WTG Engineer O&M

Job Description

Inch Cape is a 1080MW offshore wind farm situated 15km from the Angus coast in the North Sea. The power it generates will be transmitted 85 kilometres to a new substation at Cockenzie, in East Lothian from where it will enter the national transmission system. Inch Cape is a more than £3 billion infrastructure project that will make a significant contribution to the UK's carbon emissions reduction targets. Once complete its 72 turbines will generate enough electricity to power almost half the homes in Scotland.

The Wind Turbine Engineer (O&M) is responsible for the technical integrity, reliability, maintenance strategy, and operational performance of the wind turbine generator fleet during the operational phase of the windfarm. The role provides engineering ownership of turbine systems and supports safe, efficient, and commercially optimised operation of the asset across planned maintenance, fault response, major component replacement campaigns, defect elimination, and continuous improvement.

The postholder will ensure turbine assets are operated and maintained in a manner that is safe, compliant, available and value-accretive, supporting energy production, contractual performance, asset-life preservation, and long-term shareholder returns.

This role sits within the operational asset organisation and acts as the focal engineering role for wind turbine systems during O&M. The WTG Engineer will be responsible for,

• Ownership of turbine availability and reliability
• Development and optimization of maintenance strategies
• Support for fault analysis and troubleshooting
• Delivery of repair and retrofit campaigns
• Oversight of service contracts, OEM interfaces, and field execution
• Use of performance and event data to drive continuous improvement

The role is therefore both technically and commercial significant, bridging day-to-day operations with medium to long term windfarm performance strategy.

Location: Montrose, (3 days a week in the office, 2 days WFH)

Responsibilities

Turbine Asset Integrity and Technical Assurance

• Act as the engineering owner or delegated technical authority for offshore wind turbine systems during operations
• Maintain engineering oversight of key turbine sub-systems, including rotor and blades, nacelle systems, yaw and pitch systems, drivetrain, gearbox, generator, converter, hydraulics, cooling, lubrication, braking, auxiliary systems, and turbine control interfaces
• Develop, review, and optimise preventative, condition-based, and corrective maintenance strategies for WTG assets
• Review defect, event, inspection, vibration, and condition monitoring data and determine corrective actions, repair priorities, and engineering mitigations
• Lead or support root-cause analysis for repeated faults, trips, underperformance, component degradation, and loss of generation events
• Support lifecycle planning, obsolescence management, major component strategy, spares parts philosophy, and end of warranty or long-term service strategy

Planned Maintenance, Corrective Works, and Campaign Delivery

• Define and optimise turbine maintenance concepts, work packs, and campaign scopes for scheduled and unscheduled maintenance
• Support preparation and delivery of annual service campaigns, serial defect campaigns, retrofit packages, blade inspections and repairs, and major component exchange scopes
• Provide engineering support to offshore technicians and contractors undertaking maintenance and repair activities
• Review technical instructions, OEM recommendations, method statements, risk assessments, and lessons learned to ensure safe and efficient execution
• Support outage readiness, parts planning, tooling strategy, and resource coordination for offshore delivery

Fault Response and Reliability Improvement

• Provide technical leadership during turbine faults, serial defects, repeated alarms, emergency stops, performance anomalies, and return to service decisions
• Analyse fault codes, event logs, condition monitoring outputs, and operational trends to identify failure modes and prevent recurrence
• Support troubleshooting of mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, and control related turbine issues in collaboration with OEMs, SCADA engineers, and offshore teams
• Escalate technical risks promptly and recommend short term mitigations and permanent corrective actions
• Drive defect elimination and reliability improvement programmes across the WTG assets

OEM, Contractor, and Service Contract Management

• Act as the primary engineering interface for turbine OEMs, major component suppliers, specialist repair contractors, and inspection providers
• Manage technical elements of service contracts, defect claims, campaign scopes, and contractor performance
• Review contractor RAMS, technical submissions, inspection findings, and close out reports
• Ensure engineering records, defect registers, technical deviations, and asset history records are complete and auditable
• Support commercial assessment of repair vs replace decisions, campaign value, service performance, and residual technical risk

Performance, Data, and Continuous Improvement

• Use operational and maintenance data to improve turbine availability, reliability, maintainability, and energy production
• Work with SCADA, electrical, and operational teams to identify trends in start/stops, resets, derates, fault sequences, and weather-related performance impacts
• Support performance loss analysis and engineering action plans to reduce forced outages and improve mean time to repair
• Contribute to digitalisation, predictive maintenance, and condition monitoring initiatives where they demonstrate improve decision quality or reduce cost

Decision Making Authority

• Make engineering recommendations on turbine risk, maintenance strategy, reliability priorities, and corrective actions
• Approve or endorse technical scopes, work packs, and repair strategies within delegated authority
• Stop work or escalate where turbine condition, documentation, or safety controls are inadequate
• Recommend outage strategy, campaign timing, and return to service decisions
• Govern turbine engineering changes under the site management of change proves

Skills

• Strong Safety leadership and judgement
• Technical depth in wind turbine systems and failure analysis
• Commercial awareness and risk-based decision making
• Direct offshore wind O&M experience
• Experience in major component replacements, blade campaigns, serial defect management, or retrofit delivery
• Familiarly with turbine SCADA / event analysis and condition monitoring data
• Experience managing long term service agreements or specialist campaign contracts
• Knowledge of turbine availability improvement and reliability programmes

Knowledge

• Experience supporting, maintaining, trouble shooting, or improving wind turbine systems in offshore wind, onshore wind, power generation, or other rotating equipment environments
• Experience in fault diagnosis, root cause analysis, maintenance planning, defect management, and contractor or OEM coordination
• Experience reviewing technical drawings, maintenance records, fault histories, OEM procedures, and engineering reports
• Ability to operate effectively in a safety critical environment with strong change control discipline

Qualifications

• Degree, HND, or equivalent higher qualification in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Renewable Energy Engineering, or a closely related discipline
• Strong technical grounding in offshore or utility scale wind turbine systems and maintenance

If you wish to make a big impact in renewables and being involved in this innovative project do not hesitate to apply.

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