Wind Turbine Technician

About The Role

This role is based in Woodchester, Gloucestershire.

You will provide an essential role in maintaining Ecotricity’s fleet of onshore Enercon wind turbines throughout the UK to a high standard, carrying out preventive and corrective maintenance when required.

The Operations and Maintenance Department Service Centre is based in Woodchester, Gloucestershire where you report each week. Due to the location of our generating assets, working away from home may be required at short notice. You will be provided with all relevant training, PPE and tooling required to conduct the role to the highest standards. A company van will also be supplied to travel between the Service Centre and relevant sites.

You will be required to work a 6 week rolling shift pattern of : 7 days “On” then 7 days “Off”, followed by 4 weeks of Monday to Friday.

Entry salary for this role is £36,000 - £44,120 depending on experience, with average annual overtime and allowances earnings approximately £10,000, plus a 5% shift allowance.

Core responsibilities :

• Working remotely in a small team performing all activities related to the maintenance and repair of generation assets.
• Responsible for fault finding and troubleshooting electrical and mechanical systems.
• Carry out repair or replacement of main components.
• Responsible for completion of all computerised documentation and reports.
• Ensure operational integrity and safety of generation assets is maintained to the highest standards.
• Uphold and drive a positive safety culture through your onsite actions.

What we offer :

About You

You will have proven ability to maintain, repair and fault find on a variety of technical equipment both electrically and mechanically to a high standard with minimal supervision. You will also be able to comply with all health and safety aspects of working in an engineering environment.

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What's in it for you...

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too - we build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.