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Occupation

Wind turbine technicians

Wind turbine technicians maintain and repair wind turbines by performing diagnostic inspections, analysing faults and performing repair duties. They ensure the wind turbines operate in compliance with regulations and assist the wind engineers in the construction of wind turbines. Wind turbine technicians may also test and install hardware and software components of wind turbines.

Based on analysing 190 job ads this job spends 10.0% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 8 skills asked for, of which 7.2% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £32,531 - £35,000.

Top regions

At the point of upload, job adverts are tagged with a specific location. These locations are standardised to ITL 2 (International Territory Levels) codes. For each ITL region, we divide the proportion of job adverts for an occupation by the proportion for all occupations - this gives us a measure of which regions have proportionally more or less job adverts for each occupation - we call this the "location quotient". We display the ITL regions with the highest location quotients for this occupation.

Highlands and Islands
Southern Scotland
Cumbria
North Eastern Scotland
East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire

Top green skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the green skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for green skills for this occupation.

Offshore constructions and facilities

Found in 20 job ads (19.6%)

Maintain wind turbines

Found in 13 job ads (12.7%)

Renewable energy technologies

Found in 11 job ads (10.8%)

Top skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for skills (green or not) for this occupation.

Hydraulics

Found in 41 job ads (4.0%)

Coordinating activities with others

Found in 27 job ads (2.6%)

Developing educational programmes

Found in 26 job ads (2.5%)

Maintain industrial equipment

Found in 21 job ads (2.0%)

Directing operational activities

Found in 20 job ads (1.9%)

Industries

We extract industry information from job adverts using the way the company is described in the advert. We display the most common industries job adverts in this occupation are linked to.

Manufacture of electric motors, generators and transformers

Found in 19 job ads (19.4%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 20 job ads (20.4%)

Manufacture of engines and turbines, except aircraft, vehicle and cycle engines

Found in 9 job ads (9.2%)

Wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machinery

Found in 8 job ads (8.2%)

Environmental consulting activities

Found in 6 job ads (7.6%)
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About this analysis

This analysis has been compiled by measuring the greenness of online job adverts. You can read more about the methodology here.