Company: Kelly Services Supporting GE Vernova

Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm and Monday - Friday, 2 pm - 11 pm

Location: 1 River Road, Schenectady NY 12345

Position: Wind Technical Lab Assistant

Pay Rate: $34.42/hr

Role Summary/Purpose

The Wind Technical Assistant is to support the team of Technical Instructors conducting classes based at the Renewable Energy Learning Center (RELC) in Niskayuna, NY. The purpose of the role is providing training support in the lab to increase safety, maintain and improve the tools and equipment.

Essential Responsibilities

• Support and assure lab safety rules are always maintained. Drive site safety culture by modeling behaviors associated with the highest level of EHS best practices

• Must be able to work on a team or individually, to assist in repairs of several models of GE Wind Turbines. This includes performing component replacements and troubleshooting mechanical and or electrical faults.

• Coordinate crews of students, oversee contractors, understand, and demonstrate proper use of lab tools and equipment and logistics required to perform services and maintenance activities.

• Support instructors with lab exercises to include gen alignment, torquing and other maintenance tasks.

• Coordinate and secure on-site installation of new lab systems and/or equipment. Perform ongoing preventive maintenance, repair and calibration after installation.

• Perform administrative functions; such as ordering and shipping tooling, maintaining tooling inventory, ordering parts and ensuring items requiring periodic calibration or servicing are maintained

• Organize, clean, and sanitize the tools and equipment in the lab after each class.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Associate degree in a technical field or 1 year of wind field experience or 4 years military experience in an electrical/mechanical field.

• Ability and willingness to operate heavy equipment

• Ability and willingness to climb wind turbines and work at heights

• Ability and willingness to possess and maintain a valid driver's license

• Ability and willingness to work swing shift

Desired Characteristics

• Familiarity with and ability to operate basic hand tools

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical, Electrical, Mechanical or Electronics field from an accredited college or university.

• Ability to read and understand electrical schematic drawings.

• Technical Certification in Wind Energy or Electrical / Electronic field.

• Mechanical knowledge, electrical aptitude and ability to read schematics

• Ability and willingness to take initiative, and work without direct supervision.

• Ability and willingness to read, interpret technical manuals, procedures, and regulations.

• Electrical, mechanical, and/or hydraulic experience.

• Experience using hydraulic power tools.

• Experience with heavy equipment required for facility maintenance with a working knowledge of crane and rigging requirements.

• Experience with the 1.x turbine platform

• Experience with the 2.x turbine platform

• Wind farm site experience

• Understanding of the electric utility industry

• English fluency and proficient in additional languages, particularly with technical explanations

• Strong computer skills including all MS Office 365 products, MS Teams, photo and video editing, audio and video equipment usage.

About Our Client :

GE (NYSE:GE) drives the world forward by tackling its biggest challenges. By combining world-class engineering with software and analytics, GE helps the world work more efficiently, reliably, and safely. GE people are global, diverse and dedicated, operating with the highest integrity and passion to fulfill GE’s mission and deliver for our customers. www.ge.com

GE Renewable Energy harnesses the earth’s most abundant resources – the strength of the wind, the heat of the sun and the force of water; delivering green electrons to power the world’s biggest economies and the most remote communities.

With an innovative spirit and an entrepreneurial mindset, we engineer energy products, grid solutions and digital services that create industry-leading value for our customers around the world.

The GE RELC (Renewables Energy Learning Center) is a world class training and professional development facility that leverages collaboration with our expert teams throughout GE Renewables to advance efficiencies, safety, and quality through increasing human productivity. With leading-edge training capabilities and coaching expertise, we produce highly desired technical employees to GE, contractors and our customers.

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