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 Millennium Windfarm in Inverness-Shire.
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Millennium Windfarm, Inverness-Shire
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 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.
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.
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 Millennium Windfarm, Inverness-Shire. You will carry out general and specialised work including repairs, troubleshooting and fault finding activities to ensure 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:
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.
Candidate must have Mechanical or Electrical training through time served or a technical college qualification which should be at least NVQ Level 3 or equivalent.
Candidate must be able to identify and define problems, extract crucial information from technical data, and develop workable solutions.
Other essential skills and behaviours required for this role include:
What we can offer you?
Time Off: 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. Employees can purchase up to 5 days of additional annual leave each year.
Health & Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme (therapist sessions), Bike2Work Scheme, paid eye tests & contribution towards glasses, company sick pay scheme, option to purchase private healthcare.
Volunteering: 2 paid working days per calendar year to carry out volunteering activities in your local community.
Family Friendly: Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, compassionate leave, life insurance.
Memberships: Nordex will reimburse the cost of one annual professional subscription fee to a relevant professional institution.
Closing date: Friday 10th July 2026.
