R Area Manager Spain (Open)
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Accountable for the supervision, management, and performance delivery of your assigned Area, you will represent the Company interests, engaging with various internal and external stakeholders, focusing on availability of the assets and their profitability.
Take responsibility for safety in your Area, ensuring compliance with regulations.
Oversee Health, Safety, Quality, and Environmental standards across the wind farm portfolio.
Implement Safety Rules and health and safety management systems across wind farms.
Conduct regular audits of contractors on site for HSQE compliance.
Lead emergency planning with regular exercises to prove effectiveness.
Commercial
Accountable for delivering works within a defined budget while maximizing profit.
Drive commercial performance of wind farms, reducing operational expenditures.
Ensure identification and correction of underperformance, collaborating with key contractors and internal support functions.
Manage the PRs / POs generation process within the corporate ERP system and corporate policy
Ensure timely payments and OPEX reconciliation supporting the corporate accounting function.
Generate accurate annual budgets for Operating and Capital expenditures.
In collaboration with P&C (Planning & Control) corporate function, review budgets regularly, providing reforecasting costs at regular intervals.
Ensure the implementation of all the performance improvements to enhance profitability without compromising safety or quality.
Ensure wind farms operate to Best Practice, focusing on technical availability for maximum generation.
Identify and mitigate risks that could impact performance targets.
Conduct regular checks and inspections on contractors for safe and high-quality activities.
Contract Management
Manage the key service contracts and ensure the team manages all contractors to deliver high performance.
Coordinate the implementation of scheduled work plans with a fine tuning approach designed to maximize the profitability through synergies and efficient allocation of resources.
Ensure activities of all contractors align with contract scope and are completed safely.
Conduct regular contractor audits to ensure governance against contract deliverables.
Review and discuss performance with contractors, highlighting improvement areas.
Project manage works on-site to ensure timely and budgeted completion with minimal impact on performance.
Conduct regular meetings with all contractors at area level.
Produce operational monthly reports detailing Asset Management activities and performance.
Ensure collaboration with Asset Performance area to address turbine performance issues.
Generate written business cases to support initiatives and special reports describing technical issues to be used for “sharing knowledge” purposes and improvement of the internal technical specification.
Strong commercial and technical focus, optimizing the performance of wind farms.
Previous experience in the operation and maintenance sector, including in depth HV / LV electrical plant in depth knowledge.
Excellent HSEQ culture with knowledge of legislations and regulations on operating wind farms.
Strong scheduling and planning skills for timely task completion.
Good commercial and financial knowledge, especially in relation of P&L logic.
Lead a team of Site Managers across a regional wind farm portfolio, undertaking all necessary line management duties.
Provide development analysis and support through coaching and mentoring.
Ensure the team achieves technical and financial performance targets, implementing action plans for areas of underperformance.
Regularly engage in performance dialogue and feedback with the team.
Ensure Site Managers remain trained in first aid, working at height, and other mandatory training.
Strong educational background in Mechanical, Electrical or Renewable Energy engineering
Project Management skills and experience
Travel often within dedicated area and within the wider country region to attend relevant events on site, contractor and internal team meetings and in back-up solution for the site managers
Full time
Comercial • León, Kingdom Of Spain, España