Key skills
Switching
About this role
Role Overview
- Monitor and analyse asset performance (BESS), identifying underperformance and implementing corrective actions
- Oversee O&M contractors to ensure adherence to KPIs, SLAs, and technical standards
- Review SCADA data, fault reports, and maintenance logs to optimise availability and efficiency
- Validate contractor performance data against SCADA/data platforms to identify underperformance, trends, degradation issues, or contractual breaches
- Lead root cause analysis for major incidents or recurring issues
- Support lifecycle planning, including major component replacements and upgrades
- Ensure compliance with grid codes, safety standards, and regulatory requirements
- Coordinate planned and unplanned maintenance activities
- Manage outages and ensure minimal downtime across the portfolio
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance asset performance and reduce costs
- Support commissioning and integration of new assets into the portfolio
- Conduct regular 'Point of Work' (POW) audits and RAMS reviews to ensure site-level safety compliance meets Zenobe's standards
- Act as a key stakeholder in the enforcement of HV and LV Safety Rules, ensuring all site works are conducted under a robust safety management system.
- Oversee the coordination of safety activities with HV contractors, TSOs and DNOs, ensuring that cross-boundary safety interfaces and switching requirements are managed by qualified specialists in accordance with rules.
- Lead the coordination of safety activities with system operators / distribution network operators, specifically managing cross-boundary safety interfaces and switching requirements.
- Own the site access and security protocols, ensuring that only competent, authorised personnel enter operational areas and that security systems are maintained to protect asset integrity.
- Drive the technical investigation of any safety incidents or near-misses, ensuring root causes are identified and preventive actions are implemented and lessons learned shared across the wider fleet.
- Conduct technical reviews of RAMS and competence records for site-level interventions, performing regular "Point of Work" (POW) audits to verify that safety theory matches site reality.
- Support audits, compliance activities, and HSE requirements
- Participate in the on-call rota for priority 1 incident response
Requirements
- Degree in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, or related discipline), or solid technical acumen from on-the-job training.
- Experience in the operational management of BESS of complex power infrastructure
- Strong understanding of utility-scale energy systems and performance metrics
- Experience with contractual frameworks (e.g., EPC, O&M, LTSA agreements)
- Experience managing O&M contractors and technical service providers
- Proficiency in using SCADA systems and data platforms to independently verify asset health
- Working knowledge of grid compliance and health & safety standards
- Strong operational judgement and problem‑solving skills
- Confident communicator with internal teams and external suppliers
- Ability to dive deep into technical root cause analysis while also being able to summarise commercial risks and portfolio impacts for management-level reporting
- Comfortable working independently and managing competing priorities.
- NEBOSH or IOSH qualifications
Tech Stack
- Switching
Benefits
- Up to 33% annual bonus for being awesome
- 25 days holiday, increasing with length of service up to 30 days, plus bank holidays
- Private Medical Insurance
- £1,500 training budget per year, to ensure you grow as we do
- EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Pension scheme, up to 8% matched contributions
- Enhanced parental leave
- Cash back health plan
- Plus more