Job Roles in Wind
Defining Job Levels
Employers in the wind industry use internal frameworks, rather than standardised ones, to describe responsibilities associated with career progression for technicians. Some organisations classify positions using a numbering system (e.g. Wind Technician I, II, III), and others use qualifying language to signify ranked levels of responsibility (e.g. Wind Turbine Apprentice, Competent Technician, Senior Technician) but these frameworks do not often align across organisations. GWO’s occupational map is divided into the following generalised categories to define job levels across organisations:
Entry: Completes tasks under supervision
Intermediate: Completes tasks using a work instruction
Advanced: Uses problem-solving skills to complete tasks creatively, selecting or creating work instructions
Leadership: Manages teams to complete tasks
Identifying Training Needs
Wind turbine technicians receive a combination of in-house and external training throughout their careers. As an international, industry-recognised standard, GWO offers foundational safety and technical training that technicians generally receive in external training facilities. This standardised training can fulfil much of the training needs for new workers entering the industry. But as wind technicians advance in their careers, the demand for more specialised technical training and education grows. As a result, a greater share of higher-level, wind turbine model-specific training happens in-house. Additional technical education for electrical and mechanical systems is necessary for more complex problem solving, which either occurs in-house or within technical vocational institutions.
Training Source Distribution*
∗ Please note that sections of this illustrative chart do not correspond to fixed percentages or data sets.
Global Wind Organisation / www.globalwindsafety.org
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