Performance Lead

Project Overview

Inch Cape is a 1080 MW offshore wind farm situated 15 km from the Angus coast in the North Sea. The power it generates will be transmitted 85 kilometres to a new sub‑station at Cockenzie, in East Lothian, before entering the national transmission system. The project, valued at more than £3 billion, will generate enough electricity to power almost half the homes in Scotland and is a significant contribution to the UK’s carbon emissions reduction targets.

The Performance Lead (O&M) is responsible for the monitoring, analysis, optimisation, and assurance of the operational performance across 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 for the Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm.

The Analyst is expected to:

• 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

This role is both an engineering performance role and a business‑critical assurance role, ensuring that the windfarm is not only generating safely and reliably, but that its performance is properly measured, challenged, and improved.

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
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