Energise Your Career, Accelerate a Net-Zero Future #RenewablesJobs
The opportunity
An exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join and enhance our Scotland North Team as a Wind Turbine Technician during a period of consistent growth and exciting future developments.
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.
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.
Pay, Benefits And Culture
If you're looking to
join a
company where you can
work hard,
have fun, and
help to create a Net Zero future - then you're in the right place!'
Our passion for
embracing new ideas and being open-minded to change helps us continue to grow successfully.
We're committed to
helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment.
Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and 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, additional holiday or one or more of our other benefits.
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
You'll work across multiple assets (predominantly GE MW platforms but could also include Vestas) to deliver scheduled and unscheduled maintenance services to our onshore wind turbine projects.
- Schedule service in accordance with manufacturer's guidelines.
- Reporting on maintenance activities.
- Ensure spare part and consumable stck levels are maintained.
- 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.
- Complying with all health and safety requirements including the Wind Turbine Safety Rules (WTSR)
- Providing out of hours and weekend response to site breakdowns.
- 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/hydraulic) 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 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 regulation as well as accreditation or previous accreditation as an Authorising Technician (AT) / Authorising Engineer (AE) under WTSR.
It is essential to have a full clean driver's licence for this role.
Closing date for applications: Sunday 10th November 2024
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.
