O&M Planner - Works Coordinator

O&M Planner - Works Coordinator Inch Cape Offshore Limited
• Montrose, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain

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 Farm Planner / Works Coordinator is responsible for the planning, scheduling, coordination and optimisation of all maintenance activities undertaken during the Operations & Maintenance phase of the offshore wind farm.

• safely planned
• fully resourced
• technically prepared
• efficiently scheduled
• correctly documented
• accurately recorded within the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).

The role is fundamental to maximising turbine availability, improving workforce productivity, reducing offshore downtime and ensuring full compliance with maintenance strategies, statutory inspection requirements and OEM maintenance programmes.

• Offshore Operations Manager
• Engineering Manager
• Marine Coordination
• Warehouse & Logistics
• Procurement
• HSE Manager
• OEMs
• Contractors
• Vessel Providers

• Preventive Maintenance
• Corrective Maintenance
• Predictive Maintenance
• Major Component Exchanges
• Inspection Campaigns
• Blade Campaigns
• Cable Repairs
• Offshore Substation Maintenance
• Balance of Plant maintenance
• Vessel Campaigns
• Warranty Works
• Reliability Improvement Campaigns

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

Develop detailed maintenance schedules covering:

• Annual maintenance
• Quarterly campaigns
• Weekly plans
• Daily offshore work plans

Develop work packages for:

• Scheduled maintenance
• Corrective maintenance
• Campaign work
• Defect rectification
• Statutory inspections

Ensure all maintenance activities are aligned with OEM recommendations and Asset Management Plans.

Act as CMMS Super User for maintenance planning. Typical systems include:

• IBM Maximo
• SAP PM
• IFS
• Hexagon EAM

Responsibilities include:

• Creation of Work Orders
• Preventive Maintenance schedules
• Corrective Maintenance planning
• Resource allocation
• Labour planning
• Equipment history
• Asset registers
• Maintenance backlog management
• Failure coding
• Asset criticality
• Maintenance KPI reporting

Ensure maintenance records remain complete, auditable and compliant.

Coordinate:

• Vessel schedules
• CTV utilisation
• SOV campaigns (where applicable)
• Technician rotations
• Contractor mobilisation

Balance priorities considering:

• Weather
• Marine restrictions
• Availability
• Commercial priorities
• Safety requirements

Optimise offshore resource utilisation.

Coordinate availability of:

• Technicians
• Engineers
• Contractors
• OEM specialists
• Marine assets
• Lifting equipment
• Cranes
• Specialist tooling

Ensure competency requirements are satisfied before mobilisation.

Work closely with Procurement and Warehouse teams.

Coordinate:

• Spare Parts
• Consumables
• Major Components
• Return of failed components
• Tooling
• Calibration
• Offshore containers

Ensure material availability before work commencement.

Maintain an accurate maintenance backlog.

Prioritise work based upon:

• Asset Criticality
• Safety
• Regulatory Compliance
• Production Loss
• Reliability
• Environmental Risk

Report backlog trends to Engineering Management.

Maintain planning KPIs including:

• Schedule Compliance
• PM Completion
• Work Order Closure
• Maintenance Backlog
• Vessel Utilisation
• Labour Productivity
• Mean Time to Repair
• Mean Time Between Failure
• Planning Accuracy
• Deferred Maintenance
• Repeat Failures

Provide weekly and monthly performance reports.

Review maintenance effectiveness.

Identify opportunities to improve:

• Maintenance intervals
• Resource utilisation
• Offshore efficiency
• CMMS…