wind turbine technician

[headless10016]

hi im just wondering if anyone would know how i would go about working within the turbine industry or if they have any contacts and where i should apply. at the minute i am working towards my safety in the wind turbine diploma which gives me gwo working at heights, gwo first aid, gwo manual handling, gwo fire awareness and gwo sea survival(boat transfer).
i am also a qualified welder up to level 2 city and guilds in mig, tig and mma so i was wondering if anybody had any advice for me at all please

[DMN]

Best advice is: get your CV round to as many folks as you can. I used to work in the industry, and my Wife and several friends still are.

Having the qualifications you've listed will be a big help. Having experience of working with composites would be a bigger benefit.

[Meltham Terrier]

Hi,

Siemens were advertising a few weeks ago in Cranes and Access mag, also check out www.vertikal.net.

Not sure if still current.

Good luck.

[GSP]

There is an entire 30 pages thread on here with more advice than you need to secure a position. Just do a quick search.

The UK will be going quite over the next 2 years for physical on the ground work while round 3 projects are sold, contracts signed and works planned. Germany will be where the work is if you already have the experience, but you may struggle otherwise. I'm sure there will still be companies recruiting extensively for the huge increase in resource requirements in late 2015 / early 2016.

I always say don't do any specific training, as most manufacturers and developers will put you through there own training plans as a new technician anyway, so it would be wasted money. It may only benefit you if you can somehow secure a position with a third party supplier of technicians, but this is unlikely without very relevant experience.

Welding is unfortunately not really a required skill.