Scour Engineer (Coastal Engineer)

Join us in this role where you’ll provide high-quality coastal engineering support for our offshore wind projects with a focus on seabed morphology and scour protection design. You’ll typically work on multiple projects from the early site assessment and the design phase through construction to operation and maintenance. As Scour Engineer, you combine theoretical understanding of hydrodynamics, seabed morphology and rock structures with practical implementation in the field in collaboration with contractors and quarries.

Welcome to Foundations and Wind Turbines
You’ll be part of Seabed Interface Design where you, together with your colleagues, will provide all seabed change and scour-related assessments and designs. You’ll have direct access to all field data as the department works closely with the geophysical and geotechnical departments analysing seabed surveys for planned and operating wind farms

As a team, we thrive on open communication, knowledge sharing, continuous learning and collaboration. We invest in professional development, and celebrate achievements together.

You’ll play an important role in:

• analysing seabed mobility and forecasting future seabed levels for cables and foundations

• designing scour protections for foundations, cable protection systems and cable crossings
• ensuring quality of construction through quarry visits and liaising with the installation team

• supporting R&D activities for design optimisations

• giving technical advice and coordinating with project managers and engineers from different technical areas across our company.

To succeed in the role, you:

• have, as a minimum, a master’s degree within the field of coastal engineering/natural geography or equivalent

• have an analytical mindset and programming skills (preferably MATLAB or Python), GIS knowledge (ESRI software or Global Mapper), and/or knowledge of MIKE/Delft3D or similar for data processing

• thrive in an English-speaking international environment

• enjoy project work with many internal and external stakeholders take on a high degree of personal responsibility

• are a sociable person and a team player.

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.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

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. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.

About the job
Application deadline:
22 April 2025

Location:
Gentofte, DK

Field of work:
Engineering and construction

Employment type:
Permanent

Work hours:
Full-time

Workplace:
Hybrid (office and home-working)

Imagine a future with Ørsted

About Ørsted
- We develop, construct, and operate offshore and onshore wind farms, solar energy farms, storage facilities, and bioenergy plants in Europe, Asia, and North America.

- Our vision is to create a world that runs entirely on green energy.

- We’ve been ranked as one of the world’s most sustainable energy companies for the past six years.

- We’re headquartered in Denmark.

- We have over 8,600 employees, working in 15 countries and growing.

An inclusive team
Ørsted wants all employees to have the same opportunities for impact and growth, regardless of age, nationality, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or beliefs. We’re committed to secure an inclusive work environment characterised by a respect for all people so everyone feels free to openly share their input and ideas.