# Senior Project Engineers - Substations and Export Cables

**Company**: Vattenfall
**Location**: Kolding, Denmark
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

Vattenfall is seeking Senior Project Engineers to strengthen their offshore transmission engineering capabilities within Business Area Wind, Offshore, Engineering. The successful candidates will play a key role in one of the most exciting pipelines in the industry with 24GW of capacity stretching out more than a decade ahead across Europe.

The Senior Project Engineers will take ownership of assigned engineering work packages, from FEED and tendering through delivery and handover. They will apply their experience to shape and challenge supplier solutions from the owner's perspective, coordinate technical expertise, and resolve delivery issues.

Responsibilities:

- Deliver assigned engineering work packages in accordance with contractual requirements and project and contract milestones.

- Plan and coordinate activities, and monitor and report on safety, quality, progress, and cost within the scope.

- Apply a systems engineering mindset to ensure decisions support the performance, integration, optimisation, and delivery of the overall transmission system.

- Keep the design basis, requirements, interface decisions, and contractual scope aligned.

- Work with Interface Managers and project teams to define and resolve technical and contractual interfaces.

- Assess supplier proposals and technical decisions with safety as the highest priority.

- Coordinate technical specialist input and challenge unnecessary complexity and over-specification in supplier solutions.

- Identify and manage scope-related risks and opportunities.

- Support supplier qualification and technical evaluation.

- Follow supplier engineering while respecting supplier design responsibility.

- Coordinate manufacturing quality surveillance and support factory acceptance testing.

- Provide engineering input to construction and commissioning teams.

- Share lessons learned and contribute to improving requirements, engineering practices, and project delivery.

Qualifications:

- B.Sc. or M.Sc. in electrical engineering, power engineering, or another relevant engineering discipline.

- At least five years of relevant engineering experience.

- Experience in major project development or delivery, including technical oversight, interface coordination, or acceptance of supplier work.

- Experience reviewing and challenging contractor, OEM, and cable supplier engineering.

- A systems engineering mindset.

- Strong safety and engineering judgement.

- Commercial awareness of how technical choices affect CAPEX, OPEX, schedule, contractual risk, and project delivery.

- Self-motivated and able to work autonomously.

- Professional working proficiency in English.

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## Skills

### Required
- electrical engineering
- power engineering
- systems engineering
- HV substations
- subsea export cable systems
- onshore HV cable systems

### Nice to have
- owner-side experience
- multi-contract delivery experience
- technical oversight
- interface coordination

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