Wind Turbine Technician Review

I spent 9 months at Tyne Metropolitan College in Newcastle studying a C&G in Wind Turbine Maintenance and Operations and am working towards my NVQ level 3. I spent a further month completing appropriate training courses all GWO standard including HUET and Off Shore Survival. I've spent the rest of my time on various sites in the north of Scotland where I have undergone mostly maintenance tasks such as year one servicing and year ten servicing though I have been highly involved in some heavy lift jobs and large scale component changes. I have completed a generator/main bearing change in one day on a Siemens 3MW Direct Drive Turbine. I have also been part of a team to almost completely replace a 1.3MW turbine after a thermal incident. The list goes on, various main bearing changes, gearbox changes and yaw gear/motor replacements. Another part of my job is to be able to fault find, as of yet I have not been able to get really involved with fault finding but I look forward to it.

Yes, every day I am learning something new.

I thouroughly enjoy my apprenticship, I meet loads of great people and the whole experiance is great.

I am very well looked after.

Verywell organised for being such a new apprenticship.

As much as needed.

As much as needed.

Very well paid, however paying for food when away from home can be quite costly.

We do a lot of stuff outside of work, but there could be more opportunities.

Yes

Great company, great apprenticship and a great industry.

Research engineers.