WIND TURBINE TRAINEE (NATURAL POWER) (ENGINEERING SYSTEMS)

Course description

The course is designed to teach you the key technologies, together with the associated underpinning knowledge relating to how wind turbines function, generate electricity and connect to the grid. The programme also develops your practical engineering skills making you potentially work ready. The course also acts as the first year of a modern apprenticeship should you wish to pursue that route. Incorporated into the course are Performing Engineering Operations (PEO 2) qualifications which combined with the SQA NC element will give two of the three elements required for a Modern Apprenticeship.

This highly successful programme will develop your skills, confidence and awareness of all the inter-related technologies both mechanical and electrical to allow you to develop a career within the Windfarm/Turbine industry. The programme also develops your practical engineering skills making you potentially work ready. The course also acts as the first year of a modern apprenticeship should you wish to pursue that route. This award is designed for school leavers with acceptable qualifications, progressing students from SCQF level 5 or 6 courses, or mature learners who upon completion wish to enter the wind turbine maintenance sector.This is a focused program devised by employers, the Energy Skills Partnership and associated colleges.

Learning outcome

Very good career prospects for employment in the wind farm maintenance sector.

This course allows for progression into the wind farm maintenance sector or if an academic route is your preference onto the HNC in Electrical Engineering.