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Environment & Sustainability Specialist – Business Area Wind Energy
Environment & Sustainability Specialist at Vattenfall in Business Area Wind
Do you want to shape the future?
– Join our journey towards Fossil Free Living within one generation.
Vattenfall is one of Europe´s largest electricity generators and producer of heat, with
operations in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. Our strategy is to
reduce emissions from power generation with an ambition to become fossil free within one
generation.
Business Area Wind is responsible for Vattenfall’s Onshore and Offshore Wind as well as
other non-hydro Renewable activities like Solar and Batteries. Today we develop, construct
and operate renewable energy generation in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.
other non-hydro Renewable activities like Solar and Batteries. Today we develop, construct
and operate renewable energy generation in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.
We are now looking for the right person to fill the position as Environment & Sustainability Specialist within our BA Wind Environment & Sustainability Unit for the Technology & Roadmap Team.
Overall purpose of the role
The position of the Environment & Sustainability Specialist will focus on providing operational and technical environmental & sustainability support and advice to our Offshore & Onshore organization to ensure environmental and sustainable considerate design. Aim is to ensure our ability to deliver standardized and competitive future windfarms and cover the entire windfarm technology scope (e.g. turbines, substations, cables, foundations), where the responsibilities are to develop all products and systems used in a windfarm, including product maturation, contracting and hand-over to Asset Projects and subsequently construction, operation & decommissioning.
Key areas of work will be to
- Provide environmental and sustainability support and advice during product development and design for onshore and offshore wind farms.
- Facilitate implementation of sustainable solutions in close collaboration with our Offshore Onshore departments.
- Ensure compliance to Vattenfall standards and alignment with legal/permit requirements.
- Conduct and review environmental risk assessments
- Carry out Contractor Management during design and manufacturing.
- Provide environmental support during procurement, including contractor evaluations and negotiations.
- Ensure that product design support the Vattenfall purpose of enabling fossil free living within one generation.
Your profile
- Degree in relevant environmental discipline
- At least 5 years of experience from an environmental support organization within the renewable energy sector
- Experience from both onshore and offshore wind
- Detailed knowledge of environmental aspects and impacts across the lifetime of windfarms
- Good understanding of environmental legislation and best practice
- Fluent English language
- Insight into product engineering processes is preferable
- Insight into GHG and Nox, Sox emissions is preferable
- Good communication skills
- Solution oriented and self-driven
We offer
A challenging and independent job in an informal and international working environment. You will be working in international and interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues with ‘Ask and Share’ being central to our way of working. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.
Location
Denmark (Kolding), The Netherlands (Amsterdam), United Kingdom (Hexham) or Germany (Hamburg). Regular business trips will be required.
We welcome your application with CV and cover letter via our jobsite no later than March 7th 2021. Applications sent by email will not be taken into consideration.
For more information about the position you are welcome to contact Team Lead ENSU Technology & Roadmaps Lasse Fast Jensen, +45 27874953, for questions about our recruitment process, you are welcome to contact our recruiter Anneli Jarlsheim +46 72 585 28 76.
Union representatives in Sweden: They can all be reached via Vattenfall’s switchborad: +46 (0) 8-739 50 00.) Rolf Ohlsson – Akademikernas, Christer Gustavsson – Ledarna , Rebecka Hedsell – SEKO, Anders Bohlin – Unionen
Our organisation
BA Wind is responsible for the development, construction, and operation of wind and solar power. We manage the maintenance, operation, and continuous improvement of wind and solar/PV generation assets, safely and with the highest levels of availability and profitability.
At Vattenfall, we are convinced that striving for diversity & inclusion helps building a more attractive, efficient, customer centric and profitable company. Therefore we welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, religious belief, gender identity & expression, sexual identity, disability and ethnic background