Job Description Summary

It’s an exciting time to be working in Renewable Energy - and you can play your part. GE Offshore Wind, a GE Renewable Energy business, has more than 800 employees in the world. Today, we have wind turbines operating on three continents, America, Europe and Asia and now have the world’s first 13 MW most powerful offshore wind turbine.

We are now building the largest Wind Farm in the world, launching 250+ Wind Turbines on the North East Coast - Doggerbank.

We are seeking 5 experienced Technicians for the Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farm Project.

The Corrective Technician once qualified will provide corrective maintenance activities on the Haliade X Wind Turbine that will be deployed from an SOV on Dogger Bank.

The successful candidate will have a systematic mindset and be able to trace turbine alarm codes down to source, ensuring that the production based availability of the windfarm is kept to the highest standard and maintaining safety before quality before delivery before cost. Excellent communication and listening skills with the team are essential. You can receive verbal and visual information and implement solutions with reference to detailed documentation. You can follow detailed isolation documentation and apply the procedure to the task being undertaken to maintain safety from the system for you and the team. You have a safety conscious mindset and can build trust within the team.

We want you to become Team Leaders/Experts for when we launch Dogger Bank, likely to spend first six months commuting to various European locations training / working on our Haliade – X to gain expertise and in depth understanding of the turbine systems and subsystems.

Primary location will be the Dogger Bank O&M Base at the Port of Tyne. #DB

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Ensure safe site maintenance operations are carried out with high standards of quality, delivered to budget and according to the defined schedule, recording and tracking relevant KPI’s and reporting on progress, deviations to plans and mitigation.
• Execute Safe delivery of WTG Power Production through continual improvement and standardisation of corrective and preventative maintenance activities, increasing the organisations capabilities to first time fix faults and perform best in class schedule service.
• Responsible for the corrective maintenance of the wind turbine mechanical, electrical and hydraulic systems and sub systems ensuring turbine downtime is kept to a minimum.
• Proactively complete annual retrofits as recommended to reduce identified turbine fault trends and increase production-based availability.
• Be confident and competent in the use of digital cloud-based systems to analyse, record and report various data points within the working day depending on the scopes being undertaken.
• Prolong tool serviceability with daily pre-use checks reporting all defects identified and quarantining when required.
• Support in the improvement of work processes by providing technical and operational feedback to assist problem solving reports and kaizen events, maintaining efficient operations and reducing turbine downtime.
• Be self sufficient in the monitoring, ordering and booking of PPE, Travel and Training maintaining a high level of offshore readiness.
• Maintain offshore presence by accomplishing bi-annual Global Wind Organisation training requirements based on site location and company demand.
• Maintain a high level of technical competence by undertaking and successfully completing Haliade X preventative and corrective training programs defined in the technician’s logbook.
• Act as a role model for the organisation and operation. Supporting the culture and mentality, providing coaching and mentoring to associate technicians in their personal development.
• Experienced with radio communication systems and confident in transmission for offshore deployment and operations.
• Ownership and organisation of spare parts, equipment, and tooling during daily mobilisation and demobilisation as per instructed maintenance activity including the booking in and out of associated parts.
• Secure in obtaining technical information from daily briefings and relaying onto technicians in the working party to achieve a common goal.
• Completion of HV and LV isolation documentation to establish and maintain general safety from the system for the deployed technicians.
• Maintain a solid safety mindset and a safe working environment to assure the executed work reflects the safety culture required from the business, report improvement observations, accident and incidents and assist in any subsequent safety investigations and improvements.
• Report failures, deficiencies or any situation identified that may pose a risk to people and anything that may involve some uncontrolled risk.
• Understand and comply with the site emergency response plan and be engaged with periodic turbine rescue exercises to maintain a high level of rescue preparedness.
• Ensure suitable PPE is worn as per defined requirements for each activity, checking that they are in a serviceable condition and fit for use.
• Establish clear waste segregation during preventative and corrective maintenance activities to facilitate waste transfer on port calls.
• Meet the physical and medical requirements for working offshore. The ability to work at height and in adverse weather conditions.

Travel Expectations:

• The role will be predominantly based at the Port of Tyne, South Shields.
• The role requires international travel.
• Ability and willingness to work offshore as required.

Education / Professional Experience

• Professional engineering education / apprenticeship in a technical discipline with extensive experience.
• Capable of working offshore at site operational wind farms.
• Significant experience of offshore wind maintenance operations.
• Established history of an electrical or electronics background with good solid evidence of problem solving and fault finding.
• Demonstrate ability to work in a cross-functional, global environment, with remote teams as a solid team player who can enable change and get work over the line.

Language(s):

• Fluency in English language

Technical knowledge and skills

• Trusted offshore wind experience or experience in a related discipline
• High motivation level; self-starter with excellent leadership and communication skills
• Solid interpersonal and leadership style
• Demonstrated ability to study and resolve problems in a structured manner.
• Requirement to pass HV trainings define in the technician’s logbook to fulfil the role.

Our UK reward package is comprehensive and flexible, it includes a competitive pension, 26 days holiday, 8 bank holidays private medical insurance, sick pay plus life assurance for your peace of mind. Also, design your own flexible benefits package, including childcare vouchers, cycle to work, travel insurance, dental cover, health assessments, other wellbeing programs and much more

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, under the applicable UK immigration rules as may be in place from time to time, it may be that candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled candidate who does not require sponsorship is available to take up the post. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

Additional Information

#LI-Remote - This is a remote position