Foundation Design Project Manager - Tokyo, Japan

About the Company

Our client offers a full range of offshore wind energy solutions from development to decommissioning. As a global company with more than 30 years of experience in the wind industry since 1989, they have offshore wind track records with more than 60 Japanese projects since 2013.

Their experts in Japan closely collaborate with the organisation's specialists all over the world and can draw on a vast range of expertise. Services include full-range wind consultancy, including project development, strategic consultancy, feasibility study, bottom-fixed & floating foundation design, certification support, and O&M/asset management.

The Opportunity

With a healthy pipeline of Offshore Wind projects already secured and the demand increasing in Japan, we are looking to appoint a Foundation Design Project Manager to join the engineering team. This locally based role in Tokyo, will ensure clients are offered specialist services and expertise to serve their project needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the key interface for all communications between clients and internal teams.
• Build and maintaining strong customer relationships and through regular communication, obtain a sound understanding of key design requirements for projects.
• Work with the internal teams in order to provide design solutions to meet the clients/projects required outcomes.
• Attend client meetings weekly and translate this information to the European team.
• Understand Japan's unique design requirements, including seismic design, and with the cooperation of engineers at each site.
• Formulate design strategies and processes and prepare documents/presentations to clients and certification bodies such as site condition evaluation, design standard evaluation, overall load evaluation, and support structure design evaluation.

What we are looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Civil/Structural or Marine Engineering
• Minimum of 5 years’ working experience in an engineering capacity preferably with 1 year of Offshore wind project experience.
• 5 years plus experience of working on large projects (civil, structural, marine) i.e. bridges, towers, rail, marine structures will be considered.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to build and manage effective working relationships with the clients is essential
• Native-level Japanese proficiency (regardless of nationality) to understand Japanese technical materials and emphasize communication with Japan clients and certification bodies
• A proactive problem-solver who excels in tackling complex challenges and takes responsibility for their tasks
• Strong planning and organisation skills

Why Join?

• Growth – Rapid business expansion and growth in the Offshore Wind sector particularly floating Offshore projects in Japan, so this is the opportunity to be a part of this journey ahead.
• Projects – As part of the direct engineering team, you will have hands-on involvement and full transparency across these projects.
• Global presence - An impressive global footprint with over 2500 employees
• Team Support - Highly supportive team environment. You will be supported by experts in Japan and also closely collaborate with the company's specialists all over the world and thus draw on a vast range of expertise.
• Range of services offered are diverse and cutting edge – giving you full confidence to service your clients with optimum results for their projects.
• Career Prospects – As the footprint and business grows in Japan so will the team and the career opportunities available.

Interested, contact Paula Dennison for more details or send your application to

paula.dennison@hunterphilips.com