Analyst & Performance Engineer O&M

Is this your chance to join the team operating one of Scotland's largest offshore wind farms?

Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm is a 1080MW offshore wind farm situated 15km from the Angus coast in the North Sea. It will transmit electricity to a new substation and contribute to the UK’s carbon emissions reduction targets. When completed the 72 turbines will generate enough electricity to power almost half the homes in Scotland.

The Analyst & Performance Engineer (O&M) is responsible for monitoring, analysing, optimising and assuring the operational performance of the windfarm during the O&M phase. The role turns operational data into engineering and commercial insight, supporting safe operation, high availability, accurate reporting, improved turbine and balance‑of‑plant performance, and long‑term shareholder value.

• Analyse SCADA and high‑frequency turbine data
• Identify technical and operational issues affecting performance
• Support continuous improvement and corrective action tracking
• Improve tools, automation, and reporting processes
• Provide performance evidence for operations, asset management and wider business functions

Location:

Around 3 days a week in the Montrose office and 2 days a week WFH

• Lead routine monitoring of turbine and windfarm performance using SCADA, historian, condition monitoring, metering and related operational datasets
• Validate, cleanse and analyse operational data to identify underperformance, abnormal trends, availability losses, derates, recurring faults and early‑stage component degradation
• Perform turbine‑level and windfarm‑level performance assessments, including power‑curve analysis, event analysis, downtime categorisation, loss accounting and reliability trending
• Distinguish between technical losses, operational constraints, environmental impacts and data quality issues to ensure accurate root‑cause attribution
• Support engineering teams with evidence‑based recommendations to improve turbine, electrical and balance‑of‑plant performance

• Conduct proactive data‑led analysis to identify opportunities to improve availability, reliability, maintainability and energy yield
• Track repeat defects, transient issues and degradation patterns and work with site teams to convert findings into corrective and preventative actions
• Maintain and improve performance KPIs, dashboards and action registers to support structural improvement plans
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that reduce forced outages, improve mean time to repair and enhance energy production
• Support benchmarking of asset performance against expected technical and operational baselines and, where appropriate, against wider fleet or market comparators

• Own or support the integrity of performance data used for operational, management, contractual and shareholder reporting
• Develop and maintain robust processes for data validation, exception handling, calculation governance and audit trails
• Produce regular operational performance reports covering technical availability, production losses, alarms, downtime drivers, energy yield, campaign effectiveness and emerging risks
• Ensure performance reporting is sufficiently controlled to support internal governance, lender/insurer queries and external contractual interfaces where relevant
• Challenge data anomalies arising from meter, SCADA systems, historian platforms, reports or interfaces and coordinate corrective action with technical and commercial stakeholders

• Work closely with offshore operations, turbine engineering, HV engineering, SCADA/OT and asset management teams to interpret events and prioritise improvement actions
• Contribute to site meetings by highlighting performance concerns, recommending interventions and tracking action closure
• Provide analytical support for inspections, serving campaigns, defect elimination plans and major maintenance activities
• Support operational readiness for new assets, service transitions and in‑housing…