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Canadian data · Ontario, Canada
A 90-metre climb before the wind picks up. Two hours in the nacelle replacing a pitch sensor, radio on your shoulder, nobody within shouting distance. Lunch is in the truck. You drive between three sites and you see more sky in a week than most people see in a year.
College certificate plus safety tickets, 12 months
A certificate — it says you studied. Employers want it; the law doesn't require it.
$8,000 – $12,000 including tickets
You do not earn while you learn.
$58k – $95ka year, Ontario
The low number is what you should plan on for the first years.
Openings a year
180 openings a year · More of it each year
Fastest-growing trade on this list by percentage, from a small base.
Who else is asking
about 6 people per opening
Moderate. Willingness to relocate is the real filter, not the certificate.
Whether a machine takes it
exposure: low
Sensors find the fault. Someone climbs ninety metres to fix it.
Where the work is
follow the work
Where the wind is: the lake shores and the prairie. Expect to move at least once.
Who actually does it
who's in the room
Young, mobile, and half of them arrived from another trade.
How soon you earn
About 12 months before you earn
Counted from the day you decide, not the day you start.
No bottleneck, but the jobs are where the wind is — expect to move.
The travel, and the fact that heights stop being exciting around year three.
Site supervision, solar and storage commissioning, high-voltage work, safety training.
Book an hour at an indoor climbing gym and do a rope course. If the exposure bothers you, you've saved a year.
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