Area Manager ( Albion Central)

We’re Nadara. We work harmoniously with the power of nature and the communities around us to power lifetimes to come. We call our approach ‘living energy’. We don’t just produce renewable energy, we live it – recognising our relationship with the people touched by our business and supporting social, educational, cultural, and environmental initiatives that contribute to the development of the communities we work alongside. Nadara is an innovative place to work. We work in a stimulating and challenging environment, where every day we explore the unknown with curiosity, make decisions with quality and take action and deliver with courage. For us diversity is a real value, and we encourage connecting different perspectives with respect.

Job Description Summary

As a pivotal member of the Asset Management Team reporting to the Head of Asset Management (Country), you will assume line management responsibility for an Area Asset Management team. Accountable for the supervision, management, and performance delivery of your assigned Area, you will represent the Company interests, engaging with various internal and external stakeholders, focusing on availability of the assets and their profitability.

Commercial:

• Accountable for delivering works within a defined budget while maximizing profit.
• Drive commercial performance of wind farms, reducing operational expenditures.
• Ensure identification and correction of underperformance, collaborating with key contractors and internal support functions.
• Operate the plant within the allocated area portfolio with a focus on increased availability, generation and profitability.
• Procure works in line with company procedures and with the support of the corporate procurement function.
• Manage the PRs/POs generation process within the corporate ERP system and corporate policy.
• Ensure timely payments and OPEX reconciliation supporting the corporate accounting function.
• Generate accurate annual budgets for Operating and Capital expenditures.
• In collaboration with P&C (Planning & Control) corporate function, review budgets regularly, providing reforecasting costs at regular intervals.
• Ensure the implementation of all the performance improvements to enhance profitability without compromising safety or quality.

Technical:

• Ensure wind farms operate to Best Practice, focusing on technical availability for maximum generation.
• Identify and mitigate risks that could impact performance targets.
• Conduct regular checks and inspections on contractors for safe and high-quality activities.
• Coordinate main component exchanges safely and efficiently, minimizing the impact of lost generation.
• Investigate major outages to develop lessons learned for prevention.

Contract Management:

• Manage the key service contracts and ensure the team manages all contractors to deliver high performance.
• Coordinate the implementation of scheduled work plans with a fine tuning approach designed to maximize the profitability through synergies and efficient allocation of resources.
• Ensure activities of all contractors align with contract scope and are completed safely.
• Maintain good working relationships with key stakeholders through regular communication.
• Conduct regular contractor audits to ensure governance against contract deliverables.
• Review and discuss performance with contractors, highlighting improvement areas.
• Project manage works on-site to ensure timely and budgeted completion with minimal impact on performance.
• Conduct regular meetings with all contractors at area level.

Reporting:

• Produce operational monthly reports detailing Asset Management activities and performance.
• Ensure collaboration with Asset Performance area to address turbine performance issues.
• Generate written business cases to support initiatives and special reports describing technical issues to be used for “sharing knowledge” purposes and improvement of the internal technical specification.

On-Call Responsibilities:

• Be available for site attendance outside of regular working hours for extraordinary operational needs (and emergency purposes; agent or energy off taker instructions, e.g., to change power settings due to negative prices).

Health & Safety, Quality and Environment (HSQE) Key responsibilities and Authorities:

• Take responsibility for safety in your Area, ensuring compliance with regulations.
• Oversee Health, Safety, Quality, and Environmental standards across the wind farm portfolio.
• Manage the team to ensure adequate site inductions and necessary competencies for all personnel.
• Implement Safety Rules and health and safety management systems across wind farms.
• Conduct regular audits of contractors on site for HSQE compliance.
• Coordinate the reporting of safety incidents promptly and conduct investigations with recommendations.
• Lead emergency planning with regular exercises to prove effectiveness.

Technical and cross Competences (Optional):

• Strong commercial and technical focus, optimizing the performance of wind farms.
• Previous experience in the operation and maintenance sector, including in depth HV/LV electrical plant knowledge.
• Proven problem-solving attitude.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent HSEQ culture with knowledge of legislations and regulations on operating wind farms.
• Strong scheduling and planning skills for timely task completion.
• Good commercial and financial knowledge, especially in relation to P&L logic.
• Good level of personal fitness for safe climbing of wind turbines.
• Technical: related to specific knowledge, special expertise and operative know-how required to perform role specific tasks.
• Cross: like foreign languages, software applications, digital tools.

Managerial skills and behaviours (Optional):

• Lead a team of Site Managers across a regional wind farm portfolio, undertaking all necessary line management duties.
• Ability to effectively line manage a remote team, appraising and developing skillsets.
• Provide development analysis and support through coaching and mentoring.
• Ensure the team achieves technical and financial performance targets, implementing action plans for areas of underperformance.
• Regularly engage in performance dialogue and feedback with the team.
• Ensure Site Managers remain trained in first aid, working at height, and other mandatory training.

Education and Qualifications:

• Strong educational background in Mechanical, Electrical or Renewable Energy engineering.
• Min 5 years’ experience working within the Renewables Industry.
• Project Management skills and experience.
• Leadership and team management skills.

Travel Requirements (Optional):

• Travel often within dedicated area and also within the wider country region to attend relevant events on site, contractor and internal team meetings and in back-up solution for the site managers.

Location: Edinburgh
Time Type: Full time
Worker Subtype: Regular