Company Description

Vattenfall is a leading European energy company driving the transition to a sustainable energy system. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years and now have a mission of working for fossil freedom. We employ around 20,000 people mostly in our core markets in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK.

Job Description

The Operational Readiness & Excellence department within Generation Offshore is responsible for delivering long-term success for our offshore wind farms, through managing large-scale change and product development projects.

The Operational Excellence team has been created to facilitate growth and the highest possible operating performance through maturing the way of working, particularly around fact-based decision making and implementing a continuous improvement culture.

About the role

We are looking for someone who is a real wizard in the field of building a continuous improvement culture in a multi-stakeholder and complex organisational and operational environment. You are intrinsically motived to get to the core of an issue and passionate about helping colleagues create ways of working that are simpler, better and more fulfilling.

The Improvement Manager is responsible for identifying, driving, organising and implementing improvements to ways of working in Offshore Wind Generation, on various levels in the organisation: from senior management to technicians on our wind farms. Your focus will be on enabling the organisation to improve value, by driving improvement projects and programmes, from strategic to operational. Your work will be derived from e.g. gap analysis, customer needs, strategy execution and performance data. “Performance” can include all business-relevant metrics, including Health, Safety, Security, Environment & Sustainability, Quality, Cost, and Revenue.

In addition, you will support with delivering a learning environment for stakeholders and colleagues to be able to initiate, prioritise, execute and implement improvements, including acting as a role-model and actively coaching and advising others on this way of working.

You are creative, curious, a good listener, are not afraid to challenge convention, and always seek to add the most value through your work by contributing to the overarching Vattenfall Strategy. You have excellent communication skills and feel at ease with taking initiative to challenge, inform and train others at all levels of seniority – whilst always looking for an opportunity to learn and develop yourself as well.

Be in your element with BA Wind

Business Area (BA) Wind is responsible for Vattenfall’s Onshore and Offshore Wind as well as other non-hydro Renewable activities like solar PV and batteries. Today we develop, construct and operate wind generation in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. In addition, we have a clear strategy to develop our solar PV and battery operations further. 

Qualifications

In summary, the following qualifications and skills are required:

• Bachelor/Master’s degree in a relevant field, although equivalent experience is also welcomed.
• Track record and experience of driving and realising improvements.
• High level of communication, cooperation and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to prioritize own workload and organize time and tasks efficiently and be proactive.
• Experience in Project Management; Programme Management is a bonus.
• Knowledge of Lean Six Sigma methodologies and at least one Agile methodology (e.g. Scrum). Certification e.g. as a Product Owner or Scrum Master is a bonus
• Knowledge of Lean Start-up and/or Design Thinking methodologies
• IT skills: competent with Microsoft Powerpoint, Excel and Word. Experience using Azure DevOps is a bonus
• Fluent in English, spoken as well as written

We take development very seriously, and this role allows for an extensive exposure to the broad range of offshore wind activities in Vattenfall and will afford you a close working relationship with key decision makers and directly influencing our core activities though improvements.

Living our core principles; Active, Open, Positive, and Safety 

 Key responsibilities  

• Driving a continuous improvement culture through identifying, organising and implementing improvement projects/programmes across the organisation;
• Ensuring business impact and value realisation in a growing and fast changing environment, focusing on people, processes and systems;
• Inspiring, advising, coaching and training management and stakeholders on approach, methodologies and responsibilities. 
• Reporting project status through our existing Agile Improvement Portfolio, working closely with the Portfolio Manager to ensure its success and identifying and implementing improvements to this way of working

Location  

We offer a challenging and international work environment and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues.  

The role is primarily office based, with some travel activity to be expected. 

You can choose to be based in our offices in Kolding, Amsterdam, London, Hamburg or Stockholm. 

Additional Information

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 recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Anne Vriesema via anne.vriesema@vattenfall.com

We welcome your application in English no later than April 21st 2024. 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!