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Alstom employment drive

By: Tom Russell 23/09/2015 Alstom

General Turbines Windfarms

Alstom is currently hiring people in the Pays de la Loire Region, mostly operators, to work in the offshore wind turbine plant which was inaugurated in December 2014. Launched in the summer, the campaign will stretch until December 2015.

The employment drive aims to fulfil the contracts awarded to Alstom for the delivery of five Haliade 150-6MW units to the Block Island wind farm and a singular unit for Osterild (Denmark) for EDF EN.

The plant has 73 operator positions to fill, as well as 6 quality inspector, 3 Team Leader and 3 technician positions. “The operators will have a crucial role to play in seeing the projects through, for the assembly line since the Haliade™ 150-6MW wind turbines will be resting upon their shoulders,” explains Pascal Girault, the Director of the Saint-Nazaire industrial plant.“ As for the Quality Inspectors and Team Leaders, they will ensure product quality and team cohesion.”

By December 2015, Alstom’s Saint-Nazaire plant will have a workforce of about 140, including 110 operators. “Through this campaign, Alstom is proud to be upholding the commitment the company made two years ago to create a business channel in France for renewable marine energy and to play a part in creating jobs in the Pays de la Loire Region,” stated Jérôme Pécresse, President of Alstom’s Renewable Power Sector. In 2012, the Group committed to creating 1,000 jobs in France. As a responsible employer, Alstom already employs in the area more than 200 people in the Renewable Marine Energy sector, including 155 in offshore wind power.

To date, Alstom has been awarded three contracts in the field of offshore wind power: a first contract signed in April 2012 for the delivery of 238 Haliade 150 units to EDF Energies Nouvelles, intended for the wind farms in Fécamp, Saint-Nazaire and Courseulles-sur-Mer starting in 2017.

Earlier this year, Alstom signed an agreement with its Belgian partner DEME to deliver and install 66 Alstom offshore Haliade offshore wind turbines intended for the Merkur Offshore windfarm. The agreement also covered a long-term maintenance contract. Alstom secured the Deepwater Wind Block Island contract in 2014.

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