Principal Engineer

Are you seeking a role where your expertise in the Digitalization of Wind assets directly contributes to a fossil-free future? Do you want to be part of a team that is leading the charge towards sustainable energy by integrating cutting-edge digital solutions? Join our Digital Engineering division at Vattenfall, where your work will play a pivotal role in transforming the energy landscape and achieving our mission of fossil freedom.

Our Digital Engineering division delivers and integrates digital solutions to enable renewable energy production and reliable operations. As such digital engineering is the supplier of digital solutions within the Business Unit Offshore Wind and is responsible for supporting the whole value chain (from winning bids to building assets and operating assets) with a focus on Operational Technology (OT) and IT. We realise synergies in control and analytical modelling, and we enable the optimisation of engineering design by capturing and integrating all relevant data (end-to-end).

We strive for the highest standards of cybersecurity for our portfolio within BU Offshore Wind as well as other BA Wind business units.

Be in your element with BA Wind

Our wind, solar and batteries business offers a unique opportunity to be in your element working to help harness the forces which will take us to fossil freedom.

As part of BA Wind you 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 our key European markets.

You won't only be involved in developing projects but pioneering cutting-edge innovation, new business models and ways of working with communities and the environment. Working as part of a leading European utility also means you could be helping a growing number of major businesses and brands achieve their own sustainability goals through partnerships.

Your Role as Principal Engineer

As Principal Engineer, you will support the Head of Digital Engineering to oversee and coordinate the technical development. You will be in charge of maintaining and defining the technical framework for development. Furthermore, ensure that the engineering activities are aligned with the business strategy, Engineering backbone, Portfolio Perspectives and the line organisation. In this role you will support the full lifecycle perspective and portfolio of our windfarms, this includes, but will not be limited to;

• Competence development
• Product development
• Project execution
• O&M
• EOL and decommissioning

The principal engineer has the highest level of technical authority within a defined technical area and covers the cross alignment between the principal engineers of all technical areas to ensure that interfaces are clearly defined to support the business with the strategy execution.

The role of Principal Engineer will proactively engage in highly complex assignments of the business, in product development, project delivery or operations. Decomposes techno-economic challenges in the organisation into executable solutions, provides quality assurance. You will participate in regular technical reviews of ongoing asset projects, PRRs, product projects within roadmaps and as a part of product steering committee to ensure strategy implementation.

Further tasks associated with the role of Principal Engineer:

• Overarching Technical Authority (TA) for Digital Engineering
• Defining the Technical Framework within Digital Engineering ​
• Delegates TA to TA2 for the different Technical Areas​
• Ensures alignment across Project Delivery & Engineering Function​
• Participate in the architecture board and collaborate closely with Vattenfall IT and BA Wind Digitalisation around sustainable solutions for the greater good.
• Communicate technology strategy for current products, enabling technologies for new business opportunities and for long-term vision in the technical area.
• Within digital product, formulate together with the product managers the idea/concepts for product development.
• As the highest technical authority in the Engineering discipline, reviews and approves key technology documents to ensure consistency, quality, stakeholder alignment and compliance assurance.
• Actively participates in the technical Coordination Forum, ensures transparency on JIP and R&D work within the specific engineering discipline. Participate in IPR reviews and supports patent applications.
• Instils an innovative and entrepreneurial environment while balancing the associated risks and maintaining the overview of the whole technical area.
• Supports system integration, interfaces and alignment of the developments in the competence area to ensure functionality and efficiency. Act as interface between the various competence areas within Engineering.
• Oversees the process & tools maturation and application in technical field.
• Collects and disseminate learnings from internal and external projects, e.g by initiating and hosting regular knowledge exchange forum and by steering future technical improvements.

Location:

We are looking for a principal engineer to join our office in Hamburg, Kolding or Amsterdam.

To be up and running quickly and feel comfortable in your role we think it requires the following qualifications:

• University degree ( M.Sc. or PhD) within the engineering field, with a minimum of 7-10 years relevant work experience within the Principal Topic including experience as a manager or chief engineer.
• Experienced in project assignments throughout their lifetime as well as a detailed understanding of technology and its potential optimisation.
• Fluent in English, both verbal and written form.
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to create and maintain a motivating environment in a multicultural and multidisciplinary environment, driving progress and solutions towards the target
• Strong positive mindset, living our values with Safety, Open, Active and Positive.
• Strong communicator with strong interpersonal and network-building skills to manage stakeholders
• The principal engineer shall be skilled in dealing with strategic, highly complex issues, problems and challenges and can transfer technical challenges into economic impact and solution-oriented for the benefit of the overall Vattenfall goals.
• Challenge the Status Quo Successfully

It is important that as an indirect leader in the technical area, the Principal Engineer shall possess strong coaching skills and the ability to lead and guide the technical engineering disciplines with a strong delivery mindset, solution-oriented and solid technical foundation for decision-making. The Innovative mindset and ability to see, and spot new trends within the technical area.

Our Offer

Looking for a career with growth?

Looking for a role where your superpowers can be leveraged to the maximum and with limitless opportunities for growth?

The scale and ambition of our wind, battery and solar business means you can really find your element with us. We'll also provide you with all the learning and development you need to expand your horizons.

We strive to be the best place to work in the industry with highly competitive pay and conditions and an open, supportive culture. A commitment to a healthy work-life balance aims to ensure everyone plays to their strengths, whatever their background and experiences.

You will be part of a growing team of 1,700+ colleagues from 50+ nationalities where our positive approach to diversity is reflected in the fact that more than a quarter of staff are women.

More Information

For more information about the position you are welcome to contact hiring manager Pia Køcks, For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Christian Pathuel,

We welcome your application in English no later than We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be a good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation. Click here for further information.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall and will be performed by a third party, Validata.

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classified the final candidates might be subject to a security vetting process, according to Swedish legislation.

We look forward to receiving your application

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people's homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.