Wind Turbine Service Technician - Kilbraur, Scottish Highlands

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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 Kilbraur Windfarm in the Scottish Highlands.

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Kilbraur Windfarm, Scottish Highlands

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

Service Technicians are 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 your team). Overtime is paid at time and a half, and you will receive an additional payment for the weekend you are on on-call.

Successful candidates must live within a radius of up to 1 hour from the windfarm.

How can you make a difference?

As a Wind Turbine Service Technician, you will be responsible for the servicing and maintenance of Nordex wind turbines covering turbines at Kilbraur 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.

What will you be doing?

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 be able to create and support implementing action plans that will increase performance in the fleet.

Key responsibilities for this role include:

• 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 & 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

What are we looking for?

The ideal candidate will have experience of working in the Mechanical / 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.

Other essential skills and behaviours required for this role include:

• 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 / EU Driving Licence is required for this role.

What we can offer you?

Time Off

• Our teams receive 33 days annual leave including bank holidays.
• After two years continual service you will be entitled to an additional day's holiday per annum (Maximum 5 days).
• You will also receive an extra day off for your birthday.
• You can purchase up to 5 days of additional annual leave every year.

Health & Wellbeing

• Employee Assistance Programme (offering therapy sessions)
• Bike2Work Scheme
• Paid Eye tests & contribution towards Glasses
• Company Sick pay scheme
• The option to purchase Private Healthcare

Volunteering

All our employees can use 2 paid working days per calendar year to carry out volunteering activities in your local community.

Family friendly

Our family friendly policies include Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave, Compassionate Leave, and Life Insurance.

Memberships

Nordex will reimburse the cost of one annual professional subscription fee to one professional institution relevant to your work.