Performance Lead

Is this your chance to join the team operating one of Scotland's largest offshore wind farms? Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm

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 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 function

This role is therefore 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.

The role sits within the O&M organisation and acts as the focal point for technical and operational performance analytics. It supports the interface between field operations, turbine engineering, SCADA/OT, asset management, commercial teams, and senior leadership.

There are three main focal points of the role:

Location:

Around 3 days a week in the Montrose office and 2 days aweek 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 reduced 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

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