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Offshore Wind Lead Engineer

Kent
Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy
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Description

Location
Homebased/Remote

Hours
Not specified

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
At Kent we are constantly growing and evolving, and we're always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our team. While we may not have an immediate opening that suits your skills right now, we'd love to stay connected with you for future contingent worker opportunities. By expressing your interest, you’ll be the first to hear about exciting new roles as they become available. We are seeking highly experienced offshore wind professionals capable of acting as technical leads across consultancy and design scopes, particularly for WTG foundations and offshore substations. Individuals should be able to provide technical oversight, lead delivery teams, and contribute to the development of our engineering capability.

Requirements

Experience
- Act as a Lead Engineer on projects, performing duties independently with agreed quality, schedule, and budgets.
- Lead resolution of complex, high-risk or novel technical issues, coordinating internal and external expertise.
- Deliver high-quality outputs ensuring compliance with relevant codes, standards, and internal procedures.
- Interface directly with clients, presenting technical solutions, design justification, and risk positions.
- Engage with technical networks to support innovation and development of designs, design tools, and client offerings.
- Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and quality oversight to engineers and senior engineers.
- Significant experience working for engineering/client organisations in the offshore wind industry.
- Proven track record delivering FEED and detailed design projects for offshore fixed bottom foundations.
- Specialist expertise in one or more key disciplines: engineering management, primary steel design, secondary structures design, grouted connections, geotech and ground modelling.
- Strong ability to influence design decisions and manage technical risk.
- Strong working knowledge of relevant international design codes and certification processes (DNV, IEC, Eurocodes).
- Knowledge of safety and quality procedures and best practice.

About you
Committed to excellence and innovation in offshore wind engineering, with strong leadership and communication skills. Able to work independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams. Enthusiastic about mentoring and developing engineering capability.

Qualifications
Not explicitly stated, but specialist expertise and significant related experience in offshore wind engineering are required.

Expiry date: 25/11/2026
Offshore Wind Lead Engineer
Company:
Kent
Job Type:
Job
Location:
Homebased/Remote