I worked for Semens as a offshore wind turbine techinician form 2008 to 2016. It was a brilliant job very rewarding however the hours were very long,12 hours a day 7 days a week. Siemens had a massive issue with employee retention mainly due to horrendous management, the introduction of an anualised hour contract and zero work life balance. To say I am a lot happier in my current job in a hydro power station is an understatement.
@@Wacooon Problem with weather days was you owed them the hours you were short so you had to come in and pay the hours off by doing extra shifts which was a problem in the winter because you could struggle to get your core monthly hours in. It sounds fair however what you need to understand is they forced you to work overtime for 6-8 months of the year by adjusting your rota without much notice so you couldn't make any plans and held your money until January and deducted the hours you were short before paying out your money. It was very demolishing because it felt you were punished for weather you had no control of after grafting your nuts off all year. Also you were so exhausted due to constantly working ridiculous shifts a weather day was nothing but a chance to recover slightly before your next stint of 10-15 days doing 12-14 hour shifts.
@@WacooonWeather days were a break for you to recover slightly before going again and at the end of the day if you missed say 3 days due to bad weather you owed the company 36 hours in wages. As a result you were constantly working 10-15 days at a time doing a minimum of 12 hour shifts sometimes longer depending on the tides, your rota was constantly changing to make you work more during the good weather months without much notice. You were essentially forced to work ridiculous hours for 6-8 months of the year while the company held onto a big chunk of your wages until January. They then deducted the hours you owed them because of wind days that were out of your control and gave you what remained out of your overtime you were forced to work by them. It was a very demoralising system that made a lot of people walk away from a job.
@@Wacooon Weather days are good but what you need to realise is say you don't work for 3 days you owe the company 36 hours. Do that for 12 months that's 432 hours you owe Siemens. They take that money out of your overtime money that they force you to work because they can change your rota at anytime to make you work more than your monthly hours. One example of a rota is 15 days on, 12 hour shifts ( could be longer) with 5 days off which could be your shift pattern for 6 months of the year. They pay you your time as an overtime rate and bank the remaining 1/2 and at the end of the year they deduct what you owe them in hours from your overtime pot they forced you to work and the net result is paid out to you if you have any cash left. So essentially you get punished for weather days and not the company that's why people were leaving in their droves and staff retention was so bad.
Crap m8 stear well clear if you can. People were leaving because of the annualised hours contract. Essentially you were penalised for weather days because you owed the company the hours you missed because of a weather day. For example you miss 3 days a month for 12 months that's 432 hours you owe the company. They have the ability to force you to work overtime because they can change your shift pattern to a 15 days on and 5 days off you could be doing that for 6 months of the year, that's 270 hours a month for 6 months. They give you your time overtime payment and keep the remaining 1/2. At the end of the year they deduct the hours you owe from the 1/2 they have saved up for you and if you have any cash left they pay it out in January. As a work life balance view point it was awful because you were constantly chasing hours to ensure you were not in their debt each month and ultimately you were not losing money they forced you to work additional hours for.
You make it in yet? I've been working wind as a travel tech (onshore) for 2 years. It's a love hate relationship but I DO love my job sometimes, which many can't say at all. And the money can be really good with the overtime and travel stipend (especially once you get a little xp and switch companies for higher pay)
Terrible idea. Thankful republicans will be in charge again soon and they’ll rip this junk out of the ocean. I know this for a fact. Mark my word! Hahah like wow. The crap people will fall for to actually believe this is even close to a good idea proves that the dems can sell a dog turd on a stick to there slow followers
Thank you Stephen Fisher for sharing your a day in a life as a Wind Turbine Engineer. For all, the people who were thinking to join this industry I recommend you to watch this video first truly inspiring. Remember "Small Actions can make a Big Difference."
