Buchan Offshore Wind is the developer of a major floating offshore wind farm 75 km to the northeast of Fraserburgh on the Aberdeenshire coast. With an anticipated capacity of close to 1GW and a connection date of 2033, the project would feature up to 70 turbines and has the potential to generate the equivalent of the annual power needs of some 1.4 million British homes.
A dynamic, committed and focused project team has seen the project deliver on its key milestones to date, with offshore surveys completed and offshore and onshore scoping reports both submitted. Importantly, the survey programme to date has reinforced our belief that there are no major barriers to securing a consent for the site, and the team is now working towards submitting the full planning application in the first half of 2025 and delivering on the project’s engineering roadmap.
The project’s selection of BW Ideol’s patented Damping Pool floating substructure has the potential to both accelerate delivery and generate significant levels of employment in Scotland, with BW Ideol actively working to establish a manufacturing centre at the former oil and gas fabrication yard at Port of Ardersier.
The joint venture has three equal partners, with highly relevant and complementary capability and expertise: BayWa r.e., a global renewable energy business with UK offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh; BW Ideol, a proven floating technology leader and international floating wind project co-developer; and Elicio, an experienced Belgian offshore wind developer, owner and operator.
The Role
The Projects Control Lead is a critical role driving the development and delivery of the Buchan Offshore Wind project, reporting directly to the Commercial Director. The objective of the role is to support the project in:
* Delivering the development phase on schedule and budget,
* Appropriately managing risk across all phases of development, and
* Driving efficient and effective integration across project teams.
The successful candidate will be responsible for enhancing and delivering the project controls strategy for the Buchan Offshore Wind project. This major multi-billion-pound infrastructure project will include up to 70 WTGs and associated floating foundations, up to 3 offshore substation platforms, 1 intermediate reactive compensation platform, a cable route of circa 90km offshore, 30 km of onshore cable and a HVAC substation connecting to SSE’s onshore transmission system.
The project is currently finalising design to support the consenting process and is progressing to concept design phase stage and is beginning to accelerate the engineering design activities. The Project Controls Lead will enhance and implement the project controls strategy, working with an integrated engineering, planning and project team to ensure the controls function enables this critical infrastructure project to deliver on time and budget with good risk management.
Key Responsibilities
The Project Controls Lead will join to lead the formative stages of the project development with an intent to lead and deliver project controls aspects of the project through to Financial Investment Decision (FID) and beyond. In this role, the candidate will lead a number of critical aspects of the project, including:
* Working alongside an integrated commercial, consenting, technical and project management team to enhance the project controls strategy for the project, identifying the priorities and processes to control budget, schedule and risk.
* Maintaining a development schedule aligned to the project development strategy, ensuring the schedule is appropriately detailed and the critical path is understood.
* Reviewing and reporting on delivery against the schedule, ensuring that critical path and key activities are monitored.
* Oversight and delivery of the project risk management functions, ensuring appropriate processes to identify, assess and mitigate project risks.
* Supporting the project in budgeting and monitoring of costs through enhancing cost reporting processes.
* Developing the project reporting, identifying key metrics that are material to project success.
* Ensuring change management processes are integrated into the overall project delivery.
* Supporting the Commercial and Project Director in identifying ongoing resourcing requirements.
* Collaborating with the wider project team in delivering the project controls processes.
* Line management of project staff and external controls.
* Supporting the project leadership group to ensure that collaboration and integration is a core part of the team culture.
* Supporting the project governance processes, including reporting to and engagement with shareholders.
* Maintaining the Project Execution Plan, ensuring project management and controls process are regularly developed and reviewed.
* Identifying opportunities to implement project controls processes that enable successful project delivery.
Candidate Requirements
The role is anticipated to be fulfilled by an experienced Project Controls professional who has demonstrable experience in the development of major energy or other infrastructure projects. While experience of offshore wind projects is desirable, experience on offshore or onshore energy projects such as oil & gas or energy transmission would provide relevant and transferable skills.
Essential skills for the role include:
* Degree in Project Management, Engineering or other relevant STEM discipline.
* Chartered Project Management Professional in a relevant institution such as the Association for Project Management (APM).
* Approx. 6 years + project controls experience of development infrastructure projects with a focus on early development stages up to FID.
* Agile and adaptable, with experience in working in major project environments.
* Strong communicator, able to work effectively with a range of people across engineering and non-engineering disciplines.
* Advanced skills in MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, PowerBI and Primavera/ MS Project or equivalent.
* Strong analytical skills.
* Knowledge and experience of the UK and global offshore wind sectors.
* Strong people management skills with a proven track record in creating and maintaining high functioning teams.
* Experience in fixed/ floating offshore and/or offshore transmission development.
* Experience in construction phase of offshore wind and/or other major infrastructure projects.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Project Management and Information Technology
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