WTG 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

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 Wind Turbine Engineer (O&M) is responsible for the technical integrity, reliability, maintenance strategy, and operational performance of the wind turbine generator fleet during the operational phase of the windfarm. The role provides engineering ownership of turbine systems and supports safe, efficient, and commercially optimised operation of the asset across planned maintenance, fault response, major component replacement campaigns, defect elimination, and continuous improvement.

The postholder will ensure turbine assets are operated and maintained in a manner that is safe, compliant, available and value-accretive, supporting energy production, contractual performance, asset-life preservation, and long-term shareholder returns.

This role sits within the operational asset organisation and acts as the focal engineering role for wind turbine systems during O&M. The WTG Engineer will be responsible for,

• Ownership of turbine availability and reliability
• Development and optimisation of maintenance strategies
• Support for fault analysis and troubleshooting
• Delivery of repair and retrofit campaigns
• Oversight of service contracts, OEM interfaces, and field execution
• Use of performance and event data to drive continuous improvement

The role is therefore both technically and commercial significant, bridging day-to-day operations with medium to long term windfarm performance strategy.

Location:

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

• Act as the engineering owner or delegated technical authority for offshore wind turbine systems during operations
• Maintain engineering oversight of key turbine sub-systems, including rotor and blades, nacelle systems, yaw and pitch systems, drivetrain, gearbox, generator, converter, hydraulics, cooling, lubrication, braking, auxiliary systems, and turbine control interfaces
• Develop, review, and optimise preventative, condition-based, and corrective maintenance strategies for WTG assets
• Review defect, event, inspection, vibration, and condition monitoring data and determine corrective actions, repair priorities, and engineering mitigations
• Lead or support root‑cause analysis for repeated faults, trips, underperformance, component degradation, and loss of generation events
• Support lifecycle planning, obsolescence management, major component strategy, spares parts philosophy, and end of warranty or long‑term service strategy

• Define and optimise turbine maintenance concepts, work packs, and campaign scopes for scheduled and unscheduled maintenance
• Support preparation and delivery of annual service campaigns, serial defect campaigns, retrofit packages, blade inspections and repairs, and major component exchange scopes
• Provide engineering support to offshore technicians and contractors undertaking maintenance and repair activities
• Review technical instructions, OEM recommendations, method statements, risk assessments, and lessons learned to ensure safe and efficient execution
• Support outage readiness, parts planning, tooling strategy, and resource coordination for offshore delivery

• Provide technical leadership during turbine faults, serial defects, repeated alarms, emergency stops, performance anomalies, and return to service decisions
• Analyse fault codes, event logs, condition monitoring outputs, and operational trends to identify failure modes and prevent recurrence
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