PGE Baltica hires for Ustka O&M base as Baltica 2 heads for first power in 2027

Turbine technicians hired first, HV electricians and marine logistics next

Recruitment for the Ustka base began in December 2025 with the selection of wind turbine technicians, the people who will sail out to the farm on crew transfer vessels every day. The current round covers the second group: staff based day to day in Ustka but responsible for the onshore substation at Osieki Lęborskie in Lębork county, together with employees for planning, marine logistics and operational supervision of the generating assets.

PGE Baltica is targeting three candidate profiles. The first is technical-school graduates in electrical engineering with hands-on experience in operating power equipment and the Polish SEP qualification certificate for power installations. The second is electrical engineers with several years of high-voltage (HV) experience. The third is people with a maritime education and knowledge of the rules of navigation at sea, needed for marine logistics. Detailed requirements and job descriptions are published in the Careers section at pgebaltica.pl, where further vacancies will also appear.

- In line with the recruitment schedule announced in December 2025, we are completing the team that will operate the onshore part of the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm. There will certainly be no shortage of challenges, but also enormous satisfaction from taking part in strategic projects of key importance for Poland's energy security, with such a positive impact on local communities - said Bartosz Fedurek, president of the management board of PGE Baltica.

Bartosz Fedurek stresses that the Ustka base will be the place from which the farm and its infrastructure are supervised day to day.

- The base in Ustka will be the management centre for Baltica 2 infrastructure. As a result, the town will become one of the key hubs of Polish offshore wind - Bartosz Fedurek added.

Osieki Lęborskie substation links Baltica 2 to the grid

The onshore substation at Osieki Lęborskie is where power from the sea enters the transmission system. Export cables from four offshore substations will bring the energy ashore, and the Osieki station will condition it for the national grid. Without reliable operation of this site, the 107 turbines could run faultlessly and still deliver nothing to consumers.

The substation team will sit within the Ustka base, which is designed to operate around the clock. That explains the requirement for SEP certificates and HV experience in the job adverts: running the station is high-voltage work in an operating regime familiar from onshore power, but for the first time in Poland tied to an offshore wind farm of this scale.

Baltica 2 in numbers: 111 monopiles in place, turbines in 2027

Baltica 2 is being built around 40 km north of Ustka across roughly 190 sq km. PGE and Ørsted took the final investment decision in January 2025, and the project cost approaches PLN 30 billion. The farm will have 107 turbines of 14 MW each, 1,498 MW in total, and is expected to generate 5-6 TWh a year, enough for about 2.5 million households.

In August the installation of all 111 monopiles was completed: 107 for turbines and four for offshore substations. Van Oord ran the campaign with the vessels Svanen and Aeolus, with foundations transhipped at the port of Rønne on Bornholm. The foundations are now being fitted with more than 400 secondary elements, including platforms, boat landings and anode cages, three quarters of them made in Polish plants. The next stage is installation of the offshore substations and export cables, followed in 2027 by array cables and the turbines themselves, installed from the T5 installation terminal in the Port of Gdańsk. First power is scheduled for the first half of 2027 and full commercial operation by the end of 2027.

The base on the old Korab site: CTV quay and round-the-clock operation

The O&M base is rising on the western bank of Ustka port, on more than 2.3 hectares formerly occupied by the Korab fish processing plant. Gdańsk-based Doraco is the general contractor, construction started on 3 June 2025 and the port facilities are due for handover in the fourth quarter of 2026. The complex comprises an office and welfare building, a spare parts warehouse, a manoeuvring yard and a quay for crew transfer vessels carrying technicians and parts to the farm.

By the summer the main building and the warehouse had reached shell stage, and the access road, car park and the port-side construction support area were already in use, able to service CTVs. It is the first facility of its kind in the PGE Group and is designed to run continuously, because service availability determines how often turbines actually generate rather than wait for a crew. Daily life at such a base means planning sailings around weather windows, shift-based supervision of the farm and readiness to respond to a turbine standing several dozen kilometres out at sea.

Ustka is thereby becoming one of two O&M hubs for Polish offshore wind. The other is Łeba, where Erbud is finishing the base for Baltic Power, the Orlen and Northland Power project that delivered first power to the grid on 10 July 2026. For the port of Ustka the base also means year-round traffic beyond the summer season, and since August the port has again come under the reactivated Słupsk Maritime Office, which covers the coast from Łeba to Kołobrzeg.

Eight seabed permits and Baltica 3 in the pipeline

PGE Baltica, part of the PGE Group, holds eight location permits for offshore wind farms in the Baltic. Baltica 2 is the most advanced of them, and the next stage of the Baltica offshore wind farm is to be Baltica 3, with around 1 GW planned by 2030. The Ustka base is expected to serve the farm for at least 30 years of operation, and further hiring rounds will be announced at pgebaltica.pl/kariera.