Travelling Wind Technician - Mechanical

Job Description Summary

Reporting to the Service Director, the Travelling Wind Farm Service Technician provides critical operational support across our national fleet. This role is pivotal in maintaining site performance, offering on-site technical leadership, and driving rapid troubleshooting and support of up tower repairs on mechanical assets. You will serve as a support interface between site management, internal engineering teams, and our clients to ensure maximum turbine availability and fleet optimization. This role will require you to travel frequently to our different wind farm sites.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Interpret the requirements of GEV manuals, specifications, bulletins and complete assigned tasks in accordance with GEV work instructions.
• Perform and ensure the proper maintenance and fault finding of assets.
• Ensure all work is performed in accordance with the above documents and to the organisation's SWMS, LOTO, associated EHS & QA/QC policies/procedures.
• Drive a positive reporting culture by identifying errors, violations, incidents or problems immediately using GEV systems.
• Supervise mechanical installation/maintenance work when required.
• Maintain reports using GEV's various software management tools and databases.
• Report errors, violations, incidents or problems immediately using GEV reporting systems.
• Submit enquiries to Engineering to ensure technical issues are resolved.
• Work closely with and answer questions from Management, Engineering, Sourcing and Service Teams as required.
• Uphold and maintain Quality Control, by making conformance or non-conformance decisions upon completion of tasks and inspections.
• Form part of an on-call roster to work weekends and nights if required or as directed by management.
• Champion Safety by being familiar with and following all EHS policies, and procedures applicable to the job and cooperating with GEV investigations and EHS audits.

• As a minimum, hold a current: Mechanical Trade Certificate, Construction Industry White Card and Current First Aid/CPR.
• Demonstrate previous experience in the Onshore Wind sector or similar heavy industry (Five years Minimum) would be highly regarded.
• Competent in fault finding mechanical and hydraulic equipment.
• Trained to an intermediate level in computer skills.
• Must have the ability to climb wind turbines and complete physically demanding tasks at heights.
• Experience working in remote locations and autonomously.
• Must be willing to travel >65% of the year.

• HRWL including Dogging, Rigging (Advanced), Forklift, EWP.
• CSE
• GWO Advanced