Block Island Wind Technician (Hybrid | CTV Access | Home Daily)

Why join?

Join us in this role where you’ll support operations and maintenance at Block Island Wind Farm. This position combines offshore fieldwork, onshore support activities, and work-from-home administrative responsibilities, offering a balanced and sustainable work structure. You’ll be part of the Operations team responsible for maintaining the wind turbine: annual services, retrofits, corrective maintenance, and troubleshooting.

This is a hybrid position, including: Offshore work accessing turbines daily via Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV). June- October; Onshore responsibilities such as warehouse coordination, planning, staging, and training.; Work-from-home tasks including reporting, documentation, remote troubleshooting support, planning, and safety preparation. During offshore days, you’ll work 12-hour shifts and return home each evening via CTV transfer typically. As a team, we work collectively to ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of all wind turbine generators (WTGs). Safety is our highest priority, and we operate with professionalism, accountability, and a strong team mindset.

You’ll play an important role in:

• performing scheduled preventative and corrective maintenance on wind turbines.
• overseeing service providers and driving strong safety culture and organizing safety drills.
• supporting balance of plant assets including foundations, offshore substation interfaces, and transmission systems.
• completing offshore inspections and fault response activities and supporting onshore logistics, spare parts staging, tool inspections, and inventory management.
• completing work-from-home responsibilities including documentation, reporting, planning, root cause analysis support, and safety preparation.
• identifying opportunities for operational improvements and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives and executing all duties in accordance with rigorous safety standards and established processes.

To succeed in the role, you:

• have at least two years of experience servicing, repairing, or troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, electromechanical, or hydraulic equipment.
  • wind turbine maintenance experience is preferred
• take a proactive, organized, and safety-first approach to your work.
• are comfortable working offshore and at heights.
• can work effectively both independently (remote work) and as part of a team offshore.
• are fluent in reading, writing, and speaking English.
• meet physical and medical requirements for GWO certification, including:
  • Working at Heights
  • Sea Survival
  • First Aid & CPR
  • HUET (if required)

Even if your background doesn’t perfectly match every qualification, we encourage you to apply if you believe your skills and experience would add value to the team. We will train the right candidate that shows strong leadership values and the right attitude.

Shape the future of offshore wind in Rhode Island

Join a pioneering offshore wind facility while benefiting from a hybrid work structure that supports work-life balance and daily return home.

Shape the future with us

Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate. As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accommodation@orsted.com. Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position

Position salary range:

The salary range for this position is 35.69

Our salary ranges are based on position level and reflect the cost of labor across multiple U.S geographic markets. Individual pay with the range is determined by work location and additional factors, including job related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can provide more details about the applicable salary range during the hiring process.

Variable Compensation: Our total rewards package may include discretionary short-term and long-term incentive opportunities based on your pay band and performance. These may be changed or suspended based on the sole discretion of the company

Our benefits package: For this position for employees who meet eligibility requirements are: fully paid premium for family insurance coverage for health, life, dental, and visions; flexible spending accounts; health savings accounts; short- and long-term disability insurance; an Employee Assistance Program; 18 weeks or hourly equivalent of parental leave with an additional short-term disability benefit of 6-8 weeks or hourly equivalent for the birthing parent; a 401(k) retirement savings plan with up to 5% employer match; commuting benefits; 7 paid sick days per year; 20 paid time off days; 13 annual paid holidays; 16 hours of volunteer time-off; and a monthly book benefit from Amazon of up to USD 25.

Vacancy details:

Application deadline:May 11, 2026

Career track: Subject Expert

Career band: 13

If you have any questions about the vacancy, please contact the talent acquisition partner Laura Vanelli on (+1) 8572916595.

This position will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening; further details will be given at offer stage.