Operational Readiness Engineer

Base Location: Flexible UK & Ireland, however our preference is that you will be based in one of our key UK or Ireland sites, which includes but is not limited to:- Dublin, Belfast, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Perth, Inverness, Reading or Havant., In your role as an Operational Readiness Engineer, you will be pivotal in integrating new Onshore Wind, Solar, and Battery (OWSB) projects into the fleet ensuring all operational requirements and standards are met through the development phase of Large Capital Projects. This position involves significant collaboration with various SSE departments to align large capital projects with long-term operational and maintenance strategies.

Main accountabilities may include: -

- Providing a single point of contact within the Asset Management directorate through the development and refinement stages of projects.

- Supporting development of Employer's Requirements & Works Information and reviewing variations submitted by suppliers that may impact on operations or maintenance of site.

- Participating and feeding into OEM Technical Due-Diligence reviews across all technologies.

- Ensuring all project risks are managed and mitigated and accepted by the Asset Management Business.

- Acting as Operational Representative for service agreement negotiations.

Experience of Wind operations and maintenance standards, processes and technologies, knowledge of solar & battery is also desirable.

- Detailed understanding and experience of large capital project development processes within a large organisation.

- Experience of technical analysis of operational contractual agreements.

- Excellent Project Management knowledge and stakeholder management skills.

- Ability to work at height.

SSE has big ambitions to be a leading energy company in a low carbon world. Following our commitment to invest £20.5 billion in low carbon projects to 2027, we have significant growth plans and are well on our way to achieving our ambition to build a world that's more sustainable and inclusive for you, your family, the community you live in and for generations to come. We are proud to be playing a critical role in the net zero transition, as we aim to more than treble the net capacity in operation to 13GW and grow renewable energy output five-fold to over 50TWh over the next 10 years.

Salary: £40,600-£61,000/€56,500-€84,700 + performance-related bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available, An excellent package with 34 days holiday entitlement, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.