SCADA C&I Engineer

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.

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

The C&I/SCADA Engineer (O&M) is responsible for the technical integrity, availability, cyber resilience, maintenance strategy, and continuous improvement of the windfarm’s SCADA, telemetry, communications, and associated operational technology systems during the operational phase. The role supports efficient control, monitoring, alarm handling, event diagnosis, performance optimisation, and data quality across turbines, offshore substation, electrical balance of plant, and onshore operational interfaces. The postholder ensures that SCADA and OT systems are operated and maintained in a manner that is safe, compliant, secure, reliable, and commercially optimised, supporting turbine availability, export reliability, regulatory compliance, and long-term shareholder value.

Duties around electrical safety remain grounded in the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, while cyber‑resilience expectations for essential energy services are governed through the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 and the NCSC's Cyber Assessment Framework.

• Act as the engineering owner, or delegated technical authority, for the windfarm’s SCADA and associated OT systems
• Maintain oversight of system architecture including servers, HMIs, RTUs, PLCs, gateways, historian platforms, field communications, alarms, event logs, and interfaces to turbines, substation, and enterprise systems
• Ensure operational systems remain robust, available, supportable, and correctly configured
• Review and approve system changes, patches, upgrades, back‑ups, disaster recovery arrangements, and interface modifications under management of change controls
• Maintain technical standards, engineering processes, and document quality for SCADA and OT assets

• Support safe and effective remote monitoring and control of windfarm assets through SCADA platforms and associated operational interfaces
• Lead technical triage of alarms, data‑quality issues, communications loss, control anomalies, and systems events affecting turbines, substations, and balance of plant systems
• Work closely with operations, electrical, marine, and OEM teams to diagnose faults, plan interventions, and restore service in a controlled manner
• Improve alarm rationalisation, event handling, and operational response to reduce avoidable downtime and nuisance alarms
• Support outage planning, return to service activities, and operational readiness for offshore campaigns

• Maintain and improve OT network topology, communications resilience, and field to control centre connectivity across offshore and onshore systems
• Support integration between SCADA, turbine controllers, substation automation, protection interfaces, metering, CCTV/security, historian systems, and external control interfaces
• Oversee diagnostics and maintenance for industrial communications systems such as fibre, switches, radios, gateways, timing sources, and related network infrastructure
• Support system upgrades, project handover, and integration of new functions, patches, and retrofit packages while protecting operational continuity

• Support implementation of cyber‑security controls and resilience measures for SCADA and OT systems in line with company policy and applicable UK energy sector regulations
• Work with cyber, IT, and operational teams to maintain asset inventories, access control, vulnerability management, back‑up and…