Wind Turbine Tech. - Wind Turbine Technician EDF Employee Review

3.0
Sep 24, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great Benefits, employee perks (occasional free lunches), matched 401K, physically active job. Somewhat responsive managers.

Cons

Reactive company policy on safety. Lower and middle management is constantly run ragged. Loads of OT during maintenance cycles (can be good or bad). Pathetic formalized training. Employee training is based on learning from your coworkers. Pay is below industry standard. Feels like working at the jiffy lube of the wind turbine industry.

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Cons

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Pros

Real opportunities to grow into more technical roles (Control Center Operator → Systems Engineer paths exist and aren't just on paper). You get hands-on experience with industrial systems most people only read about — OSI PI, SCADA, OMS integrations, cloud telemetry — which is hard to get elsewhere. Management generally supports continued education and certifications.

Cons

Decisions move slowly. Getting tooling, software, or process changes approved often involves multiple layers, including approvals that flow up to the French parent company. Procurement and IT requests can take weeks for things that would take a day at a smaller company. Some legacy systems and processes haven't been modernized — you'll find yourself working around quirks instead of fixing them.

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