Wind Turbine Service Technician - Burn O'Whilk, Scottish Highlands

Do you share our passion for renewable energy for a greener and sustainable future? Nordex has an exciting opportunity for the role of Wind Turbine Service Technician based at Burn O'Whilk Windfarm in the Scottish Highlands.

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Burn O'Whilk Windfarm, near Wick in the Scottish Highlands

Hours: Our core hours are 37 per week (Monday - Thursday 8am - 4:30pm and Friday 8am till 1pm) with a 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. As our Service Technicians are required to work overtime and on call there is a requirement for successful candidates to live within a radius of up to 1 hour from the windfarm.

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 at Burn O'Whilk Windfarm in the Scottish Highlands. 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.

Key Responsibilities For This Role Include:

• 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 required for this role include:

• 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 healthy 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 have an extra day off for your birthday. In addition, we also offer our employees the opportunity to purchase up to 5 days of additional annual leave every year.

Benefits:

• Health & Wellbeing
• 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 Friday 4th September 2026, however, please be aware that this role could close early if we receive an overwhelming response. Our Recruitment Team will be attending The UK Careers Fair Event at Eden Court in Inverness on Friday 28th August, please come along and have a chat with the team about the vacancies we have available.

Nordex Values, Diversity & Inclusion: Here at Nordex we interact with a variety of people and cultures. Our values of Integrity, Respect, Colleagueship, and Ownership are the unifying force for all departments and regions around the world, these are the standards we walk by. Our mission is to offer cutting edge, reliable products, and services, generating value for our customers and stakeholders ... All whilst protecting the environment. Join the #TEAMNORDEX and shape the future of energy with us.