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Operational Assets and Marine Controller
Newtownards, Northern Ireland, UK
Permanent position
About Us:
James Fisher Renewables provides comprehensive and trusted solutions to offshore wind and renewables market. The services include high voltage engineering solutions, from conceptual design to installation, operations, and maintenance, as well as blade services. With extensive experience working on over 60 wind farms—both onshore and offshore—- in the UK, Europe, APAC and United States.
The Energy Division provides safe, sustainable products and services for two core markets, oil and gas and renewables.
The Role:
JFR provides Control Room Services to Offshore and Onshore Windfarms across the UK, Ireland, mainland Europe and Asia on a 24-hour basis. Our clients rely on accurate identification of alarms (based on criticality) to ensure the safety of personnel and risk to infrastructure is minimised.
The successful candidate will interface daily with major renewable generation clients and major infrastructure stakeholders including National Grid, UK DNOs, SONI, EirGrid and Offshore Transmission Owners (OFTOs)
In addition, to assist Senior Marine Co-Ordinator with the controls and monitoring of all marine activity with regards to personnel, contractors and CTVs for each individual offshore work scope.
Principle Accountabilities:
- To ensure the risk to our client’s electrical network infrastructure is minimised by ensuring that the system is monitored to ensure system events are logged and appropriate action is taken dependant on criticality.
- Engaging with the Control Room Engineer to ensure critical alarms are acted on appropriately.
- Engaging with Authorised field personnel to ensure speedy response to specific alarms.
- Issuing alarm reports to clients daily/weekly & monthly.
- Issuing HV Control update to clients daily to include work completed that day and planned work for the next 24 hours.
- Conduct Emergency switching to disconnect generators from the grid and change voltage set points when requested by the Network System Operator.
Qualifications and Experience:
Core IT skills including Microsoft Office suite.
You will be a self-starter and self-motivator with the ability to work autonomously with the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external customers.
You will need to be flexible with work patterns and responsibilities.
Ideally with a Marine Coordinator qualification or willingness to work towards this.
*Please note that this role operates shifts, and are 12 hours on a day/night rotation.
Due to the volume of applications that we receive for our vacancies, on occasion applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
James Fisher is a global engineering services company. From our origins as a ship owner and operator, we’ve evolved to provide the expertise and innovative technology our customers need in the harshest of environments across Energy, Defence and Maritime Transport.
We are relied on to help our customers deliver on their promises and realise their ambitions safely, efficiently and responsibly.
We have a strong heritage built on the foundations of our people and innovation. Alongside our valuable partnerships with customers, communities and suppliers, we are embedding a more sustainable approach across our business.
Our strategy is centred around the One James Fisher ambition. We are building a stronger, more cohesive engineering service company operating in the Blue Economy.
James Fisher & Sons are committed to taking positive action on diversity and we strongly encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and as a Disability Confident employer we are committed to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
James Fisher and Sons plc, are proud to be partnered with the Career Transition Partnership, the official provider of Armed Forces resettlement for over 20 years.
