Senior Director, Operations Engineering

Join us in this role where you’ll lead, scale, and develop the Americas Onshore Operations Engineering team that supports wind, solar, and energy storage assets in operations. You’ll set the strategic direction, establish robust processes and standards, mitigate technical risk, and ensure exemplary regulatory and QHSE performance while driving continuous improvement across a diverse portfolio.

Welcome to Generation Onshore

You’ll be part of the Americas Onshore Operations Engineering team, where you and your colleagues provide technical and engineering support during operations, work closely with cross-functional partners, and engage across markets in the Americas. We partner with Regulatory Compliance, Development, Energy Assessment, Transmission, Development Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Asset Management to deliver portfolio-wide excellence. As a team, we value collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

You’ll play an important role in:

- translating corporate strategy into medium- and long-term direction and a portfolio-level execution strategy for Onshore Operations Engineering in the Americas

- establishing and maintaining processes, standards, and tools to proactively resolve technical issues and drive innovative engineering solutions with rigorous validation

- leading QHSE and regulatory compliance, ensuring grid-response and cybersecurity compliance and documentation across the operating fleet·

- overseeing OEMs, third-party engineering partners, and contractors, including technical issue tracking, causal analysis, and performance metrics

- providing data-driven feedback to development engineering and procurement to improve system design, commissioning, and technical documentation, integrating learnings from operations

- building, mentoring, and managing the team, balancing resources across project phases, and engaging stakeholders through site visits, partner meetings, and customer interactions to minimise yield and availability loss.

To succeed in the role, you:

- bring 10+ years of renewable energy or relevant industry experience and a technical degree in engineering or a related discipline - have 10+ years’ experience leading teams, with strong coaching, resource allocation, and performance management capabilities

- demonstrate effective decision-making under ambiguity and a track record of technical risk mitigation and operational excellence

- possess deep knowledge of regulatory compliance, QHSE, utility interconnection, and grid and cybersecurity requirements

- excel at cross-functional and cross-cultural collaboration with strong communication and influencing skills

- have proven experience implementing processes, standards, and continuous improvement across complex engineering operations.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Join a global leader in renewable energy

Ørsted is a growing green energy major and global leader in climate action. With us you’ll play a part in driving change towards a green energy future. You’ll grow your talent in a fast-paced and high-growth industry where you have plenty of opportunities to learn and develop through challenging assignments and industry-leading experts. Here, you can perform in a friendly work environment based on trust, respect, and collaboration.

Shape the future with us

Send your application to us no later than September 15, 2025.

We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we have found the right candidate.

Please don’t hesitate to contact Chernet Sisay, Talent Acquisition Partner, chers@orsted.com if you’d like to know more about the position. If you need to request any adjustments or accommodations to working practices, working patterns, or the assessment or interview process we're happy to discuss alternative arrangements.

Please note that you’re expected to do some travelling in relation to your work, as you’ll be visiting offices, external stakeholders, and project assets throughout the US.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country.