It's very inspirational how Stephen describe his job. I've just realized that I take the right degree after all 😍🤭 hope I could make a contribution to the renewable sector in the future. Once again, thank you Stephen and the maker of this video 🤭👍
Currently working at siemens gamesa hull site thinking about going off shore next year deffo a good move for me and better life for my family great video
Applied to my local one. Oil is done in the Northsea. Time to use my qualifications on this job. Money aint the same but the house is paid off and from what I see here looks fun and contained. Which is what I like
This is something I’m definitely interested in. Especially his position as a lead. I’m halfway through the KVCC Turbine Technician Academy with GWO training, ENSA training, and on course for getting my BZEE certification. I’d love to get SPRAT certified just in case, too. It seems like a bit to go through, but working in this field is going to be amazing👇
Omg this was just so amazing and so good on so many levels and arrrrgh just thanks. Also makes me feel really good about working in renewable energy, yay
Thanks for posting this interesting video! I'm writing a book for teens called "Skilled Jobs in Technology,'" and it will have a chapter on wind turbine technicians. Stephen has given some great quotes to use. I'm sure his family and his employer are really proud of him!
Emocionante tu video, fantástico, yo estoy ahora en Wikinger con Global Wind Service Iberdrola etc, estuve trabajando en Bremerhaven en la factoría de Adwen para las Turbinas M-5000, GT1, Borkum West y la mas importante para mi es Alpha Ventus, los Pioneros amigo. Nuestro reto es duro... pero el Viento y el Mar son...Dioses!!! me atrevería a decir. My mane is Electron. Te deseo lo mejor my Friend, I hopefully we will see each other soon and make electrons for humanity. Gerardo Calvo
How do I become a wind tech? I'm 17 and this is the only job that really intrigues me. I am in the US, can you give me some info on this please, everything is appreciated
I went through a paid internship that my first company offered and got paid crap money to get my foot in the door. I’m 4 years in now and I made 90,000 this year. You grow fast if you put in the work. Good companies to go for are vestas and nextera energy. Vestas offers the paid internship and I switched to nextera for the pay bump…. Good luck buddy
Turbines aren’t exactly made with workers in mind. Sadly you likely wouldn’t have enough time to react or properly hook up to a parachute. You’d most likely suffocate from lack of oxygen and toxic fume inhalation very quickly.
Thanks for uploading very informative video Stephen. My son who is 18 he done heating and gas plumbing for year in a college he is no interest in Renwable energy. But same college also does wind Turbine course. Of course college is free of charge as of age but private are charging between £6 to 10 k..
@@liamwoolston5507 there would have to be something dropped below them to even dive to break the tensions of the water or they would end up with a broken neck
@@atom6922 I’m not talking about head first diving. If you crossed your legs at the ankles you would have some chance of survival.. the record for diving this way is over 200ft on the Golden Gate Bridge.. I’m not saying you would survive but depending on how you landed you would have somewhat a chance at surviving.
Been doing this for 20 years. and i can say that this job is not for everyone, and its extreamly tough on all joints, so dont expect a good retiring my knees are fucked at 40 years old
A 3.6mw isn't a big one, I worked on these for years (level 7). By the time i was medically retired I was not working with Siemens anymore and was installing 8.8mw turbines for Vestas. I can no longer work in the industry due to a horrific accident which was not my fault. Sh*t happens in heavy industry and sometimes people get crippled and even worse die. Apart from that it was fine.
The biggest demand now is for copper and metallurgical coal plus cement (Cement is manufactured through a closely controlled chemical combination of calcium, silicon, aluminum, iron and other ingredients.) All these materials are needed to to produce a wind turbine farm 240,000 tons of C02 for just one wind turbine which it last about 20 year some get 25 years then landfill. One turbine need 32,000 tons of cement (on ton cement one ton of C02) 12,000 of rebar steel need a lot of metallurgical coal. To decommission a wind turbine a lot of land fill coal and propeller blades most can't be recycled unless made of wood. Solar panel are worse lead zinc acids silicon itself destroys your lungs make coal or LNG look good
Getting offered an interview to become a windfarm technician...I'm already a cnc engineer and torn between what would be a better career...staying in cnc industry or starting on the wind farms....does anyone have any advice ?
Guy, do the turbines because you'll get sick of it after 3 years anyway and you can just scoot back to the cnc business. This way you get both and you'll never sit and wonder if you made the wrong choice.
There are turbines Everywhere. Texas, Iowa are you best bets as they have the most consistent wind and building them there is fairly easy from a permit perspective which means they will still have growth maybe. Otherwise, you hope that the Wyoming farm goes in, offshore in the NE, or maybe on Lake Michigan. Most service jobs are long since taken at the inception of the turbine farm project to begin with.
