Bonus: Wind Techs in High Demand

Rosemary Barnes and Allen Hall review the latest employment data from the Airswift Global Energy Talent Index. 31% of survey respondents have been approached about a position with another company SIX TIMES OR MORE in the past year! That indicates a big boom in wind energy for technicians and site managers. However, oil and gas salaries and benefits continue to be a big draw out of wind. The full report is available here - https://www.airswift.com/geti/ Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.com Weather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.com Intelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Uptime 156 Bonus Allen Hall: This is a special bonus episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast, and I'm here with Rosemary Barnes. And Rosemary, the Global Energy Talent Index Report came out and it's a product of Air Swift. Air Swift is a company that finds talent for your company, and they do research into what's happening in renewables in terms of employees and what they're thinking, what they're feeling, what they're getting paid, and who's moving in, who's moving out. Allen Hall: So I, I took a kind of a deep dive in this report. I wanted to talk to you about it today and kind of get your thoughts because a lot of people in wind in particular have a lot to think about over the next. Because wind energy is expanding so quickly, there's a lot of opportunities and that's good, but it also creates a little bit of chaos. Allen Hall: if you're looking for talent. So I'll throw some numbers at you. Okay. In, in terms of wind Farm project managers, what they make, A year in the, in the United States. The, the report actually gives it by country. I, I'm just talking United States here. It doesn't apply everywhere. Of course project managers in the US if they're permanent the average salary is $74,000, a little over $74,000 a year. Allen Hall: If they're contract workers, it's about $525 a day. Wind turbine technicians permanent ones are getting paid about $57,000 a year, or if they're on contract about four, a little over $400 a day. Those are some good numbers. I, I think they've been going up recently. So at Wind Turine Tech making 58,000 thousand dollars is not bad. Allen Hall: I know a lot of technicians that are making a. Hundred plus those guys are really busting their backside to do it. Does. But as part of this, because Sallys are going up and oil and gas is booming, which is roughly in the same area in the United States, there's a lot of moving around. But I, I want to talk to you in specific about what some of the issues were for employees. Allen Hall: The, it does look like in the renewable sector, a lot of people are willing to relocate, right? Or if half of the people surveyed would be willing to relocate, however if you, if you're, most of the people were under the age of 45, but if they have family, they're less likely to move. So it seems like once you establish yourselves somewhere and have a couple of kids that probably get 'em in school, You're not likely to move around. Allen Hall: So it tends to be kind of a younger scene on the technician side. I, I'm guessing because of that, because of all the travel?  Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. The wind turbine techs that I work with. Oh. I don't know. It's a, it's a mix. I guess. There's a lot more really young ones, but you definitely have. to have some experience in there as well. Rosemary Barnes: So I say a mix.