Wind Engineer

DNV is an independent expert that provides assurance to the entire energy value chain through our advisory, monitoring, verification, and certification services. As the world's leading resource of independent energy experts and technical advisors, we help industries and governments to navigate the many complex, interrelated transitions taking place in the energy industry. We are committed to realising the goals of the Paris Agreement, and supporting all stakeholders to transition faster to a deeply decarbonized energy system.

DNV has a presence in over 100 countries worldwide. In Australia, from our offices in Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth, we have worked in the energy industry for over 20 years, providing trusted advice to developers, operators, investors, financiers and stakeholders of renewable energy projects since the early 2000s.

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the world’s leading energy consultancies and one of the pre-eminent renewable engineering consultancies in the world, DNV.

About the team

In the Wind team of our Project Engineering & Due Diligence section, you will get to be involved in the inspection, review, feasibility and assessment of renewable energy projects. This role will see you working alongside other wind engineering specialists, and other teams within the Energy Systems landscape, such as the Solar, Civil, and Energy Storage Teams, to provide technical consulting services throughout the development, financing, procurement and construction phases of large-scale wind farms, solar farms, battery energy storage systems and hybrid renewable energy projects.

We help our customers achieve their project goals, by using our technical skills to conduct high-quality analyses, evaluaterisks, and provide robust answers to difficult questions. We're predominantly engineers with a knack for skillfully using our tools, processes, knowledge and experience get the answers we need. 

• Wellbeing: DNV understands the importance of physical and mental wellbeing and aligned with our value of caring for our people, we have a ‘Be Well’ program in place. 
• Bonus opportunity: We believe it is important to reward our employees with an annual discretionary profit scheme or sales incentive scheme – depending on your role.

• Insurances: DNV covers permanent employees for life and total permanent disability insurance as well as salary continuance insurance to safeguard you within our DNV Superannuation scheme.

• Parental and long service leave:  DNV has a generous parental leave and long service leave policy. 

• Hybrid work: We offer a hybrid work model to foster our culture while providing you with working flexibility.

• Professional membership: We will support you with membership fees for your relevant governing body applicable to your position. 

• Social activities: To foster our culture, we enjoy regular social get togethers. 

The above benefits may slightly vary depending on employment type. 

DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this.

What we are looking for

We're busy, and so we're looking for someone to join us in an Engineer to Senior Engineer level role.

If your answer to most of these questions is “yes”, then we'd love to chat!

• Are you passionate about renewable energy and playing a role in the energy transition?
• Do you understand how wind projects work, and are able to apply that understanding to evaluating project feasibility or risks?
• Are you great at building insight and understanding of a project from careful analysis of detailed project information?
• Do you have a knack for using engineering models or tools to understand the behavior or characteristics of complex systems?
• Are you logical, creative, and organised, and able to manage projects efficiently and effectively?
• Do you have the technical competence and judgement to interpret and review complex analyses to ensure technical accuracy and quality?
• Do you enjoy engaging with customers to understand their problems, and propose and demonstrate the value of technical solutions?
• Can you build strong relationships with colleagues by exhibiting a genuine working style?
• Are you always looking for new and better ways of tackling technical challenges? 
• Do you enjoy being able to clearly and concisely communicate the outcomes from your work to those who need it most? 
• Are you ready to be part of an experienced, caring, friendly team who want to work cooperatively with you to realise great outcomes?

About the role

Here are some of the things we do. It would be great if you already have experience with some of these tasks, but if not, we are happy to help you develop your skillset:

• Technical due diligence of pre-construction through to operational wind farms
• Providing assurance on project viability through pre-feasibility and red-flag assessments
• Developing technical specifications & providing assistance to clients for all aspects of wind farm development and construction
• Undertake life extension assessments of operational wind farms
• Developing, reviewing and executing Lenders and Independent Engineer scopes of work
• Getting out on site and undertaking inspection services for wind farms
• Conducting greenfield site visits to appraise the characteristics of potential development sites
• Review of feasibility studies for wind farms
• Failure investigations (including root cause analysis) of wind farm components
• Assisting clients with procurement, including contract negotiation and tendering.

As well as the technical elements of our work, we are continually engaging with various customers and stakeholders, including developers, investors, financiers, planning authorities and others. Some of the other important non-technical parts of our work include:

• engaging with a wide range of clients, including developers and financial institutions, to establish how our capabilities can help answer their questions
• Developing compelling proposals that explain how our services can meet customer needs
• Working on multiple projects and managing our time to meet project targets
• Executing projects successfully through careful project management
• Producing comprehensive high-quality written reports and other documentation for delivery to the client
• Explaining and discussing important results and outcomes from our work with customers or other stakeholders. 
• Conducting careful quality assurance checking of deliverables
• Supporting continuous improvement and development of group procedures 
• Delivering insightful presentations to customers or other industry stakeholders

Finally, and on a more personal note:

• We are a welcoming and supportive team who value the benefits and strength that come from diversity.
• We have strong local and global heritage and we regularly work with knowledgeable and experienced colleagues from around the world.
• We offer competitive renumeration and leave allowances, including paid and unpaid parental leave, and flexible working arrangements.
• We’re focused on staying at the forefront of the industry though regular investment in research and innovation, and are supportive of employee development.
• We’ve worked hard to stay close and support each other in recent years, when we have all increasingly worked from home, and look forward to extending the same support to you throughout whatever challenges the coming years present.

If this appeals to you, we’d love to talk about whether you could find a place in our wind team.

What is required

The ideal candidate will have:

• Bachelor of Engineering or Science degree in wind or renewable energy or other relevant discipline (i.e. mechanical, civil, electrical engineering with relevant professional experience)
• At least 3 years of professional experience

Knowledge, skills and experience required for the position are:

• Experience in the wind industry
• Project management skills and experience
• Good organization and time management skills
• Adaptability, and able to cope with a wide variety of tasks
• Ability to produce clear written reports and communicate verbally in English
• Ability to work effectively with colleagues in a team environment
• Flexibility, adaptability, and creativity
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Word and Excel.

Experience in, or familiarity with, any of the following would be great, but is not essential:

• Wind farm, solar farm or battery energy storage system design and/or construction
• Technical due diligence of wind farms, solar farms or battery energy storage systems for acquisition or project financing
• Providing Owners Engineering and Lenders Engineering services for wind projects
• Experience with building and maintaining professional relationships with customers
• Experience in developing proposals for work, including budgets, appropriate contractual terms, and undertaking negotiations on scope and price with customers.

 Physical abilities:

• Normal office environment, involving regular walking, sitting, bending, twisting, standing and reaching.
• Some domestic and international travel to other company office locations, site locations, client offices and conferences.
• Occasional work outdoors including site visits, travelling by car up to six hours and walking on uneven terrain may be required. 

The role will involve on the job training as well as other training internally or externally.  The candidate will be expected to demonstrate initiative and self-motivation. Support, mentoring and training, as appropriate, will be provided by senior team members.

 Sometimes our site inspections require climbing wind turbines. Although not mandatory for this role, if it is something you would be open to doing, note that reasonable physical fitness is required, and you should be comfortable working at heights.

The right to live and work in Australia (Visa, Permanent Residency, Citizenship) is not essential but will be viewed favorably.