Wind Turbine Service Technician - Hull

Nordex; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A renewable energy company is seeking a Wind Turbine Service Technician based in Hull. The role requires servicing and maintaining wind turbines, troubleshooting issues, and implementing performance improvements. Ideal candidates will have experience in the Mechanical/Electrical industry and hold an NVQ Level 3 qualification. Benefits include 33 days annual leave and health support programs.

Benefits

33 days annual leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Bike2Work Scheme

Option to buy additional leave

Enhanced family leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience in the Mechanical / Electrical industry.
• Ability to read electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical diagrams.

Responsibilities

• Service and maintain wind turbines in the Hull area.
• Perform troubleshooting and repairs on-site.
• Implement performance action plans based on analysis.

Skills

Mechanical / Electrical knowledge

Ability to troubleshoot problems

Computer literate

Fit and able to work at heights

Education

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

Job description

Overview

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 Hull.

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Windfarms based in the Hull area

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 around the Hull area. You will carry out general and specialised work including repairs, troubleshooting and fault-finding activities ensuring 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.

• 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

• The ability to adapt to an environment of continuous change and different challenges
• A positive attitude with a willingness to learn, lead and continuously improve
• Computer literate and confident in using MS office packages, in house databases and workload management systems
• This role involves working at heights, up to 140m. You will need to be fit and health and pass a working at height test.
• You will be required to travel on an occasional basis which includes nights away from home
• A full UK / EU Driving Licence is required for this role.

What we can offer you?

Time Off

• Our teams receive 33 days annual leave including bank holidays. After two years continual service you will be entitled to an additional day's holiday per annum (Maximum 5 days).
• You will also an extra day off for your birthday.
• In addition we also offer our employees the opportunity to purchase up to 5 day of additional annual leave every year.

Health & Wellbeing

• The Health and Wellbeing of our employees is incredibly important, which is why we have different benefits for our employees including:
• Employee Assistance Programme (offering therapy sessions)
• Bike2Work Scheme
• Paid Eye tests & contribution towards Glasses
• Company Sick pay scheme
• The option to purchase Private Healthcare

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 Monday 15th September 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 September 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

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