Halden Marine
Tidal & offshore engineering · Aberdeen
What they look for (Trades & Construction): Engineers, technicians, and field operators who like cold weather and clear documentation. We work in genuinely difficult conditions, so we hire for calm, for thoroughness, and for the willingness to be wrong in front of colleagues.
What would make you genuinely useful on a tidal turbine commissioning team in the Pentland Firth?
Inside the Aberdeen engineering firm betting that tidal energy is finally ready
Halden Marine was founded by three ex-North Sea oilfield engineers in 2014, in the unglamorous belief that the skills built up over four decades of offshore hydrocarbons should be deliberately redirected into the renewable build-out. A decade in, they employ 220 people across offices in Aberdeen and Stromness.
Why tidal, and why now
Tidal generation has spent thirty years being five years away. What changed is not the physics; it's the supply chain. The same yards in north-east Scotland that fabricate jackets and modules for offshore oil now have spare capacity, trained welders, and a domestic interest in keeping them busy.
The engineering culture
The firm runs on long-form documentation. Every commissioning team writes up a 'lessons file' at the end of each campaign. The cultural rule is straightforward: if you found out the hard way, you write it down so the next person doesn't have to.
Field life
Work rotations are two weeks on, two off. Pay is competitive with offshore oil and the firm publishes its banding internally.
"Calm beats clever offshore. We hire for calm."