Lead Engineer - Turbine Operability

• Drive the progressive retirement of operability related engineering risks as part of different phases of a new product introduction (NPI) cycle from early conceptual design to product validation. Ensure turbine operation displays adequate levels of closed-loop stability availability robustness and compliance to market-specific requirements such as grid codes noise cold weather etc. Implement learnings from the fleet into the design phase.

• Perform controller tuning and operability assessments independently actively collaborate with other sub-system and cross-functional teams for delivering on new products with high quality from conceptual design to product validation stage; Project specific assessments to support new unit sales in ITO phase or project execution in OTR phase; Fleet issue resolution and root case analysis projects.

• Drive the realization of system level tradeoffs (Energy production v/s Loads etc. ) via application of controls technologies/solutions to minimize turbine cost while pushing envelope on turbine performance and availability.

• Lead the adoption of new controller features and algorithms developed by the Controls organization as well as the ability to tune them to meet specific wind turbine systems trade-offs.

Required Qualifications

• Master degree from an accredited university in Controls Engineering Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering or related disciplines with specialization in Controls.
• Expertise in aspects of controls theory such as system modelling closed-loop design and model-based controls.
• 6-10 years in wind turbine or converter control tuning and optimizing.
• Knowledge of high-fidelity multibody simulation (MBS) software for aeroelastic simulations (Simpack Flex5 Bladed Hawc2 Adams etc. ). Some years of aeroelastic simulation experience applied to wind turbines.
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English.

Desired Characteristics

• Good understanding of wind turbine controls. Experience in controller code development for wind turbines. Wind turbine system design experience.
• Possessing strong analytical skills proficiency in time series analysis and statistical thinking is advantageous.
• Basic proficiency in MATLAB/Python programming as well as GitHub version control.
• Excellent communication interpersonal and presentation skills including ability and willingness to work across cultural boundaries in a global team.