Wind Field Specialist - Blades

Job description

3029246
City

Montreal, Shelburne, Orangeville, Toronto, Calgary
Career Level

Experienced
Relocation Assistance

No
Business

GE Renewable Energy
Business Segment

Renewable Energy OnShore Wind
Function

Services
Country/Territory

Canada
U.S. State, China or Canada Provinces

Alberta, Ontario, Quebec
Role Summary/Purpose

The Wind Field Specialist - Blades will be required to travel for blade work through the US and Canada and will be responsible for the internal and external inspections and repair of fiberglass and composite blades, spinners, and nacelles from Category 1 through Category 5.

Essential Responsibilities

As the Wind Field Specialist - Blades, you will:

·  Inspect and photograph internal and external blade damage, document findings, and assemble all associated paperwork as required to be posted for further action by Engineering
·  Perform composite repairs on internal and external blade surfaces, leading and trailing edge repair while following guidelines provided by Engineering with locations both up tower and down tower
·  Utilize blade access platforms, boom trucks, and rope access at heights of 300ft or more
·  Help in all areas of site preparation (i.e. coordination of labor and materials) with minimal supervision
·  Document all work performed using computer based service reporting procedures
·  Communicate site status to engineering, customers, and management
·  Provide maintenance support and preform large component replacement of wind turbine generators
·  Provide wind turbine generator LOTO (Lock Out & Tag Out) support

Qualifications/Requirements

·  High School Diploma / GED
·  Minimum of 2 years of composite repair experience (OR Graduate of a Wind Tech and/or Composite program) ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

·  Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally, with travel up to 100%
·  Must possess and maintain a valid driver’s license, and necessary work documents for international travel
·  Required to handle repetitive weight - 50 lbs
·  Required to climb towers up to 300 feet
·  Ability and willingness to work in all weather conditions, within safety guidelines
·  Ability to meet specific OSHA weight limits 300lbs max
·  Ability to read and understand electrical schematic drawings
·  Ability and willingness to read, interpret technical manuals, procedures, and regulations
·  Must be able to write reports and calculate basic math in all units of measure
·  Ability and willingness to work in range of environments to include but not limited to industrial facilities, manufacturing facilities, and power industry facilities
·  Must be willing to work a flexible shift schedules

Desired Characteristics

·  Ability and willingness to take initiative and work without direct supervision
·  Composite repair experience
·  Blade access platforms experience
·  Strong EHS knowledge and experience
·  SPRAT (Society of Professional Rope Access Technicians) Rope access trained
·  Lightning protection system inspections knowledge
·  Understand technology of wind blade construction and repair

About Us

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.

GE Canada works on things that matter. The best people and the best technologies taking on the toughest challenges. Finding solutions in energy, health and home, transportation and finance. Building, powering, moving and curing the world. Not just imagining. Doing. GE works. This is your chance to become a part of a company internationally known for its reputation as an innovative industry leader that will invest in your success and growth. GE has been recognized as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers for 2017. Join GE Canada and help us make a real difference creating the next generation of products and services that will impact the world for generations to come. For more information visit our website at www.ge.com/ca and follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/GE_Canada and YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/GECanada.

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.