Wind Turbine Technician

 
Are you looking for a career where you can really make a difference? Come and join us as a Wind Turbine Technician in our Asset Operations Business Area.

EDF Renewables UK is one of the UK’s leading renewable energy companies, specialising in wind power and battery storage technology. We develop, build, operate and maintain wind farms and other renewable technologies throughout their lifetime.

Our portfolio of nearly 1,000 MW consists of 36 wind farms – including two offshore wind farms – and one of the largest operational battery storage units in Europe. We’re also is seeking to deliver further growth from its own development pipeline or though securing new acquisitions of projects and has more than 2GW consented, in planning and development.

As a Wind Turbine Technician in our England North team based in our Meadowfield Service Centre (DH7 8XD) 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 (Nordex N Series, Senvion and Vestas) to deliver scheduled and unscheduled maintenance services to our onshore wind turbine projects.

Location; Meadowfield, Durham, DH7 8XD

Pay, benefits and culture 

At EDF Renewables we’re dedicated to doing good things and we take pride in tackling the world’s biggest challenge – climate change. We do this by embracing new ideas to create an innovative and open-minded culture, a culture where we trust the best versions of ourselves to make good things happen.

Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and a 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, or additional holiday.

We’ll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that’s on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.

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.

As a part of the Wind Turbine Technician Team, your typical day will start at 8AM to check the status of turbines within the area. Any faults or issues will be reported by our 24/7/365 monitoring centre based in France. The turbine issue reported will be accessed by yourself or one of the team with the correct spares, tooling and documentation gathered. Followed by setting to work and a Toolbox Talk for the working party.

After setting ourselves up for success with our toolbox talk, you will head out to complete any fault rectification work or planned work such as Service, Statutory compliance, HV Maintenance support, blade inspections and at times more serious work packages such as gearbox or generator replacements as and when required.

No 2 days are the same working on wind turbines and the role keeps our technicians on their toes.
If you like a challenge, trouble shooting in a fast, evolving industry with Zero Harm as the core ambition then this could be the ideal job for you.

Your role will be to schedule and reactive maintenance accordance with manufacturer’s guideline in addition to:

• Maintaining the highest levels of safety to comply with all health and safety requirements including the WTSR.
• Fault-finding, troubleshooting, maintenance and repair on all turbine systems, which will include mechanical, electrical and hydraulic assemblies and major components.
• Scheduled service in accordance with manufacturer’s guidelines
• Reporting and planning daily maintenance activity.
• Coordinating local spare part and consumable stock.
• Proactive repair or component replacement to prevent complete failure or system downtime.
• Supervising specialist and subcontractor activity during main component exchange.
• Maintaining the highest levels of safety to comply with all health and safety requirements including the WTSR.
• Provide safety induction to contractors and visitors.
• Providing out of hours and weekend response to turbine breakdown.
• Ensuring 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. 
• HNC in mechatronics or equivalent.
• Qualification in electrical and/or mechanical disciplines to NVQ3 level (or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience)
• Preferably experienced on wind turbines in a technician capacity. Knowledge of Senvion Nordex N series and Vestas wind turbine projects in accordance with manufacturer’s guidelines.
• Knowledge of Siemens, Vestas MW machines and/or Nordex N series will be a plus
• High level of physical fitness and good health
• Previous accreditation as AT/AE under WTSR
• High level of computer literacy
• Technical and Commercial Knowledge and Skills
• Strong safety minded person
• Excellent analytical thinking
• Strong sense of organisation and planning

For this role you must drive and live with a 30 mile/45-minute radius of our Meadowfield Service Centre in Durham.

Closing date for applications: Sunday 20th October 2024

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