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Wind Turbine Service Technicians
Inspect, diagnose, adjust, or repair wind turbines. Perform maintenance on wind turbine equipment including resolving electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic malfunctions.
What a wind turbine service technician does
Become a wind turbine service technician
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good wind turbine service technician
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
- Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
- Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Typical hourly rate is $42 per hour with a typical salary of $94,200 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $34 and $48 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $40,000 and $99,400 per year.
- 56% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Wind Turbine Service Technician job outlook
- There are 94 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 44 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 1% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 11% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.