Wind Turbine Technician

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The Opportunity

As a Wind Turbine Technician in our Scottish Borders team at Fallago Rig (TD3 6NW), every day is different and provides a real opportunity to make a difference in our ambition to help the UK achieve Net Zero.

You’ll work across multiple assets (predominantly Vestas MW platforms but could also include Senvion & Nordex) to deliver scheduled and unscheduled maintenance services to our onshore wind turbine projects.

Pay, benefits and culture 

If you’re looking to join a company where you can work hard, have fun, and help to create a Net Zero future – then you’re in the right place!’

Our passion for embracing new ideas and being open-minded to change helps us continue to grow successfully.

We’re committed to helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment. 

Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that’s an electric vehicle, private healthcare, additional holiday or one or more of our other benefits.

We’re committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone’s Welcome inclusion programme.
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need. 

What you’ll be doing

You will be responsible for delivering scheduled and unscheduled maintenance services on wind turbines in accordance with manufacturers’ guidelines.

• Deliver scheduled and unscheduled maintenance services on wind turbines in accordance with manufacturers’ guidelines.
• Report and plan maintenance activity.
• Manage spare parts and consumable stock.
• Fault find, troubleshoot, maintain and repair all wind turbine systems, which includes mechanical, electrical and hydraulic assemblies and major components.
• Proactively repair or replace components to prevent complete failure or system downtime.
• Supervise specialist and subcontractor activity during main component exchange.
• Comply with all health and safety requirements including the WTSR.
• Provide out of hours and weekend response to turbine breakdown.
• Ensure the highest level of turbine availability.

What do you need to be great at this role?

You’ll be a time served Engineer (electrical/mechanical) with a primary focus on ensuring operations and maintenance activities are undertaken to the highest levels you’ll ideally hold a AT/AE qualification under Wind Turbine Safety Rules (WTSR) and have significant technical expertise gained through a blend of academic (Electrical or Mechanical HNC/HND/NVQ) and “hands on” operational environments. 

You will have an excellent understanding of health and safety practices, rules and regulation as well as accreditation or previous accreditation as an Authorising Technician (AT) / Authorising Engineer (AE) under WTSR.  

It is essential to have a full driver’s licence for this role.
 

Closing date for applications: 10th of November 2024

Location: You will be based at our Fallago Rig Wind Farm. You must live within 45minutes of the Service centre - TD3 6NW
 

Why EDF Renewables?

At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we’re committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.

It’s a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland’s challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland’s most diverse generator of renewable energy.

To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we’re working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.

If you’re passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us. 

Join us, and let’s do good together.