BuildTurbines.com: A Resource for Wind Energy Careers

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Buildturbines.com is a resource for people joining the wind energy industry, from technicians to sales and marketing. The website includes career path information with experience and certifications needed as well as salary ranges. With in-depth articles and a training school location map, buildturbines.com is what you need to get started on your new career path. 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! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to this July 4th edition of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Allen Hall, and I'm here with Joel Saxum, and we have some exciting news to share. Joel Saxum: So the exciting news is that we put a new website together. It's called buildturbines.com, and why we did it is to get more exposure to the wind industry. We know we have a technician problem. Allen and I have talked to many people trade shows in person, our wind farm tours that we do, of course. Anybody you talk to in the wind industry, every single company is saying, Hey, everybody's a recruiter. Everybody's a recruiter. We need people. And then you even get down to the the training centers, the community colleges, they're thinking, Hey, we need students. We need students. And just the simple fact that we have a little bit of reach in the wind industry. We said, what can we do about this? So we put together some resources. On a website, it's BuildTurbines. com again and we're going to continue to keep adding to it to make it into a resource for anybody that's interested in getting into the wind industry, whether it's from a technician standpoint. All the way to engineers and back office people, we want to put resources out there for them. Allen Hall: Yeah, and the big push from an industry standpoint obviously is in employment, trying to get people into the positions or having a really difficult time. That is obvious and that even though some of the trade training schools and community colleges, which are doing a lot of the training in the United States, are having a hard time keeping those programs up and running because just the number of people applying for those positions to enter into a trade school is relatively low. And I think it's because a lot of young people don't know that they can have a career and win. That is a long term career. You can make good money. You can raise a family on it. And you don't have to have a college degree to go do it. And we're just trying to raise some awareness about it and we've put out some information on the social media platforms LinkedIn, obviously. We're on the web at buildturbines. com and then we also have an Instagram page, which, the Instagram page looks great so far, Joel. Joel Saxum: Yeah. Technicians are on Instagram, right? People are on Instagram these days. On the Instagram page, we'll be sharing all kinds of resources. We'll be sharing pictures. We plan to, right? This is our goal with this. And we want to share pictures from the field, videos from the field, people doing their job every day. What's actually happening out there. And then get people interested in, get young people interested, get mid career people interested in the wind industry, get vets coming out of their respective branches interested in the wind industry. We sit in an odd space, right? The wind turbines are an oddly visible thing, right? They're huge. You drive down the road, you see these things. So they're visible to the person, but however,