Scada C&I Engineer

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

Summary of Assignment

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 NCSCs Cyber Assessment Framework.

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

Responsibilities

• SCADA System Ownership and Technical Assurance
  • 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.
• Monitoring, Alarm Management, and Operational Support
  • 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.
• OT Networks, Telecoms, and Systems Integration
  • 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.
• OT Cyber Security and Resilience
  • Support implementation of cyber‑security controls and resilience measures for SCADA and OT systems in line with company policy and applicable UK energy sector.
  • Work with cyber, IT, and operational teams to maintain asset inventories, access control, vulnerability management, back‑up and recovery arrangements, network segregation, monitoring, and incident response readiness.
  • Contribute to assurance activities aligned to the NIS Regulations 2018 and the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework.
• Contractors, OEMs, and Change Management
  • Manage specialist SCADA, OT, telecoms, and automation contractors and OEM work scopes.
  • Review and challenge technical deliverables, change requests, FAT/SAT records, test procedures, commissioning plans, RAMS, and handover documentation.
  • Ensure modifications are assessed for operational risk, cyber‑security impact, electrical safety impact, and maintainability before implementation.
  • Maintain strong interface management across O&M, OEM, OFTO / grid stakeholders where applicable, and third‑party service providers.
• Health, Safety, Environmental, and Regulatory Accountability
  • The postholder shall ensure that all work under their control or influence complies with applicable UK laws, internal procedures, and recognised good practice.
  • For this role the principle legal and governance baseline should include; Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, Electricity at Work Regulation 1989, Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018, NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework, Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill.

Skills

• Strong safety and operational judgement.
• Technical depth in SCADA, OT, and industrial communication.
• Structured trouble shooting and root cause analysis.
• Clear communication from control room to board level.
• Strong management of change discipline.
• Cyber‑security awareness and resilience mindset.
• Commercial awareness and risk based decision making.

Knowledge

• Experience supporting, operating, maintaining, or improving SCADA / OT systems in offshore wind, power, utilities, transmission, industrial automation, or other highly regulated operational environments.
• Demonstrable experience of fault diagnosis, alarm/event analysis, configuration control, system upgrades, and contractor / OEM management.
• Experience with one or more PLCs, RTUs, HMIs, historian platforms, industrial Ethernet, field communications, and remote operational systems.
• Experience producing or reviewing technical documents, test procedures, method statements, and management reports.
• Ability to work in a structured, safety critical environment with strong change control discipline.

Qualifications

• Degree, HND, or equivalent higher qualification in Control Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Automation, Mechatronics, Electronic Engineering, Computer Systems, or OT/Industrial Engineering.
• Demonstratable technical knowledge of SCADA platforms, industrial communications, control systems, and operational networks.
• Cyber / OT security training, vendor SCADA certifications, or industrial network certification are advantageous.

Any questions please reach out to Oscar Martos HR team at Inch Cape offshore wind.