Wind Turbine Service Technician - Glen Kyllachy

Do you share our passion of renewable energy for a greener and sustainable future?

Nordex has an exciting opportunity for the role of Wind Turbine Service Technician based at Glen Kyllachy Windfarm in the Scottish Highlands.

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Glen Kyllachy Windfarm, Scottish Highlands

Hours: Our core hours are 37 per week (Monday – Thursday 8am – 4:30pm and Friday 8am till 1pm) with a requirement to work overtime when required.

Our Service Technicians are also required to be available for any breakdowns and faults at the weekend, working on-call every 2nd or 3rd weekend (depending on the size of the team). Overtime is paid at time and a half, and you will receive an additional payment for the weekend you are on call.

As our Service Technicians are required to work overtime and on call there is a requirement for successful candidates to live within a radius of up to 1 hour from the windfarm.

As a Wind Turbine Service Technician, you will be responsible for the servicing and maintenance of Nordex wind turbines covering turbines at Glen Kyllachy Windfarm in the Scottish Highlands. You will carry out general and specialised work including repairs, troubleshooting and fault finding activities ensuring our wind turbines continue to achieve a high level of availability.

You will be responsible for Wind Turbine availability, which means physically troubleshooting turbines not performing to capacity on various wind farms, as well as analysing data and other information to create and support implementing action plans that will increase performance in the fleet.

• On site performance analysis and action plan implementation
• Working closely with Technicians and Back Office staff to perform on the job demonstrations
• Supporting on site single turbine improvements on problem turbines
• Providing on site software and hardware updates
• Supporting on line and on phone technical support
• Creating reports on turbine or turbine components
• Parameter disabling and alarm change handling when necessary

The ideal candidate will have experience of working in the Mechanical or Electrical industry and be able to demonstrate knowledge of reading electrical, hydraulic and mechanical diagrams. You will be Mechanical or Electrical trained through time-served or a technical college qualification which should be at least NVQ Level 3 or equivalent. You will be able to demonstrate you can identify and define problems, extract crucial information from technical data, and develop workable solutions to problems.

• The ability to adapt to an environment of continuous change and different challenges
• A positive attitude with a willingness to learn, lead and continuously improve
• Computer literate and confident in using MS office packages, in house databases and workload management systems
• This role involves working at heights, up to 140m. You will need to be fit and healthy and pass a working at height test.
• You will be required to travel on an occasional basis which includes nights away from home
• A full UK or EU Driving Licence is required for this role.

• Our teams receive 33 days annual leave including bank holidays. After two years continual service you will be entitled to an additional days holiday per annum (Maximum 5 days).
• You will also have an extra day off for your birthday.
• In addition we also offer our employees the opportunity to purchase up to 5 days of additional annual leave every year.

• Health & Wellbeing benefits:
  Employee Assistance Programme offering therapy sessions, Bike2
  
  Work Scheme, Paid Eye tests and contribution towards Glasses, Company Sick pay scheme, option to purchase Private Healthcare.
• Volunteering:
  Employees can use 2 paid working days per calendar year to carry out volunteering activities in local community.
• Family friendly:
  Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave, Compassionate Leave, Life Insurance.
• Memberships:
  Nordex will reimburse cost of one annual professional subscription fee to one professional institution relevant to your work.