Teesside University and innogy’s Sofia Offshore Wind Farm have signed an agreement setting out how they will work together to build local skills and capabilities to equip students for careers in the offshore wind sector. The 1.4 GW Sofia project will be constructed on a 593km2 site 195 kilometres fr
EEW Offshore Structures Britain (EEW OSB) has appointed the UK-based professional personnel leasing specialist RTS Wind Recruitment as the main supplier. RTS has partnered with EEW-OSB for a number of years throughout the Hornsea Project One and has recruited for various different positions all work
Innogy has kicked off a recruitment drive for up to 22 roles at its new Triton Knoll operations & maintenance (O&M) base in Grimsby, UK. Adverts for the new roles go live from Wednesday, 31 July, as the developer seeks to identify local talent for a range of jobs. The open positions being advertised
Bibby Marine Services has appointed Equinor’s Michael Martins as Business Development Manager. Bibby said that the business goal is to add new vessels to its fleet, widening service offering and creating a larger geographical basis. The company has thus developed a range of vessel designs and is coo
The UK has again extended the Offshore Wind Immigration Rules concession to workers essential to the construction and maintenance of wind farms within UK territorial waters which will now run until April 2020. The concession, introduced in June 2017, and extended by a year in October 2017, and in Ma
Offshore wind developers Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm, ScottishPower Renewables and Vattenfall have partnered with the University of East Anglia, Nautilus Associates and The Bridge Trust to improve learning and career opportunities in East Anglia, the UK. The parties have joined forces to form the STE
Texo Group has opened a new office in the Port of Blyth with the aim of supporting the needs of the offshore wind sector and focusing on back-of-deck and mechanical equipment projects. Texo has also made three new appointments to its engineering leadership team to head up the new office in the North
Norfolk and Suffolk have been named as the UK’s leading centre for offshore wind with the launch of a new cluster in conjunction with the release of the UK’s Offshore Wind Sector Deal. The Norfolk and Suffolk Offshore Wind Cluster is expected to help create thousands of new jobs and unlock investmen
The UK has launched the new joint government-industry Offshore Wind Sector Deal which will see offshore wind reach the connected capacity of 30GW and deliver one-third of the UK’s electricity by 2030. Under the new deal, the number of jobs in the industry is expected to rise to 27,000 by 2030, up fr
Offshore wind provided 13,500 full-time equivalent jobs in the UK in 2017, a 20.5% increase compared to 11,200 in 2016, according to the Office for National Statistics. Based on the estimates, there were 9,900 jobs in England in 2017, which represents 2,300 more than the 7,600 estimated in 2016. Sco
Gardline Limited, a subsidiary of Royal Boskalis Westminster, has appointed Christiaan Vermeijden as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. According to the UK-based company, Vermeijden will replace Gardline’s current interim CEO, Gerben Eggink. “I am honoured to become CEO of Gardline, a c
