Skills for Offshore Wind Portal site (SkillOW)

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. Whether 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 your pathway below

Pathway for companies already in the offshore wind industry looking to find options for upskilling their existing workforce

Upskilling Pathway

This path is for companies transitioning to offshore wind from other sectors such as oil and gas.

Transition Pathway

Information and location of Global Wind Organisation (GWO) accredited training facilities in Scotland.

GWO Training Pathway

Pathway for companies looking to explore the various types of apprenticeships applicable to offshore wind

Apprenticeships Pathway

How we can help

This Skills for Offshore Wind section of our site aims to help signpost companies looking for offshore wind related training as well as assist those looking to enter the industry and wishing to up-skill their staff. It will also aim to provide help for private sector and public sector training providers looking for assistance along with supporting 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 (SDS), along with members of the Scottish industry clusters.

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 Scotland's Migration Service.
Our Scotland.org portal site has a wealth of information about living and working in Scotland. On this 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.

Offshore Wind Jobs

What are the job roles in offshore wind?

Looking for more information on the type of jobs available in the offshore wind sector? Well you are in luck! Skills Development Scotland (SDS) and the Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council (SOWEC) have produced a handy brochure covering just that topic.

The PDF copy of the brochure (image above) is available to view and download from the SDS web site Career Opportunities in Scotland in Offshore Wind

The Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC) have partnered with the Energy and Utility Skills (EU Skills) body to deliver more detailed offshore wind occupational profiles but covering a smaller number of in demand job roles.

Each profile includes:

Narrative description of the occupation
Salary range
Description of entry pathways for new entrants and experienced workers
A descriptions of the main tasks and duties of the role
Routes to competence across the UK, considering variations in the devolved nations, focussing on apprenticeships, qualifications, industry schemes and National Occupational Standards
Mapping of tasks/duties to units of learning from each identified route to competence
Progression and feeder occupations
A short summary of supply and demand issues for the occupation

Their 'Occupational mapping for offshore wind' (link) section is on the OWIC website.