfall.de. 

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

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, Validata. 
 
We look forward to receiving your application!