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Going With the Wind
… American Wind Energy Association ..... the Spanish wind energy giant, that were building wind farms in the area ..... erecting wind turbines , technicians ..... work for wind turbine manufacturers ..... on three wind farms in three Oregon ..... Hanging on to wind farm technicians ..... Competing for wind energy jobs shook …
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Manufacturing Firms Scour Schools, Military for Future Workforce
… Veterans often are recruited for field-service technician positions, where they do things such as servicing and maintaining wind turbines . The technicians work alone or in two-person teams, and must be able to operate independently, solve problems and work …
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Training That Starts Before the Job Begins
… blown training Like Booz Allen Hamilton, Vestas’ business is booming. The company says it has installed nearly 40,000 wind turbines worldwide, including 10,000 in the United States. In a recent financial statement, Vestas’ executives predicted …
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Can Chicago's Factories Hold the Line on Jobs
… markets. S&C, which employs about 1,700 at its Rogers Park factory, recently began marketing voltage components for wind turbines and back-up power sources to protect computer databases. "The things that help us are our diversity in customers, diversity …
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Green Recruiting Helps Bring in Top Talent
… estimate how many pounds they keep out of the landfill. On its Web site, GE does just that, touting that the company’s wind turbines "prevent as much as 18.3 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, an amount roughly equal to keeping over 3 million …
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Hes Sold on Green Technology
… Johnson Controls products, such as automation or cooling systems, but often it means selling other companies’ products— wind turbines , for instance—then installing and managing them. Johnson Controls says it plans to hire 50,000 people worldwide in …
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Congress Determines ‘Green Job’ Definition; Stimulus Seeks to Boost Sector
… conference negotiations because she said it would help her state recover. Stabenow illustrates her point by noting that a wind turbine contains about 1,200 parts. Building them would produce work for tool and die makers and machine shops that have been hit …
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Hes LEEDing the Way
… December. For three semesters, he took two evening classes a week, writing weekly essays and spending some Saturdays visiting wind farms and buildings renovated or constructed using U.S. Green Building Council standards. Courses covered energy efficiency …
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Tech Hunt
Hiring wind energy technicians is a relatively new occurrence ..... Columbia Gorge Community College’s wind energy technician training program. The utility ..... training and career development. Wind energy technician jobs might be hot now …
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Solar Follows Suit
The public-private partnerships that helped speed up wind energy technician training are being adopted by other Pacific Northwest sustainable energy companies, most notably by solar panel manufacturers …
