Engineering/ Design Manager Offshore Wind
Hamburg
Permanent
Full-time, hybrid
Are you motivated by implementing solutions for renewable energy and contributing to the green transition? Do you want to work closely with leading global developers and support the development of future offshore wind projects? Are you ready to help shape large and complex projects as part of a highly motivated team, while ensuring operational and technical quality? Then this is your opportunity to turn passion into action!
Lead the Future of Offshore Wind Engineering
Join our team in Hamburg as an Engineering Manager, where you will play a key role in advancing sustainable energy solutions through innovative offshore wind projects. We are approximately offshore wind experts in Europe working alongside our customers on some of the world’s most innovative offshore wind projects. And we are proud to have contributed to projects like Empire Wind (USA), St. Nazaire (France), Nordlicht (Germany), and Choshi/Akita (Japan).
As Engineering Manager – Offshore Wind, you will:
Lead Engineering and Project Delivery
1. Oversee FEED and detailed design of offshore wind foundations.
2. Manage risk, quality, cost, document control, and contracts.
3. Lead multi-disciplinary teams, including discipline leads and design teams.
4. Develop cohesive, multi-location project teams with support from our Engineering Design Centre.
5. Resolve technical queries and ensure project delivery aligns with COWI’s global best practices.
Provide Technical Leadership
6. Offer specialist advice to clients, stakeholders, and international colleagues.
7. Ensure high technical standards and innovative solutions across all projects.
8. Act as a key technical authority in offshore wind engineering.
Champion Business Development
9. Contribute to bids, tenders, and client engagement with the Market Director and bid team.
10. Develop valuable partnerships with clients to boost COWI's presence within the industry.
11. Support recruitment and growth of our offshore wind teams in Germany.
Strengthen Technical Community
12. Champion best practices and technical excellence across projects.
13. Ensure consistent application of engineering standards and promote technical innovation.
14. Collaborate with COWI’s international community to deliver integrated, high-quality services in Germany.
Your skills. Our team. Together, we design the future.
The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways, but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.
On top of that, you will have:
15. A degree in Civil, Structural, Mechanical Engineering or a related field (BSc, MSc or PhD)
16. Extensive experience in offshore wind project delivery – design, owner’s engineer, or similar
17. Demonstrated ability in managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams and complex projects
18. Deep knowledge of offshore wind foundation types and sector-specific engineering challenges
19. Proficient communication skills in both German and English, written and spoken