Is 33 too late to make a career change into this type of industry. I’m currently a tree surgeon wanting a career change and I’m very interested in this field of work.
Age is not really the barrier. Its more about if you can handle the lifestyle or not and if you are okay with the salary and can get along with all kinds of people as you will work eat and sleep with the same folk for long periods at a time away from home.
Y'all piss in a bucket? Is that a European thing? Lol. In my experience, depending on which platform we're working with, we either piss off the side, piss thru a grate or piss out the chain hoist hatch. Guys usually climb down to shit but I've heard of guys doing the dirty business up tower in a bag
I used to piss over the side and if I needed a shit it would be done in a bin bag filled with dirty rags after wiping my arse that would be thrown over the side. No one calls over the boat to climb down.
could so make if need how close the turbine by to great wind. if need. this are at very big winds bouilt how resist in stop mode. can in horizontal form to bouild so thing than water turbine smaller generator. or with gearbox. and if wind to great draw itself in rocks. close. than wind speedmesser. horizontal not have tower on mountaines bouilt. but in each pushaeble form can to work.
all these university grads getting some the highest paid jobs in the world. would be nice of not spending 100k on an education still gave you same opportunities as these companys give you grads
I worked for Semens as a offshore wind turbine techinician form 2008 to 2016. It was a brilliant job very rewarding however the hours were very long,12 hours a day 7 days a week. Siemens had a massive issue with employee retention mainly due to horrendous management, the introduction of an anualised hour contract and zero work life balance. To say I am a lot happier in my current job in a hydro power station is an understatement.
How bad was the work life balance ? from what ive heard there are a lot of days off on the boat due to weather
@@Wacooon Problem with weather days was you owed them the hours you were short so you had to come in and pay the hours off by doing extra shifts which was a problem in the winter because you could struggle to get your core monthly hours in. It sounds fair however what you need to understand is they forced you to work overtime for 6-8 months of the year by adjusting your rota without much notice so you couldn't make any plans and held your money until January and deducted the hours you were short before paying out your money. It was very demolishing because it felt you were punished for weather you had no control of after grafting your nuts off all year. Also you were so exhausted due to constantly working ridiculous shifts a weather day was nothing but a chance to recover slightly before your next stint of 10-15 days doing 12-14 hour shifts.
@@WacooonWeather days were a break for you to recover slightly before going again and at the end of the day if you missed say 3 days due to bad weather you owed the company 36 hours in wages. As a result you were constantly working 10-15 days at a time doing a minimum of 12 hour shifts sometimes longer depending on the tides, your rota was constantly changing to make you work more during the good weather months without much notice. You were essentially forced to work ridiculous hours for 6-8 months of the year while the company held onto a big chunk of your wages until January. They then deducted the hours you owed them because of wind days that were out of your control and gave you what remained out of your overtime you were forced to work by them. It was a very demoralising system that made a lot of people walk away from a job.
@@Wacooon Weather days are good but what you need to realise is say you don't work for 3 days you owe the company 36 hours. Do that for 12 months that's 432 hours you owe Siemens. They take that money out of your overtime money that they force you to work because they can change your rota at anytime to make you work more than your monthly hours. One example of a rota is 15 days on, 12 hour shifts ( could be longer) with 5 days off which could be your shift pattern for 6 months of the year. They pay you your time as an overtime rate and bank the remaining 1/2 and at the end of the year they deduct what you owe them in hours from your overtime pot they forced you to work and the net result is paid out to you if you have any cash left. So essentially you get punished for weather days and not the company that's why people were leaving in their droves and staff retention was so bad.
Crap m8 stear well clear if you can. People were leaving because of the annualised hours contract. Essentially you were penalised for weather days because you owed the company the hours you missed because of a weather day. For example you miss 3 days a month for 12 months that's 432 hours you owe the company. They have the ability to force you to work overtime because they can change your shift pattern to a 15 days on and 5 days off you could be doing that for 6 months of the year, that's 270 hours a month for 6 months. They give you your time overtime payment and keep the remaining 1/2. At the end of the year they deduct the hours you owe from the 1/2 they have saved up for you and if you have any cash left they pay it out in January. As a work life balance view point it was awful because you were constantly chasing hours to ensure you were not in their debt each month and ultimately you were not losing money they forced you to work additional hours for.
