WIND ENERGY ENGINEER

Job Definition:

Job Description:

• Design underground or overhead wind farm collector systems and prepare and develop site specifications.

Duties and Tasks:

• 1) Provide engineering technical support to designers of prototype wind turbines.
• 2) Perform root cause analysis on wind turbine tower component failures.
• 3) Test wind turbine components, using mechanical or electronic testing equipment.
• 4) Write reports to document wind farm collector system test results.
• 5) Oversee the work activities of wind farm consultants or subcontractors.
• 6) Test wind turbine equipment to determine effects of stress or fatigue.
• 7) Recommend process or infrastructure changes to improve wind turbine performance, reduce operational costs, or comply with regulations.
• 8) Investigate experimental wind turbines or wind turbine technologies for properties such as aerodynamics, production, noise, and load.
• 9) Monitor wind farm construction to ensure compliance with regulatory standards or environmental requirements.
• 10) Direct balance of plant (BOP) construction, generator installation, testing, commissioning, or supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) to ensure compliance with specifications.
• 11) Develop specifications for wind technology components, such as gearboxes, blades, generators, frequency converters, and pad transformers.
• 12) Develop active control algorithms, electronics, software, electromechanical, or electrohydraulic systems for wind turbines.
• 13) Create or maintain wind farm layouts, schematics, or other visual documentation for wind farms.
• 14) Create models to optimize the layout of wind farm access roads, crane pads, crane paths, collection systems, substations, switchyards, or transmission lines.
• 15) Design underground or overhead wind farm collector systems.
• 16) Analyze operation of wind farms or wind farm components to determine reliability, performance, and compliance with specifications.

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