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The Opportunity
Due to progressive times in the Renewables industry, we are leading the way with consistent growth and exciting future developments.
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 over 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 are also seeking to deliver further growth through our own development pipeline or though securing new project acquisitions. We currently have consent for over 2GW of production going through planning and development.
As a Wind Turbine Technician in our North Scotland team based at Corriemoillie Wind Farm (Garve), every day is different and provides a real opportunity to make a difference in our ambition to help the UK achieve Net Zero.
You will work across multiple assets (predominantly GE 3.X platforms but could also include Vestas) to deliver scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, Fault finding and repair services to our onshore wind turbine projects.
Location; Corriemoillie Wind Farm (Garve), Scotland, IV23 2PQ
Pay, Benefits And Culture
At EDF Renewables we are 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 very competitive salary, we offer an annual bonus, competitive on-call payments, overtime, overnight allowances, High Voltage (HV) Senior Authorised Persons Payment and have a market-leading pension scheme We also offer a range of flexible benefits, which you can keep as additional income or spend on the benefits that matter to you, whether that’s an electric vehicle, private healthcare, or additional holiday. In addition to these we also offer employee discounts to multiple Highstreet names to help you thrive across all aspects of your life.
We are committed to championing diversity representation across all roles in our business. This is underpinned by our “Everyone’s Welcome” inclusion programme.
We are a disability confident employer and we will 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 by checking 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 attended 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 paced, evolving industry with Zero Harm as the core ambition, then this could be the ideal job for you.
Your role will be to carry out scheduled and reactive maintenance accordance with manufacturer’s guideline in addition to:
- Report and plan daily maintenance activity.
- Coordinate local spare part and consumable stock.
- Fault-finding, troubleshooting, maintenance and repair on all turbine systems, which will include mechanical, electrical and hydraulic assemblies and major components.
- Proactive repair or component replacement to prevent complete failure or system downtime.
- Supervise specialist and subcontractor activity during main component exchange.
- Provide safety induction to contractors and visitors.
- 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 CT/ AT qualification under Wind Turbine Safety Rules (WTSR) and have significant technical expertise gained through a blend of academic (Electrical or Mechanical NVQ/HNC/HND) and “hands on” operational environments.
We are looking for a strong safety-minded person with excellent analytical thinking, be a self-starter. This role requires a strong technical prowess. Equally important is a genuine enjoyment and enthusiasm for working in this field.
Previous experience as a with turbine technician would be desirable and experience of GE turbines would be advantageous.
You will have an excellent understanding of health and safety practices, rules and regulations.
For this role you must live within a 60 minute radius of our Corriemollie Wind Farm, Scotland, IV23 2PQ .
Closing date for applications: 26th January 2025
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.