Lad you are legend! Passion, strength and family!
My dream job , I am working on it . Amen
Im lucky to be starting this training this week coming give me luck yall
You make it in yet? I've been working wind as a travel tech (onshore) for 2 years. It's a love hate relationship but I DO love my job sometimes, which many can't say at all. And the money can be really good with the overtime and travel stipend (especially once you get a little xp and switch companies for higher pay)
Scott james. What its to work as flying tech? I applied also, should get an answer next week. Im hopping the best off course. And where do you work?
Which type of difficulty a freshers candidate faces in this field
Terrible idea.
Thankful republicans will be in charge again soon and they’ll rip this junk out of the ocean. I know this for a fact. Mark my word! Hahah like wow. The crap people will fall for to actually believe this is even close to a good idea proves that the dems can sell a dog turd on a stick to there slow followers
Thank you Stephen Fisher for sharing your a day in a life as a Wind Turbine Engineer. For all, the people who were thinking to join this industry I recommend you to watch this video first truly inspiring. Remember "Small Actions can make a Big Difference."
I couldn't imagine building this! Wow. Repair and maintenance while traveling is what I am trying to do.
Great video. Really enjoyed it!
It's very inspirational how Stephen describe his job. I've just realized that I take the right degree after all 😍🤭 hope I could make a contribution to the renewable sector in the future. Once again, thank you Stephen and the maker of this video 🤭👍
I have also choosen renewable energy for the same reason. I hope more people enter this field work for a better earth
Currently working at siemens gamesa hull site thinking about going off shore next year deffo a good move for me and better life for my family great video
Applied to my local one. Oil is done in the Northsea. Time to use my qualifications on this job. Money aint the same but the house is paid off and from what I see here looks fun and contained. Which is what I like
This is something I’m definitely interested in. Especially his position as a lead. I’m halfway through the KVCC Turbine Technician Academy with GWO training, ENSA training, and on course for getting my BZEE certification. I’d love to get SPRAT certified just in case, too. It seems like a bit to go through, but working in this field is going to be amazing👇
How’s it going?
Thank you so much for this!
Very Cool! Thanks!
Omg this was just so amazing and so good on so many levels and arrrrgh just thanks. Also makes me feel really good about working in renewable energy, yay
Hands-on and\drenaline filled, making a difference to the world. 😍 This has made it more interesting for future choices in careers.
This is literally my dream job. Getting to go offshore with your buddies as an engineer, while saving the planet.
Thanks for posting this interesting video! I'm writing a book for teens called "Skilled Jobs in Technology,'" and it will have a chapter on wind turbine technicians. Stephen has given some great quotes to use. I'm sure his family and his employer are really proud of him!
whats the book called?
Hello from Taiwan !
I am just about looking for a job on this market.
Great information. Thanks for sharing.
Thankyou
Great, respect.
Emocionante tu video, fantástico, yo estoy ahora en Wikinger con Global Wind Service Iberdrola etc, estuve trabajando en Bremerhaven en la factoría de Adwen para las Turbinas M-5000, GT1, Borkum West y la mas importante para mi es Alpha Ventus, los Pioneros amigo. Nuestro reto es duro... pero el Viento y el Mar son...Dioses!!! me atrevería a decir. My mane is Electron.
Te deseo lo mejor my Friend, I hopefully we will see each other soon and make electrons for humanity.
Gerardo Calvo
Epic view
Just Watched This for science Class Cery Inspiring 10/10
Do my other wind techs in the comment section realize how clean this guy is, he ain’t climbing enough lol
How do I become a wind tech? I'm 17 and this is the only job that really intrigues me. I am in the US, can you give me some info on this please, everything is appreciated
I went through a paid internship that my first company offered and got paid crap money to get my foot in the door. I’m 4 years in now and I made 90,000 this year. You grow fast if you put in the work. Good companies to go for are vestas and nextera energy. Vestas offers the paid internship and I switched to nextera for the pay bump…. Good luck buddy
Amazing stuff. Are the ladders on the way up to the first platform night illuminated? Seems a little risky!
