Assistant Lead Engineer – Design & Development

Tower Internals is a Sub Module of the Tower R&D within the Research and Development area in VTO (Vestas Technology and Operations). Research and Development is a business unit where new product ideas are developed, matured, improved, maintained and tested. Research and development operates on a global scale with more than 2,300 employees. Tower R&D is the technology department responsible for the design and innovation of Vestas Towers. The Tower organization is 140+ strong responsible for the design, development, industrialization and lifecycle support of tower products. We are a team of diverse people with different technical competencies, educational backgrounds and personal traits. We are very open-minded and encourage a go-do-approach.

Responsibilities:-

• Identification and requirements specification for the Tower Internals Building Blocks
• Design new solutions from early conceptualization to final detail design
• Optimization of the solutions through FEA assessment and structural calculation
• Verification of the new solutions performing Fit, Form and Function tests in our wind Turbine Tower prototypes
• Coordinate suppliers and co-develop new Building Blocks through Technical Purchase Specifications
• Lead technical work-packages ensuring safety, quality, time and cost expectations

Qualifications and Experience:-

• Bachelor or Master´s degree in Mechanical, Structural, Industrial or Aeronautical Engineering
• Minimum professional experience: 5 years in new product development within the wind industry or similar
• Proven experience with design activities like DFMEA, Design Risk Assessment, Design Verification Procedures and Design Verification Result
• Proven experience leading technical work-packages and design through suppliers
• Mechanical design and BoM creation using CAD tools, preferably CREO
• Understanding of structural analysis using FEA tools, preferably Ansys

Competencies:-

• Ability to coordinate and handle suppliers
• Great interpersonal skills and ability to interact with multi-cultural and diverse teams all around the globe
• Customer-focused and solution-oriented
• Proven ability to work both with limited supervision and in teams in an environment with tight deadlines
• Open-minded and good at sharing and gathering information within a team to bridge the gap between design and value chain
• Good communication skills in English, both written and verbal
• Ability to plan, scope and organize work package execution

Location:-

• Chennai, India.

Company Overview:-

Vestas strives to be the most inclusive workplace in the sustainable energy industry and ensure equal opportunities for everyone regardless of the social identity. We are stronger as a company not despite our differences, but because of them, both professionally and personally. Beyond a diverse workforce, we want to ensure that all of our employees are included and actively contributing to Vestas’ success and innovation. Only then can we become the global leader in sustainable energy solutions and ensure sustainability in everything we do.

At Vestas, we offer global opportunities for people with growth mindsets and the desire to make a shared and positive impact. We work in the true spirit of our corporate values: accountability, simplicity, collaboration, and passion. We expect everyone to live up to these in their day to day work – no matter what you do and where you are in the organisation.