Site Operations and Maintenance Coordinator

Site Operations and Maintenance Coordinator

Location: Remote with site based travel

Eden Scott are supporting their Renewable Energy Developer Client with the appointment of a Site Operations and Maintenance Coordinator to join their Asset Management Team. This represents an excellent opportunity for a Wind Turbine Technician with an electrical bias to work in a slightly different role assuming responsibility for the smooth and efficient operation of 6 sites in Scotland.

ABOUT GreenPower

GreenPower is a renewable energy company, developing, constructing, owning and operating wind, hydro, solar, and hydrogen power projects across the UK. As part of our growth plans we are seeking to employ a Site Operations and Maintenance Coordinator to support our Operations and Asset Management team who are responsible for delivering bespoke operational management services across the portfolio of projects. Most assets are owned by GreenPower, with some projects jointly owned with investment funds and some managed on behalf of a third party client.

GreenPower employs a highly skilled team of technical, financial and commercial experts committed to high quality ethics and working standards. In addition to robust technical an engineering diligence, our team has a strong sense of ownership, which we believe makes a significant difference to the long-term performance of the projects under our management.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The purpose of this post is for the to be responsible for general site management, being the first point of contact for day-to-day operational matters. The post holder will take the lead in ensuring the sites are operated safely with a view to maximising generation, minimising downtime and controlling costs.

The Site Operations and Maintenance Coordinator will help manage and coordinate contractors and suppliers carrying out their specialist works on our sites. This will include work scheduling and monitoring, maintaining work logs and tracking progress to fault response and repairs.

Occasionally, the post holder will be expected to follow up on progress of works or receive calls outside of regular working hours to ensure timely fault response resolutions.

The Site Operations and Maintenance Coordinator will be responsible for ensuring high quality of health and safety practice, providing site inductions, toolbox talks and ensuring that safe systems of work are established for all site activities.

The Site Operations and Maintenance Coordinator will closely collaborate with other members of the Operations and Asset Management team in providing guidance and information on site matters that delivers compliance, qualitative reporting and performance analysis on the projects.

The Site Operations and Maintenance Coordinator will also support the important relationships we have with our landowners and local communities, and being the staff member most regularly on site, will often be the face of the company.

The Site Operations and Maintenance Coordinator will be expected to travel to our sites on a regular basis and in some cases, this may require evening & weekend working and overnight stays. The sites are often located in remote and hilly areas and the post holder will need to be comfortable working in isolation and sometimes in poor weather conditions.

Cost control is important for the operational sites and the Site Operations and Maintenance

Coordinator will be expected to monitor actual spend against planned expenditure.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

The Site Operations and Maintenance Coordinator duties will include:

• Planning and managing site work schedules.

• Conducting inductions and toolbox talks.

• Maintaining good health and safety practice in general including carrying out on-site adhoc

high level H&S audits of 3rd party contractors.

• Conducting regular general site inspections and maintaining records of condition and

managing specialist contractors where required to conduct more detailed inspections.

• Monitoring production and operations regularly through SCADA etc so that any faults can

be responded to quickly and downtime minimised, plus expediting plant start-ups after

system faults.

• Managing regular maintenance works to site equipment and infrastructure.

• Managing ongoing habitat management or environmental mitigation works.

• Ensuring building/site security and safety systems are maintained in good working order.

• Maintaining project inspection records and maintenance logs.

• Providing timely reporting on completed and scheduled works.

• Managing and in some cases undertaking minor maintenance works, including cleaning

hydro intakes, replacing building water supply filters & lighting, weed management etc.

• Supporting our relationships with landowners, local communities and project

stakeholders.

ABOUT THE CANDIDATE

Essential Qualifications, Skills, Experience, Knowledge & Understanding

1. Experience in managing operations and maintenance of renewable energy sites, including

wind farms.

2. Good understanding of operational site safety requirements and familiarity with the Wind

Turbine Safety Rules.

3. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with fluency in English and the ability

to produce accurate, succinct and informative inspection reports.

4. Proficient use of Windows based IT systems and basic office software such as emails

(Outlook), word processing (Word), spreadsheets (Excel) and PowerPoint.

5. Ability to take, store and manipulate (eg re-size) photographs, using these, where

appropriate, to support site inspection reports with accompanying and/or embedded

images.

6. Effective time-management skills and the ability to manage multiple projects

simultaneously.

7. Ability to create and maintain high quality, detailed records of work undertaken and

planned, all such records to be uploaded and saved in designated locations on the GreenPower file-server.

8. Full UK driving licence.

Desirable Qualifications, Skills, Experience, and Knowledge & Understanding

1. Experience with using SCADA systems.

2. Familiarity with HV safety rules.

3. Experience using non-specialist light duty power and hand tools to undertake minor works

safely.

4. First aid qualification and other H&S related certifications such as manual handling,

managing HSE at work (or willingness to acquire).

5. GWO Working at Height certification (or willingness to acquire).

Candidates should also have the following personal attributes and general aptitude:

1. High ethical and quality standards.

2. Self-starter, but also able to work positively and effectively within a team.

3. Comfortable working remotely in difficult and physically demanding conditions.

4. Good inter-personal skills to promote a professional working environment and readiness

to politely insist, when required, on the proper delivery of works that have been instructed.

5. Flexible approach to work, with drive and determination to see work completed on time

and to a high standard.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum, depending on experience.
• Contracted hours: 37.5 hours per week.
• Working hours: Our normal office hours are Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:30pm.
• As Site Operations and Maintenance Coordinator you will need to attend sites at times that suit contractors and works taking place and this will entail early starts and/or late finishes. Therefore, your working hours will require to be flexible and agreed with your manager.
• From time to time, you may be required to work out with and/or in excess
• of your normal working hours. Remuneration for such additional hours is already contained within the salary.
• Location of work: Home based with site based travel and occasional travel to HQ in Alloa.
• The nature of this post will require staying away from home on occasions.
• Annual leave: This post carries a holiday entitlement of 25 days personal leave, plus 12 statutory holidays / office closure days per annum.
• Sick pay: Occupational sick pay available.
• Pension: GreenPower operates and auto-enrolment pension scheme with the Employer contribution of 3% of gross salary. This is subject to pension auto-enrolment rules and therefore a small contribution may also be required from employees depending on your applicable salary. Salary sacrifice available.
• Private health insurance (with the option to add partner / family members on at a cost). Private health insurance is a benefit in kind.
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme.
• Team bonus scheme.
• Company Vehicle Provided
• Responsible to: Reporting to the Asset Manager.
• GreenPower believes in ongoing personal skills growth, and we will work with you to determine your needs and interests and to encourage and support you in your personal development.
• Review: Performance will be reviewed initially after 3 & 6 months and annually thereafter.

Application Instructions:

To apply for this position please send your CV to stuart.mitchell@edenscott.com