Job Requirements

Seeking an engineering candidate to support the operation and maintenance of wind turbine electrical systems. The goal of the Electrical Wind Fleet team is to increase uptime of the fleet and decrease operation and maintenance costs.

Responsibilities:

• Root Cause Analysis for fleet level issues
• Repair Processes: Repair specifications, repair vendor qualifications, partnering with vendors on new procedures and opportunities
• Drive quality, reliability, availability, and safety improvement initiatives using a data driven mindset. Solutions include component and data-analytic (AI).
• Remotely support operations teams on difficult turbine specific troubleshoots
• Mentor wind fleet site teams on site level quality improvement initiatives

Work Experience

Basic Requirements

• Electrical Engineering Degree or 5+ years of equivalent experiences
• Willing and able to climb wind turbines and access turbine hub
• Have experience writing repair, operations, and/or maintenance procedures and specifications
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within teams
• Willing to work in an office environment
• Ability and interest to learn and self-teach new skills and technologies
• Ability to communicate and present to leadership
• Basic financial and business acumen. Can translate engineering solutions into financial benefit to business.
• Ability to balance and prioritize multiple projects and deliverables
• Data driven decision maker
• Estimated travel 20% to wind sites and vendor shops

Experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Electrical Systems (up to 690VAC, 230VDC)
• Electrical Sliprings
• Electric Motor and Drive Systems:
  • Motors: DC Series, DC Compound Wound, AC Permanent Magnet Synchronous, brakes, resolvers, encoders
  • AC to DC and DC to AC Power Converters
• Batteries and/or Ultra Capacitors
• Power Electronic & Control systems
• Electrical parts repair processes
• Passion for data mining and analytics