My dream job currently going through my EDF training
The video of the two fellas on top of the burning turbine was heart breaking. Why don’t they give you BASE jumping parachutes 🪂
Turbines aren’t exactly made with workers in mind. Sadly you likely wouldn’t have enough time to react or properly hook up to a parachute. You’d most likely suffocate from lack of oxygen and toxic fume inhalation very quickly.
Thanks for uploading very informative video Stephen.
My son who is 18 he done heating and gas plumbing for year in a college he is no interest in Renwable energy.
But same college also does wind Turbine course.
Of course college is free of charge as of age but private are charging between £6 to 10 k..
Gas engineer 40k solar engineer 60k
CapitalCCG in Enfield do a fantastic Wind Turbine course
I am currently back to study Electrical Power engineering and hoping to get in to this field.
To do the majority of the tasks being a regular electrician is sufficient.
I gonna be the next. I've been talking from Brazil and day I will work abroad.
See you guy.....
Hi! Is it okay if I use some of this material for an assignment in school? I will only use 5 sec.
How often is it sunny and that calm 20miles offshure?
Wow... How loud are those things?
for people who are afraid of heights it seems they have more confidence above water even though at that height it would be like hitting pavement
Not if you can dive
@@liamwoolston5507 there would have to be something dropped below them to even dive to break the tensions of the water or they would end up with a broken neck
@@atom6922 I’m not talking about head first diving. If you crossed your legs at the ankles you would have some chance of survival.. the record for diving this way is over 200ft on the Golden Gate Bridge.. I’m not saying you would survive but depending on how you landed you would have somewhat a chance at surviving.
How can we get in to this type of work?
for reference, a 100 meters building is 27 storey or more
Is this like an offshore rotation 2X2 or 3X3? What is the accommodation situation in this work?
NNGGAARRYY 2x2 and usually sail out to the wind farm each day!
No restrooms on sea wind turbines? Good thing my airport job has restrooms esp. when I eat hella food on my lunch break lol.
DH Mountain biker, same here.
Do you happen to work for tenet?
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Been doing this for 20 years. and i can say that this job is not for everyone, and its extreamly tough on all joints, so dont expect a good retiring my knees are fucked at 40 years old
I would like to be an intern for a month there!!! It definitely would be a great experience :)
Novelty wares off soon
Hope I find a job in this domain
climbing back down for a slash as if mate lol
How much do general laborer make building these towers
I want to do this
A 3.6mw isn't a big one, I worked on these for years (level 7). By the time i was medically retired I was not working with Siemens anymore and was installing 8.8mw turbines for Vestas. I can no longer work in the industry due to a horrific accident which was not my fault. Sh*t happens in heavy industry and sometimes people get crippled and even worse die. Apart from that it was fine.
The biggest demand now is for copper and metallurgical coal plus cement (Cement is manufactured through a closely controlled chemical combination of calcium, silicon, aluminum, iron and other ingredients.) All these materials are needed to to produce a wind turbine farm 240,000 tons of C02 for just one wind turbine which it last about 20 year some get 25 years then landfill. One turbine need 32,000 tons of cement (on ton cement one ton of C02) 12,000 of rebar steel need a lot of metallurgical coal. To decommission a wind turbine a lot of land fill coal and propeller blades most can't be recycled unless made of wood. Solar panel are worse lead zinc acids silicon itself destroys your lungs make coal or LNG look good
HAHAHAHAHAH
Getting offered an interview to become a windfarm technician...I'm already a cnc engineer and torn between what would be a better career...staying in cnc industry or starting on the wind farms....does anyone have any advice ?
Guy, do the turbines because you'll get sick of it after 3 years anyway and you can just scoot back to the cnc business. This way you get both and you'll never sit and wonder if you made the wrong choice.
What did you do in the end?
Just here for school Homework.
lol same
Im studying Turbines in general and live in the USA. Any suggestions?
exiled68, wait for Ørsted to get started in the states and get a job with them. Best thing i ever did!
