Senior Wind & Site Engineer (m/f/d)

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Position Summary:

As a Senior Wind and site Engineer, you will support the North American sales team by suggesting appropriate turbine models, evaluating the turbine suitability, determining annual energy production and preparing site assessment reports at prospective wind farms being bid. Increases bid competitiveness by optimizing project layouts and mitigating turbine curtailment, thus reducing cost of energy at certain projects.

The senior wind & site engineer also supports the efforts of junior wind & site engineers by consulting with them on projects and reviewing project modeling and reports.

Supports the North American COE G13 group with certain tasks such as project optimization.

 

Responsibilities:

• Acts as a meteorological expert to various internal departments by providing guidance on turbine model selection at prospective projects and site-specific meteorological conditions to be used for internal analyses. 

• Builds wind modeling at prospective projects, with appropriate software (WAsP, WindPRO, etc), by batching and cleaning raw data from meteorological towers, sodars and lidars, creating elevation contour and roughness maps, performing long-term MCP analysis of short-term time series data, and analyzing ambient turbulence at varying hub heights.

• Uses customer-provided wind farm layouts, run WAsP, WindPRO and internal models to determine annual energy production (including losses and uncertainties), assess extreme winds and flow angles, calculate ambient, wake and total effective turbulence, analyze long-term climatic conditions (such as temperature and air density), and determine fatigue loads at each turbine location for prospective projects being bid by the sales team. In cases of excessive turbulence and/or excessive fatigue loads, determine appropriate curtailment strategies such as wind sector management and wind velocity management.

• Prepares internal and public Site Assessment Reports for the sales and service sales teams. The public SARs (to be released to customers) contain the wind analysis and mechanical loads results. The internal SARs also contain annual energy production and project risk and potential risk mitigation/project optimization suggestions.

• Works with Sales managers to ensure all needs of potential customers are met. Typically, this entails analyses to increase competitiveness and optimize annual energy production of prospective projects.  This can include but isn’t limited to: site visits, customer meetings, layout optimization, shadow flicker analysis, sound analysis, GIS analysis, meteorological campaign design, custom reporting, and basic BOP design.

• Supports junior wind & site engineers by consulting with them on their projects and then reviewing the project modeling and Site Assessment Reports.

• Supports the North American COE G13 group by working on project optimization and other strategies to create COE cards.

• Supports and coordinate field corrective actions, inspection and test plans, and performance assessment activities to ensure proper equipment installation, operation, and maintenance delivery.

• Performs work under minimal supervision. Handles complex issues and problems, and refers only the most complex issues to higher-level staff. Possesses comprehensive knowledge of subject matter

• Possesses comprehensive knowledge of subject matter.

• Provides leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to a subordinate group.

• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

 

Direct Reports:

No Direct Reports

 

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Statistics, Physics, or the equivalent combination of education and experience

• Minimum of 5-7 years of wind resource assessment experience

• Demonstrable competency in main wind assessment software (e.g. WindPro, Openwind) plus MS Excel

• A minimum of 5-7 years of professional experience

• Experience working with multiple file formats

• Independent problem solver

• Comfortable working in a startup environment

• Superior verbal and written communication skills and high level of attention to detail

 

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