Project Manager for portfolio projects in offshore wind

Join us in this role where you’ll be our new project manager for contingency projects in Generation and where you will project manage and act as the one point of contact for regional and central stakeholders in relation to large cross-portfolio projects.

Welcome to Main Component Supply & Major Incidents Contingency
You’ll be part of Major Incident Contingency where you, together with your colleagues, will develop appropriate contingency plan setups to raise the regional preparedness in dealing with major incidents impacting our wind farms and subsea cables. You’ll be the contingency focal point for the regions and towards our suppliers via cross-portfolio vessel and critical spare parts framework agreements and should therefore be energized and skilled in juggling many internal and external stakeholders.

As a team, we we value trust, openness, a healthy work environment and an informal tone. Our team members are empowered and encouraged to make decisions on the projects they are responsible for.

You’ll play an important role in:

• Identifying the main priorities in our contingency planning based on an overall Generation portfolio risk picture

• Establishing the overall governance and plan for managing and progressing with the contingency projects and specific plans

• Setting up regional cable contingency projects (CCP) and defining appropriate support level/demand from the regions as cables, have already been identified as being a major risk

• Joining project teams responding to cable failures and other emergency projects in order to capture lessons learned for the benefit of the portfolio

• Developing and maintaining portfolio contingency processes, policies, framework agreements and templates.

To succeed in the role, you:

• Have a strong technical background (engineering qualification or similar) and a good commercial understanding

• Preferably have 5 years of operational experience in working with offshore cables and/or other relevant offshore electrical engineering experience

• Have solid project management experience

• Have excellent stakeholder management skills and can effortlessly juggle multiple (and different) regional stakeholder setups as well as effectively communicate to senior management and specialists alike

• Ideally have previous experience with risk or contingency management.

Additional info: You should expect some travelling in relation to your work.

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Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accommodation@orsted.com.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.

About the job
Application deadline:
17 May 2025

Location:
Gentofte, DK Barrow-in-Furness, GB Skærbæk, DK Grimsby, GB

Field of work:
Operations and technicians

Employment type:
Permanent

Work hours:
Full-time

Workplace:
Hybrid (office and home-working)

Imagine a future with Ørsted

About Ørsted
- We develop, construct, and operate offshore and onshore wind farms, solar energy farms, storage facilities, and bioenergy plants in Europe, Asia, and North America.

- Our vision is to create a world that runs entirely on green energy.

- We’ve been ranked as one of the world’s most sustainable energy companies for the past six years.

- We’re headquartered in Denmark.

- We have over 8,600 employees, working in 15 countries and growing.

An inclusive team
Ørsted wants all employees to have the same opportunities for impact and growth, regardless of age, nationality, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or beliefs. We’re committed to secure an inclusive work environment characterised by a respect for all people so everyone feels free to openly share their input and ideas.