Skills for Offshore Wind
Here you will find a wealth of information about the type of skills, courses and training that is available for companies and their staff members. Whither you are a company in offshore wind looking for information about how to upskill your workforce or if you are transitioning from another sector and want to re-train your existing staff as part of a market entry strategy, this is the place to start.
Our aim with Skills for Offshore Wind is to guide you to the right source of information or assistance that will enable you to make an informed choice about your company workforce development.
Our portal site is designed to lead companies onto the right path to get the information and assistance you need and signpost it to you as quickly as possible.
What I need......
Choose the pathway below based on what you looking for from the portal site to get the right information tailored to your own needs
Pathway for those companies already in the offshore wind industry looking to find options for upskilling their existing workforce
This path is for companies transitioning to offshore wind from other sectors.
Pathway for companies looking to explore the various types of apprenticeships applicable to offshore wind
Helping you join our industry
Working in Scotland
If you currently live and work outside of Scotland then we can also support you to find a route into the industry though Talent Scotland. On their site you can also find information about the various options for obtaining a visa.
Jobs in the Wind Sector
Scotland's wind sector is expanding rapidly. In this next decade we aim to deliver 40GW of offshore wind and a further 10GW of onshore wind. We need another 30,000 people to deliver these huge increases in capacity. Visit the Indeed web page below for a list of jobs in the wind sector in Scotland right now.
How can we help?
This Skills for Offshore Wind portal site aims to help signpost candidates looking to enter the industry and companies looking for training to upskill their staff or also looking to enter this market in Scotland. It will provide help for private sector and public sector training providers looking for support and will aim to assist all levels of skills provision in Scotland that could be applied to the offshore wind industry.
While the site is currently under construction we can only provide certain elements of such support but the aim is to grow this resource to encompass all types of support, training and skills provision available in Scotland through working with our delivery partners, such as ESP and Skills Development Scotland, and members of the Scottish industry clusters.