Senior Telecom Engineer - Operational Technology

Senior Telecom Engineer - Operational Technology

Role Objective

Ensure reliable, secure, and resilient mission-critical telecommunications, tracking, and surveillance services across offshore wind farms in construction and operation. Support safe and effective operations for Operational Control Centres, Maritime Control Centres, and onshore and offshore Operations and Maintenance teams. Own telecommunications solutions throughout their lifecycle, from analysis and engineering through deployment, maintenance, improvement, and decommissioning.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer, deploy, maintain, and continuously improve operational telecommunications, tracking, and surveillance systems across the wind farm portfolio.
• Maintain the performance, capacity, availability, and resilience of primary, secondary, and tertiary communication paths.
• Provide technical support to control centres and site teams, including incident response, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Develop lifecycle, maintenance, upgrade, replacement, and decommissioning roadmaps for telecommunications infrastructure.
• Lead defined technical work packages through specialist contractors and verify delivery against contracts, standards, and quality expectations.
• Ensure solutions comply with spectrum licensing, maritime and aviation regulations, cybersecurity requirements, and national telecommunications rules.

Tasks

• Design, deploy, and maintain TETRA, VHF and UHF radio systems, microwave links, radar, AIS, ADS-B, Starlink, 4G and 5G connectivity, and PBX systems.
• Deliver vessel and aircraft tracking capabilities that enable control centres to maintain operational situational awareness.
• Monitor system health, performance, capacity, and availability, identifying risks and improvement needs before they affect operations.
• Maintain contingency communications and secondary and tertiary links to protect operations during unforeseen events and failures.
• Perform infrastructure lifecycle assessments and create practical maintenance, upgrade, replacement, and decommissioning plans.
• Analyse incidents, establish root causes, and implement corrective, preventive, and proactive improvement actions.
• Prepare technical designs and align interfaces with internal workstreams, operational teams, and third parties.
• Support technical purchasing, contract negotiations, solution validation, acceptance testing, and supplier performance activities.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation, including system architecture diagrams, data sheets, equipment lists, operating manuals, procedures, and change records.
• Support internal and external audits and travel to European offices and wind farm sites for project delivery, troubleshooting, inspections, testing, training, and meetings.

Decision Authority / Responsibility

• Take end-to-end responsibility for assigned telecommunications solutions and technical work packages within agreed governance and delegated authority.
• Make technical recommendations based on operational risk, system resilience, regulatory compliance, lifecycle condition, and supportability.
• Coordinate contractors and suppliers and verify that fixed-scope deliveries meet contractual and technical quality requirements.
• Escalate safety-critical failures, cybersecurity concerns, compliance risks, unresolved technical issues, and threats to operational continuity.

Requirements

• Degree in Telecommunications Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent expertise gained through relevant professional experience.
• Extensive experience deploying and maintaining mission-critical telecommunications, tracking, or surveillance infrastructure in operational environments.
• Strong knowledge of radio communications infrastructure, including TETRA and VHF or UHF systems.
• Practical experience with several relevant technologies such as microwave links, radar, AIS, ADS-B, Starlink, 4G or 5G connectivity, and PBX systems.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot faults in radio communications networks and associated systems and to lead structured root-cause analysis.
• Technical project management experience, including contract documents, technical standards, engineering design, and supplier-led work packages.
• Experience supporting technical procurement, contract negotiations, solution validation, testing, and acceptance activities.
• Strong technical documentation skills covering architecture diagrams, data sheets, equipment lists, operating manuals, procedures, and maintenance records.
• Sound understanding of resilient communications, lifecycle management, cybersecurity, and relevant telecommunications, maritime, aviation, or spectrum obligations.
• Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to connect technical, operational, commercial, and supplier perspectives across multidisciplinary teams.
• Able to work independently, adapt to changing priorities, and travel within Europe at short notice; candidates must also be able to meet any applicable security-clearance requirements.