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.

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

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

How’s it going?

I have also choosen renewable energy for the same reason. I hope more people enter this field work for a better earth

whats the book called?

Gas engineer 40k solar engineer 60k

CapitalCCG in Enfield do a fantastic Wind Turbine course

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.

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

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.

To do the majority of the tasks being a regular electrician is sufficient.

NNGGAARRYY 2x2 and usually sail out to the wind farm each day!

HAHAHAHAHAH

Novelty wares off soon

James Binstead Siemens Gamesa

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?

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.

lol same

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.

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.

He's a technician, not an engineer.

He is a hairy arsed mechanic

A level 7 technician

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!

Pee in your mouth

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

1% maybe, sometimes.

Let me clarify. Offshore techs : 1% or less. EHS roles maybe. Manager roles probably. Overal : Rarely.

why not more

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 ?

kirk gardner, you should of gone to spec savers!!!! 😂