Onshore civil lead

Onshore civil lead
 
Contract period: 28.02.2026 - 30.01.2027
Location: Oslo

Main tasks: 

• Project Initial scope: Follow-up the work within the civil, onshore structural and architect disciplines in the project phases
• For early phase projects: Support development of scope and follow up civil related issues in studies as well as maturation of deliveries within the civil disciplines as required per project phase 
• Future scope: During execution phase: Follow up contractor(s) to ensure deliverables in line with scope of work, budget and schedule TASKS AND DELIVERABLES 
• Coordinating the onshore engineers with delivery of scope 
• Follow-up Contractor(s) to ensure deliveries in line with scope of work, budget and schedule. Provide Contractor(s) with input, clarifications and maintain contact as necessary
• Contribute to internal project evaluations and documentation e.g. design basis, Technical and operational requirements and guidelines (TORG), functional specifications, technology assessments and qualification programmes
• Support site selection with civil related evaluations including ground investigation and testing
• Provide input to procurement activities for ongoing and future project phases within own discipline e.g. site preparation, design of structures, long lead items and company provided items (CPI)
• Contribute to planning and executing of civil engineering and construction scope
• Ensure necessary dialogue with interfacing disciplines and contribute to resolving interface issues
• Within own discipline, drive engineering efficiency, secure safety in design, design-to-cost and constructability
• During execution, support construction field engineers and provide input to decisions within own discipline, f. ex. inter disciplinary input, handling of site queries (SQs) and non-conformance requests (NCRs), technical queries (TQs) and variation order requests (VORs)Support handling of relevant change proposals and requests to depart from a requirement in TORG, non-conformance requests (NCRs)
• Follow up delivery of life cycle information (LCI) within discipline
• Ensure experience transfer from similar projects, operations and discipline network
• Plan and execute follow-up activities e.g. verification Cost development (onshore department) 
• Lead the cost development, mapping project costs 
• Review of Estimation model 
• Establishing fit for purpose Offshore Wind Specific Package Cost Indexes 
• Collect and process cost data (including contract growth) 
• Recommend quarterly updates to Cost Basis rates 
• Develop and update Cost Basis Assumption Books 
• Recommend quarterly updates to Cost Forecast 
• Agree and deliver onshore generic risk list (threat and opportunity) to onshore Early Phase Team (EPT) and to Estimation for Early Phase CRA 
• Update and maintain onshore generic risk list with input from EPT 
• Provide recommendation for cost outcome space as input to CRA 
• Collect as-built cost and cost development data from project and provide input to cost growth in Early Phase CRA 
• Update current onshore generic risk lists to include impact on Yield, OPEX and Schedule 

Qualifications:

• Civil engineering 
• Offshore wind projects 
• Onshore construction 
• Understanding of cost breakdowns and risk 
• Experience and understanding of landfall, cable corridor and onshore substation development or construction 
• Minimum 5 years experience, ideally 10+ years 
• Desirable to understand Polish regulations, but not a necessity

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