Operability Monitoring Engineer

About the role

The Operability Monitoring Engineer acts as a Lead Monitoring Engineer on the Electrical, Controls and Operability (EC&O) Monitoring Team. The role carries out proactive operability monitoring and diagnostic assessments across the fleet, detecting performance-limiting behaviour and system interactions early and turning data into clear, actionable recommendations. It supports the team's mission to detect, diagnose and communicate abnormal electrical, controls and system-level behaviour before it becomes an outage, repeat event or sustained performance loss.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and run operability monitoring methods and diagnostic assessments for high-impact issues such as abnormal operating envelopes, curtailment interactions, nuisance constraints and fleet-wide performance patterns.
• Monitor turbine operability proactively using SCADA trends, events, alarms, wind and operating context, and fleet performance data.
• Improve operability indicators, thresholds and detection logic for assigned performance and availability risk modes.
• Perform deep diagnostics on abnormal patterns, intermittent behaviour and system interactions that limit productivity or reliability.
• Distinguish actionable operability risk from normal variation and non-critical anomalies, and turn findings into practical recommendations and troubleshooting directions.
• Work with senior team members and cross-functional partners in Services, Systems Engineering, Electrical and Controls Engineering, Fleet Reliability, Root Cause Analysis and Fleet Performance.
• Help standardise monitoring documentation, issue classification and technical communication, and share lessons learned to improve team methods.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace or Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience in wind turbine performance, operations engineering, reliability or fleet diagnostics.
• Strong understanding of wind turbine operating behaviour, performance drivers and system interactions.
• Experience diagnosing fleet performance and operability issues from time-series and event data.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, able to influence cross-functional action.

Required skills

• Hands-on use of SCADA trends, event logs and performance data.
• Data literacy and strong analytical skills.
• Desired: Python, SQL or equivalent tools; experience with fleet dashboards, triage workflows and issue prioritisation; familiarity with reliability and root cause processes.

What we offer

• Relocation assistance provided.