Since the start of the school year in September, EDF Renewables, responsible for operating the Fécamp offshore wind farm, has recruited an apprentice as a maintenance worker, a first in France. Lilian Desmezieres, 20, is pursuing a professional degree in Saint-Nazaire and is going to the high seas to maintain the 71 wind turbines of Normandy's first offshore park.
Lilian is a maintenance technician, her mission is therefore to maintain the installations of the Fécamp offshore wind farm. His daily life is spent more than 15 kilometers offshore, changing parts on wind turbines or their maintenance stations. But much more than electrician skills in wind power, he must have acquired sailor's reflexes.
Deep sea electrician
“We have a five-day trainingsays the young man. We learn first aid, fire management… But also survival on the high seas: how to open a lifeboat for example, or how to swim with a life jacket, because it's not that simple!”
Lila Lefebvre
All under the watchful eye of his tutor Jérémy Métayer, the maintenance manager of the Fécamp offshore wind farm, at the head of a team of 10 agents, including Lilian. “I was very enthusiastic about recruiting an apprentice as a maintenance technician, who would go to sea. Because offshore wind power is new in France, and it’s a profession that needs to become known, particularly among young people”.
“I have always loved the sea and wanted to work in the environment”supports Lilian. During his professional baccalaureate and his BTS specialized in wind power in Fécamp, he observed construction of the offshore park “I said to myself there is an opportunity”. A profession which has good recruitment prospects with the ongoing construction of the Dieppe-Le Tréport and Courseulles parksas well as the projects of two new parks off the coast of Fécamp to the 2035 horizon.
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