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Job Description
Design underground or overhead wind farm collector systems and prepare and develop site specifications.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-2199.10
Also Known As…
- Wind Turbine Design Engineer
- Wind Science and Planning
- Wind Farm Siting and Development Consultant
- Utility Engineer
- Turbine Measurements Engineer
- Senior Wind Energy Consultant
- Senior Project Engineer
- Senior Engineer/Practice Leader-Land Development and Engineering
- Project Engineer
- Project Designer, Transmission and Distribution Engineering
- Wind Turbine Performance Engineer
- Wind Turbine Mechanical Engineer
- Wind Turbine Engineer
- Wind Turbine Electrical Engineer
- Wind Turbine Controls Engineer
- Wind Farm Engineer
- Wind Farm Electrical Systems Designer
- Wind Farm Designer
- Wind Energy Engineer
- Turbine Engineer
- Structural Engineer
- Project Manager
- Principal Engineer
- Field Test Engineer
- Engineer
- Application Engineer
- Aerodynamics Engineer
- Aerodynamic Consultant
Tasks for “Wind Energy Engineers”
- Investigate experimental wind turbines or wind turbine technologies for properties such as aerodynamics, production, noise, and load.
- Design underground or overhead wind farm collector systems.
- Develop active control algorithms, electronics, software, electromechanical, or electrohydraulic systems for wind turbines.
- Monitor wind farm construction to ensure compliance with regulatory standards or environmental requirements.
- Test wind turbine components, using mechanical or electronic testing equipment.
- Direct balance of plant (BOP) construction, generator installation, testing, commissioning, or supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) to ensure compliance with specifications.
- Provide engineering technical support to designers of prototype wind turbines.
- Perform root cause analysis on wind turbine tower component failures.
- Analyze operation of wind farms or wind farm components to determine reliability, performance, and compliance with specifications.
- Create or maintain wind farm layouts, schematics, or other visual documentation for wind farms.
- Oversee the work activities of wind farm consultants or subcontractors.
- Test wind turbine equipment to determine effects of stress or fatigue.
- Recommend process or infrastructure changes to improve wind turbine performance, reduce operational costs, or comply with regulations.
- Write reports to document wind farm collector system test results.
- Develop specifications for wind technology components, such as gearboxes, blades, generators, frequency converters, and pad transformers.
- Create models to optimize the layout of wind farm access roads, crane pads, crane paths, collection systems, substations, switchyards, or transmission lines.
Related Technology & Tools
- Light detection and ranging LIDAR systems
- Digital video cameras
- Electronic temperature sensors
- Wind vanes
- Desktop computers
- Barometric pressure sensors
- Handheld global positioning system GPS units
- Digital still cameras
- Portable meteorological stations
- Cup anemometers
- Recording anemometers
- Soil samplers
- Laptop computers
- Sonic detection and ranging SODAR equipment
- Dataloggers
- Pyranometers
- Propeller anemometers
- Mainframe computers
- PTC Creo Parametric
- Risoe National Laboratory Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program WAsP
- Siemens PSS Product Suite
- PowerWorld Corporation PowerWorld Simulator
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- ANSYS
- Microsoft Excel
- Google Earth Pro
- Power system modeling software
- Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software
- ESRI ArcInfo
- EMD International WindPRO
- Microsoft Visual Basic.NET
- Dassault Systems SOLIDWORKS
- Oracle Primavera Systems
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- C++
- Microsoft Word
- Manitoba HVDC Research Centre PSCAD
- Bentley Microstation
- SKM Systems Analysis Power Tools
- WindSim
- Microsoft Access
- GE Energy Positive Sequence Load Flow Software PSLF
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Web conferencing software
- Geographic information system GIS software
- Formula translation/translator FORTRAN
- Computational fluid dynamics CFD software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Office
- Mathsoft Mathcad
- Schneider Electric Direct Coordination
- Web browser software
- Global Mapper Software Global Mapper
- Microsoft Project
- ESRI ArcGIS Spatial Analyst
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- ReSoft WindFarm
- Microsoft Visual C# .NET
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Structured query language SQL
- DIgSILENT PowerFactory