Lead Service Technician
Cape Town, ZA, 8001
Job Purpose
The Senior Lead Service Technician is responsible for functionally leading local Service Technicians onsite, troubleshooting and maintenance of turbine with a high safety standards.
The role collaborates closely with the operational and back office team to ensure a high level of availability in the wind farm which will enable high service standard for our customers and promote future company growth.
Role and Responsibilities
- Ensure compliance with safety related processes required to perform work in a safe way
- Lead the technical team onsite
- Be the point of contact to customers regarding communication on daily activities, and provide them with monthly reporting
- Responsible for maintenance, repair, and operation of wind turbines.
- Troubleshoot and repairs systems and equipment of the turbine; completes preventive maintenance and diagnoses malfunctions.
- Perform preventive maintenance according to maintenance planning schedule
- Ensure high quality reporting of daily activities, snags and maintenance tasks in accordance with internal requirements including booking of materials
- Maintain a high standard of the Service point, tools, service vans and manage the local stock
- Participate in Field training and provide knowledge transfer to colleagues within the team
- Responsible for a field of expertise and ensuring cross-border communication
- Development and implementation of operational training
- Evaluation of defect assessments and development of overarching solutions
- Consolidation and further development of technical tasks
Qualififcations and Education Requirements
Career/ Job Experience
- Vocational training in electrical, mechanical, or mechatronic fields
- GWO certification (Working at Heights, First Aid, Fire Awareness, Manual Handling).
- STTL 1, 2 & 3
- 6+ years experience in the wind industry depending on experience and education
- 2+ years of leadership experience
Required Skills
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- High skill level in planning and organizing resources using Nordex systems
- Able to guide and mentor other lead technicians
- Basic knowledge of business operations and performance metrics
- Ability to work at heights and in remote locations is a must
- Nordex Competencies (Teamwork, Communications …etc)
- Physically capable to fulfill the role
- Strong attention to detail and safety awareness
- Extensive IT competency combined with high experience level in wind turbine IT tools
- Extensive knowledge of wind turbine component troubleshooting
- Extensive knowledge in turbine subcomponents and system diagnostics
- Good English language skills
Detailed Task List
- Guidance for other Lead Technicians in area of responsibility
- Development and implementation of operational trainings
- Consolidation and further development of technical tasks
- Responsible for a field of expertise and ensuring cross-border communication
HSE
- Follow NX and local legislation guidelines, standards and processes before starting your work activities
- Follow safety related processes required to perform work in safe way
- Lead Toolbox talks
- Daily PPE inspection (fit for work)
- Buddy check
- Ensure proper storage of PPE
- Quarantine defective PPE
- Evaluate the next steps for defective PPE
- Report incidents
- Perform internal NX vehicle inspection before use
- Ensure regular external vehicle inspection & maintenance (bring the car to the shop)
- Document weekly vehicle inspection
- Perform tasks after completing work (HSE, check-in-out, etc...)
Functional Leadership
- Functional leadership of technicians
- Evaluate technical competencies during OJD
- Support team to solve complex faults
- Giving work instruction to subcontractors or externals
Work Preparation
- Prepare work in Service Point (NC2 check, load material and tools in car, check documentation etc..)
- Identify materials and tools required to complete work
- Check if material is available in SP for short-term tasks
- Inform customers before starting work
On-Turbine Technical Work
- Set / Maintain Man on Turbine and WTG status
- Perform required job on WTG as per instructions and guides
- Autonomous fault clearance
- Ability to perform maintenance of electrical or mechanical components
- Troubleshooting
- Use of electronic test methods
- Report snags on turbines
- Perform quality inspection in PM phase (Interim operation)
Reporting & Documentation
- Fill maintenance reports
- Fill "as-built" BOM (MC serial number, software versions)
- Booking of material on WO
- Daily reporting of activities and hours in mobile field service application and relevant Nordex systems
- Releasing hours in mobile field service application
- Review and edit downtime in ART
- Review with the team what the fault is and set up a target date
- Update the initial reason for the stopped turbine in DTR tool
- Add / edit intermediate Reason in DTR
Material Management
- Managing material in SP: Goods receipt, shelving, locating materials in SP, inventory, d-part process
- Material selection and procurement
- Send back old parts (OT)
- Perform inventory
- Check the completeness of tool containers before sending them back
- Administrative tasks
YOUR BENEFITS:
In addition to the opportunity to make our world a little more sustainable, we offer you:
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