Assistant Lead / Lead Engineer – Loads

The department is responsible for delivering service solutions on All Brands enabling the service business within Vestas to fulfil its skilled, strategic targets. The service solutions vary from parts & repair over maintenance concepts to product developments and upgrade solutions like component life extensions, rotor upgrades, optimizations of performance and cost-out initiatives. The department holds the design responsibility for service/aftersales solutions on the products no longer being manufactured. We are responsible for delivering innovative solutions to ensure highest possible value to Vestas customers in the service business. We enable combining operational WTG knowledge with new designs and for service solutions.

Responsibilities:-

• Feasibility studies of new turbine features aiming at optimising power, loads and noise performance through innovative use of sensors, controllers and actuators for the existing fleet variants
• Supervise the technical aspects of product development for specific after sales products from feasibility state to fully verified product on committed scope, budget and schedule
• Supervise new technology advancements in Service to adapt existing fleet variants operates similar to the latest Vestas products
• Handle field issues, CIM cases, sudden events related to turbine operation to improve turbine downtime and to ensure turbine structural integrity etc
• Supervise Offshore load calculation efforts for enabling power plus opportunities
• Lead Technology roadmap in Service from Ideation to Implementation

Qualifications And Experience:-

• MTech/MS in the stream of Civil or Aerospace or Mechanical from an accredited university or engineering college
• At least 5 years of experience with load evaluation towards wind turbine design
• The knowledge with the tools Flex5, Bladed or HAWC2 (aero-elastic simulations) & modelling
• The knowledge on software and programming skills (ex. C, C++, Matlab, etc.)
• Innovative competencies within innovative simulation of mechanical or structural systems
• The knowledge on Electro-mechanical systems

Competencies:-

• You have strong interest towards innovation and would like to capture it in your everyday work
• You welcome situations
• You are pro- innovative and inquisitive
• You are curious at learning new skills
• You are very structured on your approach to work
• You are customer oriented and have the ability to understand the business value chain seen from a service and customer perspective

Location:-

• Chennai, India.

Company Overview:-

Vestas is proud to be the energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions. We design, manufacture, install, and service wind turbines across the globe, and we have installed more wind power than anyone else.

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.