Integrity Reliability Engineer

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. We employ around 21 000 people mostly in our core markets in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK.

Job Description

Step into a crucial role where innovative analytics and hands-on engineering converge to drive wind turbine integrity and reliability. As an Integrity Reliability Engineer at Vattenfall, you’ll transform raw data into actionable insights, ensuring peak performance across our growing renewable portfolio. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you’ll develop and refine cutting-edge dashboards, anticipate failure modes, and champion risk-based decisions—all while shaping the future of clean energy. If you thrive on solving technical challenges, optimizing complex systems, and fostering a data-driven culture, join us and power the journey toward a fossil-free tomorrow.

You will join Asset Integrity within Generation as our new Integrity Reliability Engineer, where we focus on ensuring the reliability and integrity of our wind farms across their entire lifecycle. This team serves as the central hub for analyzing, visualizing, and continuously improving integrity-related data, with a main emphasis on reliability. By working closely with Asset Integrity Engineers, the Integrity Data Engineer, and other technical specialists, you will help develop and maintain dashboards, processes, and tools that keep our wind farm operations safe, efficient, and future-ready.

Generation is the organization that is fully accountable for the Asset performance of Vattenfall’s offshore wind farms. This includes operating the wind farms through optimization of revenues in relation to the power market and maintaining the wind farms in a healthy, safe, sustainable and cost efficient way to ensure best availability and full compliance with requirement.

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 also 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.

Qualifications

Your role

As an Integrity Reliability Engineer, you will be key contributor to developing and visualizing data-driven insights on wind turbine reliability, always with risk mindset. Your primary focus is to support the development and refinement of dashboards—covering technical availability, workorder management, WTG performance, and more—that present a clear picture of asset health and visualizes risks to the entire organization. Collaborating closely with our Asset Integrity Engineers and the Integrity Data Engineer, you will use risk and reliability-driven data analyses to optimize turbine performance, inform data-based maintenance plans, and maintain asset integrity for a growing portfolio of wind farms. This position requires both technical expertise and a creative mindset to identify innovative solutions that enhance the reliability and visualizes the risks of our assets.

Key Responsibilities:

Reliability & Analysis:

• Conduct reliability evaluations for wind turbines and wind farm systems, estimating failure rates and consequences, focused around visualizing risks.
• Develop and implement ideas and concepts to improve our reliability models and analytical approaches.

Asset Integrity Management:

• Contribute to the ongoing development of the Asset Integrity Management System, ensuring the integrity of assets is maintained, documented, and visible throughout their lifecycle.
• Lead efforts in reliability and condition data management, supporting risk-based decisions on asset maintenance.
• Advise colleagues on reliability analysis, troubleshooting, and operational best practices.

Standardization & Processes:

• Document and standardize reliability-focused technical decisions, processes, and tools.
• Support continuous development of the Asset Integrity framework by preparing and updating technology/process documents, ensuring a systematic approach is applied.

Contract & Stakeholder Support:

• Provide reliability-focused input to Employer Requirements and contractual agreements, collaborating with Procurement and Commercial Management on contract standards.

IT Tools & Innovation:

• Identify requirements for IT tools or reporting dashboards to support reliability and integrity efforts.
• Test, validate, and provide feedback on new or updated tools, ensuring user-friendliness and relevance.
• Offer training and support to stakeholders to maximize the dashboards’ impact.

Your profile / who are you?

To excel in this position, you need industry experience in wind turbines or a related energy sector, with a particular focus on risk and/or reliability analysis and troubleshooting. You bring a proactive, forward-thinking approach to your work, coupled with proven expertise in failure rate modelling and reliability tools (e.g., Reliasoft Weibull++, BlockSim). Knowledge of mechanical and electrical systems, combined with a analytical foundation (potentially including risk management, mathematics or engineering with a reliability focus), enables you to produce clear, actionable insights. You communicate confidently in English, both verbally and in writing, and thrive on collaborating in cross-functional, international teams. Your systematic work ethic, positive mindset, and ability to balance technical challenges with commercial considerations ensure that you deliver high-quality solutions while fostering strong relationships across the organization:

• B.Sc or M.Sc. in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or Mathematics with a focus on reliability analysis.
• Industry experience in offshore wind or related energy sectors.
• Proven background in risk management and/or post-processing field failure data and predicting failure rates using tools like Reliasoft (Weibull++, BlockSim).
• Understanding of failure rate modelling and failure rate sensitivity analysis.
• Familiarity with wind turbine troubleshooting and maintenance in real-world environments.
• Knowledge of management systems, processes, and procedures relevant to asset integrity.
• Result-oriented mindset with strong organizational and prioritization abilities.
• Innovative thinker with the courage to propose new solutions and concepts.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative attitude, fostering teamwork across different functions.
• Effective communication skills in English (spoken and written); Danish or German language skills are a plus.
• Flexible approach to travel activity.

Why not start your journey to working for fossil freedom by applying now?

Location Kolding, Denmark – London, United Kingdom – Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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 position, you are welcome to contact hiring manager Daniel Muus, daniel.muus@vattenfall.com. For more information about the recruitment process, you are welcome to contact our recruiter Christian Pathuel, christian.pathuel@vattenfall.com

We welcome your application in English no later than 15.04.2025. 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 fulfil 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!