EPCI Manager

JERA Nex is a company created by JERA to scale renewable energy for a sustainable future. JERA Nex combines the resilience of JERA, one of the world’s largest electricity producers, with the agility and focus of a dedicated renewables business that can act at the pace required to drive the global energy transition.

JERA Nex invests in, currently owns and operates a portfolio of renewable energy assets, with a portfolio over 3GW that includes offshore wind, onshore wind and solar, as well as battery storage. This includes Parkwind, its wholly owned subsidiary. Headquartered in London, and with centres of excellence in Belgium, Japan, Taiwan and the US, our team of more than 300 renewable and energy industry experts combines global knowhow and experience with the local expertise and knowledge necessary to deliver successful projects.

In cooperation with the Project Director, the EPCI Project Manager oversees a construction project for a utility-scale offshore wind power plant. They form a team that are ultimately responsible for the successful completion of the offshore windfarm. The focus of the EPCI Project Director is on the design, engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning, from the early planning to the handing-over to the O&M Department, and on the supply chain side of the project, and including planning and interface management.

The focus of the Project Director is towards external and internal stakeholder management and financing, general coordination, cost control, support, etc.

Hierarchically within the project’s organisation, the EPCI Project Manager reports to the Project Director who, in turn, reports to the project owners’ governance body or bodies appointed to oversee the project. The EPCI Project Manager may be called upon to provide updates on the technical progress of the project personally to such governance body.

Leading a team of Package Managers, Package Engineers, Planning Engineers, Interface Manager and technical experts allocated in varying degrees to the project, the EPCI Project Manager is responsible for the technical and economic feasibility and efficiency of both the EPCI process and the resulting asset. He/she will coordinate between the various technical and supporting functions such as the technical disciplines (WTG, ELEC, FND, O&M) and QAQC/HSSE, contracting, finance, project controls etc., and ensure that all interfaces are diligently dealt with.

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Key tasks and responsibilities

• Ensure that relevant HSE requirements are satisfied within the activities, whether these requirements are defined by legislation, regulations, contract, or project plans.
• Make, implement, and maintain a milestone plan for the initiation and completion of the project.
• Manage the team of Package Managers (WTG, ELEC, FND) that are in charge of, and ultimately responsible for the safe, timely and cost-efficient design, engineering, construction, commissioning and hand-over of their package.
• Ensure that human resource plan for the project is established and kept up to date by the Package Managers in consultation with their (Discipline)Team Leads and with the other functional Team Leads.
• Establish the overall EPCI planning (including the individual packages’ planning) for the project in line with the overall project planning, follow up that planning and take necessary actions if deviations occur.
• Proactively ensure that project interfaces are under control and properly allocated and managed.
• Ensure that the necessary recommendations on choices between solutions and suppliers are generated and approved in line with the project’s governance requirements in a timely manner.
• Take on a proactive role in identifying and controlling risks for the project.
• Based on the input of the Package Managers, establish the overall CAPEX budget and related contingencies.
• Ensure that the OPEX budget is established in concert with the O&M Team.
• Coordinate throughout the development and construction phase the interaction between the budget and the overall finance functions on the project in consultation with the Project Director.
• Follow-up on the budget until hand-over to O&M.
• Follow up on, and if necessary, steer the (Front-End) Engineering and Design work and ensure coordination between the contractual Employer Requirements within the various packages.
• Establish and follow-up on the overall project contracting strategy with due regard for the project owner’s and financing preferences, but also for the market conditions.
• Follow-up and coordinate the overall procurement process and ensure timely securing of the required contracts.
• Take on a role of 2nd line negotiator in the various negotiations within the procurement process.
• In a FIDIC context, take on the role of FIDIC Engineer on the project whereby the Package Managers will be the Engineer’s Assistants for the contracts within their package.
• Ensure that the supplied and constructed equipment, components, tools, services are carefully and diligently checked to be in compliance with the Employer Requirements and Contract’s specification through focused reviews, inspections, witnessing etc.
• Ensure that the contracts are managed proactively by the Package Managers and their teams to allow safe, qualitative, timely and within budget delivery of the functioning assets to O&M, thereby maintaining a good and strong relationship with the key contractors and suppliers.
• Take on a role of 2nd line negotiator in conflicts with contractors or suppliers that are not being resolved at Package Manager level.

Who You Are

• You obtained a master’s degree in engineering and have a strong technical background.
• You have minimum 5 years of experience in project management for offshore infrastructure projects, preferably in leading the construction of offshore windfarms.
• You have a profound understanding of the commercial aspects of the offshore market.
• You have a strong appetite for working in the international environment of offshore renewables.
• You have effective interpersonal skills and leadership abilities.
• You have a strong teambuilding attitude.
• You have strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• You are open to occasionally travel, up to 5 days per month average.

Who We Are And What We Offer

• Start-up and entrepreneurial environment in a company that is part of a larger, well-funded and long-term ambition to contribute to global decarbonization.
• Opportunity to define your workplace. We are starting out and every idea counts!
• A job that is part of making our world a greener and better place.
• International team that benefits from our different perspectives, backgrounds and experiences
• We are high-performing and ambitious individuals who also enjoy our private lives. We hope you can identify with that.
• We believe in the benefit of flexible working hours and location and appreciate that we see one another in person regularly.
• We are not afraid to admit that we don’t know things but also proactively look to solve problems and work collaboratively.
• We work hard but also want to have fun at the same time, we’re on an exciting journey.

Established in 2015, JERA is an equal joint venture of TEPCO Fuel & Power, Incorporated and Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. JERA is a Japanese company with significant and global portfolio of international energy assets. It has industry leading expertise scaling the entire fuel and power supply chain, from upstream fuel investments to fuel procurement, trading and transportation, to power generation development, construction and operation. JERA’s mission is to contribute to an internationally competitive supply of power and energy and to invigorate the standard of living, industry and economy around the world.