Chris Oconnor

Background

About Chris Oconnor

After leaving College with a Level 3 in Engineering I started off working on large arable farms in England working with farm machinery carrying out field operations and repairs as well as general farm duties. As this work was seasonal I needed a full time Job in which my skills would be transferable. Thankfully in 2010 I started with B9 Energy working on Bonus 600's once described as "agricultural engineering". This got me into the basics of wind turbines and was a good starting block. After 8 months on the 600's I moved to another site to work on Acciona 1.5mw machines which are a very complex machine in comparison. A year later I moved back to Ireland to work on Siemens/Bonus 1.3mw machines which I was very fimilar with due to my past experiance with the Bonus 600's.After 3 Months of working at home I was offered a job with a new company in the Wind O&M industry Simple Power providing 250kw machines to local farmers.This job has been a great challange for me and it's great to enjoy this kind of work. I'm always looking to improve and better myself as a technican as time goes on and also seek new challanges along the way.