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About Venterra:
Venterra is a global wind energy services company, engineering, building and supporting major wind and renewables projects around the world. Our clear purpose: accelerate the global energy transition by becoming the go-to services provider and strategic partner for the rapidly expanding wind industry.
Our diverse team of experts is dedicated to making net zero a reality. We offer specialised services across the entire project lifecycle, including Geoscience consultancy, Environmental expertise, Design services, Project advisory, Survey capabilities and construction support & back-deck mission equipment.
By acquiring and bringing together leading offshore engineering and marine science companies like Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions, CAPE Holland, INSPIRE Environmental, Partrac and Ordtek, we provide the most comprehensive services and expertise in the market. And we're not done growing yet, which means there are plenty of exciting career opportunities on offer for our team.
At Venterra, sustainability, safety, and quality are prioritised in everything we do, reducing project risk, time, and cost for our clients.
Why join Venterra?
By joining us, you'll play a direct role in growing the renewables sector while building a career in an exciting, global industry.
Our Design & Advisory Team:
Venterra's Design and Advisory team is a multi-disciplinary group combining offshore policy, feasibility and marine consultancy with core civil and geotechnical engineering design expertise, operating in the offshore wind and marine development sectors. We combine our diverse skill sets to provide tailored solutions to suit client challenges and development plans. We can follow the client’s development process providing high value consultancy advisory in market studies, infrastructure and supply chain readiness, feasibility, due diligence and bankability assessment backed up by strong technical design expertise to help deliver and value engineer foundations and substations for floating and fixed offshore wind, transport & installation, port and marine infrastructure development assets.
Our multinational team operate on an agile basis to service clients globally. We pride ourselves in our investment in research and development with collaborative relationships with industry organisations providing thought leadership to the partners and clients we work with, whilst providing stimulating career and learning opportunities for our staff.
Role Description:
Background:
We’re seeking a high potential candidate who has rounded consultancy experience and is looking to take the next step in their career as Head of Ports to lead a small, dynamic team of engineers specialising in the design and development of ports and harbours. You will be responsible for overseeing the commercial direction, technical excellence and project delivery of our ports and harbour design team. As Head of Ports, you will be a part of the Offshore Group senior management team and its 50 engineers and consultants.
Head of Department - Ports
As Head of Ports, you will lead and manage a team of civil engineers to grow and expand our ports and marine infrastructure offering as a part of our wider multidisciplinary Offshore Design and Advisory Group. We are looking for a dynamic individual who can seek new business by developing and managing client relationships, provide technical oversight to projects, manage teams and take financial responsibility for profitability and growth as part of our Venterra global portfolio of offshore wind and marine infrastructure development plans. You and your team will collaborate closely with our Advisory Consultancy team offering clients strategic and specialist technical advice and deliver designs for marine project infrastructure in the UK and Ireland.
Scope of the Ports Team activities:
Early project stage technical advice from inception through the design and construction delivery phases of project development. This includes market studies, infrastructure readiness and due diligence, high quality concept and detailed designs, technical support to planning and EIA submissions for port and marine infrastructure.
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At Venterra:
At Venterra, we are committed to inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We take inclusion and diversity seriously. We know that getting this right is critical for us to live our organisation’s values. We are always trying to improve our way of working to be more inclusive and equal. We are an equal opportunity employer. Our vision is for Venterra to be a place where people of all ethnicities feel welcomed to work.