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Working in partnership to build training courses and programs
that improve your company's operational performance.
technical courses for wind technicians

Custom training course and training program development

Advantages

Tailoring training courses to your company’s specific processes and procedures is crucial because it ensures that the training is directly relevant to the real-world conditions and challenges that your workers will face. Custom training:

  • Gives your employees the skills and knowledge your organisation needs by incorporating your systems, policies and processes rather than a generic approach.
  • Sets your technicians on a path to operational excellence future proofing your organisation through the skill of your workforce
  • Creates a clear pathway for each employee to excel
  • Gives your organisation clarity on where you are now as a precursor to where you want to be operationally

How does it work?

STL USA works alongside your in-house training, safety, and field leadership to build training solutions that meet your organisation’s exact needs. Training solutions allow your organisation to create clear pathways to operational excellence, closing the gap between your workforce capabilities and your organisation’s needs.

Solutions incorporate:

  • Technician and training resource assessments
    • Giving you a clear picture of your capabilities 
  • Course development
    • Bespoke courses built specifically around your organisation’s systems and processes that meet national standards 
  • Program development
    • Creating learning and development pathways for individual technicians or groups of technicians at different experience levels (beginner>advanced)
  • Course delivery and delivery support
    • Training roll-out at your facilities or STL USA training center, either delivered 100% by STL USA or in partnership with in-house resources
  • Feedback and continual improvement
    • Reporting and analysis of testing and ongoing assessments as a test, learn and refine approach to course delivery

Training incorporates industry competency frameworks and applicable global and national standards.

In all cases an assessment is performed on the technician workforce to ascertain their competency levels and help define the right program to build their skills. Not only does this help to reduce your costs it also gives you a clear picture of what your team can, and most importantly can’t do.

Training solutions give your organisation an edge by building specific skills that give you an operational advantage. These programs allow you to tailor training to your organisation’s specific needs, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach found in many common certification and basic training solutions. In short, it allows you to excel and be better than the competition.

5 Star Reviews

– Great facilities and awesome staff of instructors! Convenient and easy to find location for high-quality wind industry safety training. These folks make it fun and engaging.

– Learned a lot here! Polite and helpful staff. Such a comfortable environment to learn! They have a variety of up to date equipment and all instructors are very knowledgeable in their respective trades. If you need GWO (BST, ART, or BTT), this is the place to go!

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Why Pattern Energy choose STL USA to build their in-house wind technician training solutions.

Custom Solutions

Assessments

  • Certification review
  • Skills and competency test
  • Resource review

Course development

  • Requirements and outcomes – understanding learning objectives
  • Course creation – delivery framework/teaching guide, presentations, support material/handouts
  • Testing – dry runs to iron out kinks
  • Delivery
  • Feedback and continual improvement

Program development

  • Competency blueprint for stages – beginner, intermediate, advanced technicians
  • Technician assesment reviews and gap analysis vs. blueprints
  • Pathway development – training modules, timings
  • Delivery

Example skills modules

Wind skills
 
Introduction to Turbine Generators
Oscilloscopes
Failure Analysis
Maintaining Bearings
Precision Measuring Instruments
Hydraulic System Operation
Hydraulic Pumps, Pumping Principles and Accumulators
Pressure Controls
Directional and Flow Controls
Hydraulic Actuators
Fundamentals of Lubrication
Lubrication Maintenance
Introduction to Mechanical Print Reading
Lines Used in Mechanical Print Reading
Dimensions in Mechanical Print Reading
Mechanical Seals
Hand Operated Equipment
Forklifts and Cranes
Principles and Practices of Predictive Maintenance
Vibration Analysis
Lubricant and Trend Analysis
Techniques for Extending Bearing Life
Principles of Reverse Double Dial Alignment
Reverse Double Dial Alignment Procedure
Pressure Measurement
Flow Measurement
Temperature Measurement
Level Measurement
Calibration Principles
Calibrating Pressure and Differential Pressure Instruments
Calibrating Flow Instruments
Calibrating Level Instruments
Pneumatic and Hydraulic Test Devices
Electronic Test Devices
Calibrating Meteorological Instrumentation
 Boroscope

Foundational skills

AC Motor Theory

AC Motor Maintenance
DC Motor Theory
DC Motor Maintenance
Fuses and Circuit Breakers
Limit Switches
Switches, Coils, and Overloads
Troubleshooting Electrical Control Circuits
Inverters: Operation and Maintenance

Multimeters
Ammeters, Meggers and Wheatstone Bridge
Electrical Schematics
Electrical Diagrams
Principles of Operation
Interpreting Ladder Logic
Programmable Controllers for Analog Control
Introduction to Transformers
Transformer operations and maintenance

Hand Tools
Torque and Tensioning
Ladders and Scaffolding

Distributed Control Fundamentals
Maintaining Distributed Control Systems
Electronic Controllers
Calibrating Temperature Instruments
Instruments In Hazardous Environments

Safety 

NFPA 70E low and high voltage

GWO Control of Hazardous Energies

Pad mount switching

BOP Substation

Course Locations

STL USA
Head Office

STL USA
Onsite