Wind Turbine Apprentice

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This is an excellent opportunity to join GE Renewable Energy in an a Modern Apprenticeship Programme within the operations and maintenance organisation. On completion of the programme, successful candidates will have completed a Wind Turbine Maintenance Technician Modern Apprenticeship.

Essential Responsibilities:

This is a full time role, Monday-Friday with occasional weekend work. Our apprentices follow a three to four year training programme, with full time college attendance for the first year, followed by day release college attendance.

The Modern Apprentice will function under the overall guidance of the Apprentice Officer but also on a day to day basis under the control of the Team Leader / Supervisor in charge of the department where the Apprentices’ current training is taking place.

For the duration of the Apprenticeship, you will gain practical experience, develop theoretical knowledge, whilst obtaining formal qualifications, which are recognised and fully transferrable within the wind industry.

You will perform multiple aspects of maintenance and repair to the highest quality. Excellent communication skills are required, along with the ability to accurately follow work process instructions. You will have a keen sense of achievement and take pride in the work you undertake and produce. The ability to work efficiently within a team is essential.

You will:

• Adhere to GE health & safety policy and safe working practices.
• Be happy working at heights and in remote challenging environments.
• Be highly self-motivated, be able to work in a small team and independently.
• Have good problem-solving abilities, able to think on your feet.
• Have basic PC knowledge of networking and communication.
• Be working to targets and deadlines.
• Be undertaking your qualification mostly on windfarms
• Be working with your team in the development and implementation of continuous improvement projects.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• QQI Level 4 Major Award (or equivalent), or at least 3 years trade related experience
• Pass Grade in Maths at level 3
• B2 level of English Language Proficiency
• Able to work at heights
• Pass a medical fitness for work assessment
• Team player, cooperative, interested in further personal and career development
• Confident personality
• High degree of flexibility, highly motivated with the ability to work under pressure
• Prepared to travel throughout Ireland and the UK.
• A full driving licence is essential.
• GE have partnered with Kerry College for the apprenticeship program. 

Job Description

GE is the world’s Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

It is not about your career… it is not about your job title… it is about who you are…. It is about the impact you are going to make on the world. You want to go into uncharted waters… do things that haven’t been done to make yours and someone else's life better. GE has been doing that for decades! We will continue to do so! We are the world’s digital industrial company.

GE Renewable Energy is a 9 billion dollar start-up that brings together one of the broadest product and service portfolios of the renewable energy industry. With 13,000 employees present in more than 40 countries, and headquartered in Paris, GE Renewable Energy is backed-up by the resources of the world’s first digital industrial company. We take the earth’s most abundant resources - the strength of the wind, the force of water, and the heat of the sun, - and put them to work with breakthrough technology that unleashes their true possibilities. Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 370 gigawatts capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

GE is diversity. We aim to employ the worlds’ brightest minds to help us create an unlimited source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles - people like you!

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#LI-Remote - This is a remote position