O&M Consulting
Benchmark your turbines, optimise your operations.
Expert guidance to cut costs, boost reliability, and improve O&M performance.
O&M Consulting
When your wind assets need to perform at their peak, we deliver the O&M expertise that makes the difference.
We work directly with asset managers and regional operations teams to diagnose inefficiencies, optimise maintenance strategies, and introduce practical improvements that reduce downtime and drive long-term value. Whether you’re scaling operations, tackling reliability challenges, or seeking a more data-driven approach, we deliver tailored, engineering-led support.
Our approach combines industry best practices with your unique operational needs, ensuring that every recommendation is grounded in real-world experience and proven to work in the field.
How we help
Explore how our consulting services improve performance and reduce O&M costs across the lifecycle of your wind assets.
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End of Warranty Campaigns
By combining shadow monitoring and on-the-ground inspection data we turn end-of-warranty pressure into clarity and action.
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Maintenance Audits
Verify maintenance quality, identify gaps, and optimise performance across your fleet with an independent maintenance audit.
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Reliability Centred Maintenance
Bring your maintenance programme into the 21st century with data-driven RCM.
The team
Your O&M Consulting team
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Colin McNichols MEng
VP, Engineering (North America)
Colin holds a master’s in mechanical engineering and has worked in the wind industry since 2011. Having started out specialising in gearbox design, he has focused on engineering consulting, analysis and hardware installs at ONYX since 2014.
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Gareth Morris
Engineering Manager (Europe & LatAm)
Gareth is a mechanical engineer with expertise in wind turbine reliability, inspections and predictive maintenance. Drawing on his background in military aviation and a general engineering degree, he specialises in offshore operations and asset management.
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Kyunghyun Lee
Engineering Manager (Asia-Pacific)
Kyunghyun has a master’s in wind characterisation and has been with ONYX Insight - through Romax initially - since 2012. Today, he takes charge of consulting and project management in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Jesse Graeter
Principal Engineer
Jesse entered wind in 2008 as a design engineer at GE followed by joining ONYX in 2013. His consultancy role includes instrumentation, failure investigations, monitoring R&D, and reliability engineering. He’s a licensed professional engineer with a degree in mechanical engineering.
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Richard Smith
Principal Engineer, Mechanical (Europe)
Richard has vast experience of both onshore and offshore technologies, delivering specialist experience in gears and bearings, and providing practical solutions for associated issues with both.
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Colin McNichols MEng
VP, Engineering (North America)
Colin holds a master’s in mechanical engineering and has worked in the wind industry since 2011. Having started out specialising in gearbox design, he has focused on engineering consulting, analysis and hardware installs at ONYX since 2014.
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Gareth Morris
Engineering Manager (Europe & LatAm)
Gareth is a mechanical engineer with expertise in wind turbine reliability, inspections and predictive maintenance. Drawing on his background in military aviation and a general engineering degree, he specialises in offshore operations and asset management.
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Kyunghyun Lee
Engineering Manager (Asia-Pacific)
Kyunghyun has a master’s in wind characterisation and has been with ONYX Insight - through Romax initially - since 2012. Today, he takes charge of consulting and project management in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Jesse Graeter
Principal Engineer
Jesse entered wind in 2008 as a design engineer at GE followed by joining ONYX in 2013. His consultancy role includes instrumentation, failure investigations, monitoring R&D, and reliability engineering. He’s a licensed professional engineer with a degree in mechanical engineering.
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Richard Smith
Principal Engineer, Mechanical (Europe)
Richard has vast experience of both onshore and offshore technologies, delivering specialist experience in gears and bearings, and providing practical solutions for associated issues with both.
Optimise and benchmark your maintenance to reduce cost and risk.
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