An Offshore Control Room Operations Engineer required for a major Offshore Wind farm developer based in Ireland

• Develop and maintain offshore control room operating policies, procedures, playbooks, operating instructions, shift handover requirements and operator training material.
• Support all signal and data management for the control room, including ancillary systems, marine coordination, personnel locator beacon data, cable distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), distributed temperature sensing (DTS) and other systems required to facilitate safe and effective offshore control room operations.
• Define the offshore control room operational readiness requirements, including operating model, escalation paths, resilience arrangements and operational acceptance criteria.
• Lead engagement by providing direction and assurance to developers with control room signal interfaces to comply with functional specifications.
• Support development of functional control room human-machine interface requirements, single-line diagram conventions, alarm presentation standards and operator workflow requirements as inputs to SCADA, technical and architecture teams.
• Establish signal interface, migration and testing philosophies, roadmaps and templates to support progressive integration of offshore projects into control room operations.
• Conduct operational design risk assessments and propose mitigations to ensure resilience, contingency response and safe operation during normal and abnormal operating conditions.
• Support establishment of operational interfaces and handover boundaries between control rooms, network operators, developers and relevant asset operators.
• Support commissioning, energisation and operational acceptance by reviewing operating procedures, training evidence, control room readiness, alarm and signal quality, and handover requirements.
• Contribute to stage-gate reviews on customer projects to ensure functional specification requirements are met and lessons learned are captured and shared following project energisation.
• Lead engagement and coordination with key stakeholders, including meetings, reporting, relationship management and general communication relevant to the owner''s engineer role.

• Chartered Engineer status, a BEng degree and Safe Pass certification.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in power system operations, commissioning or operational readiness.
• Experience with safety systems.
• Experience in control room operations, including operational procedures, real-time decision support, escalation arrangements and shift-based operating environments.
• Strong understanding of control room operating models, SCADA/HMI, alarm management, signal interfaces, operational technology and secondary systems.
• Experience with offshore transmission assets or HV substations is desirable.
• Experience developing operational policies, procedures, playbooks, training material and operational readiness or acceptance criteria.
• Experience reviewing developer or EPC submissions, commissioning requirements, DOF evidence and operational handover deliverables.
• Excellent communication skills, including high-quality report writing and the ability to communicate technical issues clearly and effectively.
• Ability to lead and influence others towards a common vision or goal and work collaboratively with and through others.
• Passionate and engaging, with the drive and enthusiasm to deliver organisational objectives.
• Excellent interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Full driving licence.