Electrical Asset Integrity Engineer

• Job Number: 559920
• Closing at:
  Nov 4 2026 - 23:55 GMT

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Location:

You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations:
Lowestoft, Perth, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Montrose or Inverness

Salary: £51,600 - £77,400 depending on skills and experience + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time

As an Electrical Asset Integrity Engineer, you’ll provide technical expertise and oversight to safeguard the medium and long-term integrity of operational assets, while contributing operations and maintenance insight to new development projects. You’ll help ensure the wind farm’s electrical infrastructure remains safe, reliable and high performing, identifying effective solutions to system failures and working across teams and stakeholders to deliver a swift, robust response.

In doing so, you’ll minimise asset downtime and maintain compliance with our safety standards.

• Lead electrical asset integrity projects across the asset lifecycle, improving reliability, performance and operational efficiency while supporting both planned and unplanned outages.
• Develop and deliver long-term asset management, maintenance and integrity strategies, including predictive, preventative and reactive maintenance plans, critical spares management and obsolescence mitigation.
• Provide expert technical support and rapid fault response, leading root cause investigations and implementing sustainable solutions to improve asset performance and reduce downtime.
• Manage engineering projects and work scopes from planning through to delivery, including budgeting, commercial management, stakeholder engagement, reporting and compliance with industry standards and safety requirements.
• Collaborate with operations teams, OEMs, contractors and technical specialists to drive continuous improvement, share best practice, support new developments and mentor junior engineers.

• A degree-level qualification in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering or a related discipline.
• Proven electrical engineering experience within an operational environment.
• Experience delivering complex technical projects and working effectively with multiple stakeholders.
• Practical knowledge of asset management frameworks, integrity management systems and a range of maintenance strategies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret and draw insight from a range of data sources.
• Knowledge of relevant electrical engineering standards and regulatory requirements.

Having a background in Renewables isn’t necessary, as we welcome applications from those with transferable experience. It’s more important to us that you share our values, bring unique experience and are eager to learn.

SSE’s purpose is to be restless every day until we make electricity clean, affordable and available for all.

We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. This includes electricity transmission and distribution networks, onshore and offshore wind farms, hydro-electric power and flexible thermal generation. We also provide products and services for businesses and other customers.

Our investment plan will see SSE invest £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure to 2030.

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