There are turbines Everywhere. Texas, Iowa are you best bets as they have the most consistent wind and building them there is fairly easy from a permit perspective which means they will still have growth maybe. Otherwise, you hope that the Wyoming farm goes in, offshore in the NE, or maybe on Lake Michigan. Most service jobs are long since taken at the inception of the turbine farm project to begin with.
Can anyone recommend any good companies that offer apprenticeships in this?
James Binstead Siemens Gamesa
Is 33 too late to make a career change into this type of industry. I’m currently a tree surgeon wanting a career change and I’m very interested in this field of work.
Age is not really the barrier. Its more about if you can handle the lifestyle or not and if you are okay with the salary and can get along with all kinds of people as you will work eat and sleep with the same folk for long periods at a time away from home.
i hope i would be so
I’ll be back in a few years to tell you how it goes
my dream job
mine too :D
all you need is a associates degree in renewable energy to be a wind turbine tech.
Hopefully I will be doing something like this I love it my dream job
FUBGIES, you dont need that. I work with the guy in the video and we joined Dong with just a good background in technical work and good school grades!
Maaaaaannn thats what i want to do once i finished my carrear
The toilet thing was just for the camera. You don't climb anywhere to use the toilet, you pee into a bag lined in a bucket.
so why lie
Y'all piss in a bucket? Is that a European thing? Lol. In my experience, depending on which platform we're working with, we either piss off the side, piss thru a grate or piss out the chain hoist hatch. Guys usually climb down to shit but I've heard of guys doing the dirty business up tower in a bag
@@rickpederson1219 I think the guy in the video was talking about shitting.. we usually climb down to do that.
I used to piss over the side and if I needed a shit it would be done in a bin bag filled with dirty rags after wiping my arse that would be thrown over the side. No one calls over the boat to climb down.
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what if its storming?
what kind of engineer is he ?
He's a technician, not an engineer.
He is a hairy arsed mechanic
A level 7 technician
What is your salary??
Inplix has the best handbooks and ready instructions. You can learn much from them and make it yourself.
I've been studying this topic and discovered a great resource at Ewans energy roadmap (check it out on google)
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He says that he is actually tehnician,not engie.
The background music is tooo damn LOUD! Think earbuds!
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Who else is watching this for year 8 science
What do you do if you have to pee while you're up there?
Pee in your mouth
tea time
could so make if need how close the turbine by to great wind. if need. this are at very big winds bouilt how resist in stop mode.
can in horizontal form to bouild so thing than water turbine smaller generator. or with gearbox. and if wind to great draw itself in rocks. close. than wind speedmesser. horizontal not have tower on mountaines bouilt. but in each pushaeble form can to work.
I work on these... siemens 3.6mw, nothing like a car. A car doesnt need wind to work
Could you test my creation, thanks! Type circuit solver on the playstore!
Good luck because you wouldn't wanna be in a winturbine failure ;-;
you can do it yourself ,just go to inplix page and learn how to make it.
Climbing up 100 meters not shown.You will do this for a year and start dreaming down hill bike ride.J
LIE: He is NOT an engineer. He is a maintenance technician. A required job to be sure. Stop the lies.
Nice gatekeeping
@@simbobcrafts4843 I cleaned a toilet yesterday... I'm a sanitation engineer... well Shit aren't I da Shit!
Truth.
In a wind tech and just noticed how clean his work gear is, he must not be climbing all that much.
He doesn't clean it he fixes it difference between a cleaner and a plumbing engineer@@w8stral
Are there any women in this field?
1% maybe, sometimes.
Let me clarify. Offshore techs : 1% or less. EHS roles maybe. Manager roles probably. Overal : Rarely.
why not more
all these university grads getting some the highest paid jobs in the world. would be nice of not spending 100k on an education still gave you same opportunities as these companys give you grads
Im a normal electrician. working on these... no fancy education. ;)
Awsome how much do you make per year
@@zachariahmagallan5738 between 80 and 140k per year
@@whoispriest do you know what the laborers make
@@zachariahmagallan5738 ?
The view sucks!
kirk gardner, you should of gone to spec savers!!!! 😂
Americans are definitely not going to be doing this kind of work.
Seeing all those turbines and blades is a really ugly sight.