Wind Turbine Service Technician - Douglas

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 Douglas, South Lanarkshire.

Contract Type : Permanent

Location : Douglas, South Lanarkshire

Hours : Our core hours are 40 per week (Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm) with an 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.

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 in Douglas, South Lanarkshire . You will carry out general and specialised work including repairs, troubleshooting and fault-finding activities ensuing 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 :

What we can offer you?

Time Off

Health & Wellbeing - The Health and Wellbeing of our employees is incredibly important, which is why we have different benefits for our employees including :

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.

Recruitment Process

The closing date for this role is Thursday 3rd July 2025 , however, please be aware that this role could close early if we receive an overwhelming response.

The first stage of the recruitment process requires you to submit your CV via the Apply Now button. The recruitment team will then review your application and be in touch to confirm if you have been successful in reaching the next stage of the process.

Interviews for this role are due to take place at the end of July 2025 .

We appreciate all the applications we receive and will be in touch with you as soon as we can, so please watch out for our emails or phone calls (which maybe from a withheld number)

Nordex Values, Diversity & Inclusion

Here at Nordex we interact with a variety of people and cultures. Our values of Integrity, Respect, Colleagueship, and Ownership are the unifying force for all departments and regions around the world, these are the standards we walk by.

Our mission is to offer cutting edge, reliable products, and services, generating value for our customers and stakeholders .... All whilst protecting the environment.

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