Operational Controller

Wood is currently recruiting for an Operational Controller with previous experience within the renewables industry and/or within a control room environment. The Operational Controller will have the responsibility for operational decision making and will ensure that all operational activities across the Wood portfolio of wind and solar farm sites within the UK are co-ordinated, controlled and monitored in accordance with Wood procedures and regulatory requirements. The Operational Controller is essential in ensuring the safety and efficiency of operations across the different sites within the UK and is an excellent opportunity for an individual who has a diligent approach to Health, Safety and compliance in all processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Familiarise with processes and systems in relation to shift responsibilities, including major dynamic site issues such as TOC, grid outages, HV works, site curtailment requests from National Grid and weather safety alerts.
• Assist the Supervisor/Senior Operational Controller with training of new Operational Controllers and their integration into the control room when on shift.
• Decision maker during communications with National Grid to ensure compliance with the UK Grid Code and associated obligations as well as escalation responsibility to management team if required.
• Identify issues with existing procedures/methods associated with the operational activity to ensure best practice is maintained across the portfolio.
• On shift decision maker relating to the management of Wind Turbine Generation (WTG) remote reset protocols to maximise energy capture.
• Perform fault logging to ensure contractual availability and fault trends can be accurately assessed.
• Perform the real time updating of the energy trading IT systems.
• Perform day-to-day data population, maintenance and integrity checks.
• Compliance with all Health and Safety (H&S) and Quality legislation, company and any specific site requirements by the teams and reporting of any incidents to the PM updating and maintaining relevant systems.
• Ensure system information is accurate to avoid excessive re-writing during the team audit process.
• Complete data entries by the end of shift and that all relevant information is communicated at handover.
• Build and maintain knowledge of renewable data management and performance assessment technologies.

Qualifications

Experience:

• Previous experience within the wind turbine industry or similar environment.
• Previous experience within a control room environment is preferred.
• Awareness of all key renewable energy technologies.
• Knowledge of the Wind Turbine Safety Rules.
• Knowledge in the development, construction and operation of onshore and offshore renewable energy projects is desirable.

Skills:

• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience of giving presentations is desirable.
• Excellent IT skills particularly across the Microsoft Packages.
• Report writing skills addressing performance, issues, events and wider implications.

Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world’s most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people.

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.