Occupation: Wind Energy Engineers

Wind Energy Engineers

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

Reported Job Titles (7)

Core Tasks (3)

Create or maintain wind farm layouts, schematics, or other visual documentation for wind farms.
Recommend process or infrastructure changes to improve wind turbine performance, reduce operational costs, or comply with regulations.
Create models to optimize the layout of wind farm access roads, crane pads, crane paths, collection systems, substations, switchyards, or transmission lines.

Supplemental Tasks (13)

Provide engineering technical support to designers of prototype wind turbines.
Investigate experimental wind turbines or wind turbine technologies for properties such as aerodynamics, production, noise, and load.
Develop active control algorithms, electronics, software, electromechanical, or electrohydraulic systems for wind turbines.
Develop specifications for wind technology components, such as gearboxes, blades, generators, frequency converters, or pad transformers.
Test wind turbine components, using mechanical or electronic testing equipment.
Oversee the work activities of wind farm consultants or subcontractors.
Test wind turbine equipment to determine effects of stress or fatigue.
Monitor wind farm construction to ensure compliance with regulatory standards or environmental requirements.
Direct balance of plant (BOP) construction, generator installation, testing, commissioning, or supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) to ensure compliance with specifications.
Analyze operation of wind farms or wind farm components to determine reliability, performance, and compliance with specifications.
Perform root cause analysis on wind turbine tower component failures.
Design underground or overhead wind farm collector systems.
Write reports to document wind farm collector system test results.