Head of O&M Excellence d/f/m

Hamburg, HH, DE, 20354 Essen, NW, DE, 45141 Swindon, Wiltshire, GB, SN5 6PB London, City of London, GB, EC2R 8HP

To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent. As Head of O&M Excellence, you will drive performance improvements across our operations portfolio, including the setup and ownership of our "Offshore Production System", perform diagnostics and identify improvement potentials. You will standardise processes and ensure a value oriented digitisation roadmap exists across operations. You will support the implementation of improvement initiatives, oversee Data & Performance Analysis, Works Management Processes, and central Maintenance Optimisation functions. This includes establishing and enhancing our Performance Management System, accurate reporting, standardising works management processes, and digitising them per our Digitisation Roadmap. You will lead fleet wide maintenance optimisation initiatives.

• Lead and develop the O&M Excellence Department to ensure industry leading operational performance, process and maintenance improvement, and systematic performance reporting of the offshore wind fleet.
• Lead and own the definition and ownership of the RWE Offshore Production System.
• Drive operational diagnostics and improvement identification across sites in collaboration with site/cluster leadership teams and inform target setting.
• Drive process standardisation for Operations fleet and the Digitisation roadmap (partly integrated with Production System ownership) for our Works Management Process landscape.
• Jointly own improvement targets with the site management team and support implementation on sites as needed.
• Maintain a standardised KPI framework for Operations, including loss tracking.
• Be responsible for timely and high quality performance reports for decision making of the leadership team.
• Drive data based performance diagnostics with site teams to enable improvement initiatives.
• Monitor improvement impacts and provide regular insights to other teams through reports.
• Lead our maintenance optimisation efforts across the fleet including standardisation of related works instructions.

• Extensive operations experience and a proven history of delivering operational performance within offshore wind.
• Experience in systematic improvement work in offshore wind (lever identification, quantification and implementation).
• Prior experience with Production System development, lean principles and their practical implementation as well as experience from other industries is a strong plus.
• University degree in business, renewable energy, engineering, project management or equivalent.
• Several years of relevant working experience.
• Thorough understanding of the renewables business and its drivers and trends across markets and technologies.
• Flexibility and willingness to travel in the region and internationally on a regular basis.
• Success oriented personality, committed to driving operational performance against complex boundary conditions.
• Advanced structured problem solving capabilities combined with strategic thinking.
• English is mandatory; additional European languages are an advantage.
• Geographical focus for this role is international.

We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, disability, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, age, sexual orientation, and identity.

RWE Offshore Wind, a subsidiary of RWE AG, is one of the world's leading players in the field of offshore wind. We have more than 20 years of experience in the development, construction, and efficient operation of offshore wind farms. We currently operate 19 offshore wind farms, making us the second largest operator worldwide in terms of total capacity. We are currently building four additional wind farms with a combined capacity of nearly 4.9 GW and are developing numerous other projects.

RWE Offshore Wind tests a wide variety of new technologies in our offshore wind farms, enabling these plants to operate more efficiently and economically. In addition, we are involved in and committed to numerous programmes and initiatives that accelerate innovation in offshore wind and promote the development of new industry standards, allowing you to act with conviction and courage as we pivot to new technologies - continuously improving together.

RWE is leading the way to a modern energy world. With our investment and growth strategy, we are contributing significantly to the success of the energy transition and the decarbonisation of the energy system.

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