Lead Engineer – Operability

Tuning and Operations is devoted to Wind Turbine systems modeling and Operability tuning for New Products, Cost-out programs and Fleet support, with a strong focus on product optimization.

The vision of the Tuning and Operations team is to support in developing winning LCOE wind turbine products for all markets, leveraging advanced multibody dynamics simulation capabilities, system dynamics analysis and system optimization through controller tuning, while keeping high-standards on quality and on time delivery.

The role of the Lead Operability engineer includes driving control tuning optimization for reliable, high performance and low LCOE wind turbines products, adhering to market compliance and supporting segment simulation teams by providing control tuning guidance.

Roles and Responsibilities:-

• Drive control tuning for AEP vs Loads trade-off optimization, whilst ensuring control stability and availability, including market requirements like Grid codes, NRO, CWE etc
• Identify gaps in controls algorithms and adopt new Controller features and algorithms developed by the Controls COE and tune them to meet Operability and Grid requirements for different Products.
• Be skilled on Operability and integrate with other sub system teams to ensure quality products that meet the LCOE targets.
• Work with senior engineer and CTH to support requirements definitions for new controller strategies to optimize Loads, AEP and stability of the turbine, whilst meeting the Grid codes for the required markets.
• Liaison with PMO and Controls team on prototype and farm level validation for simulations and/or co-simulations in Flex and/or Simpack to reproduce turbine behavior during events like NPP, LVRT etc and optimize these.
• Take lessons learnt from fleet issues into design space.
• Support Operability tuning and grid related projects from ITO/OTR/SVO
• Support team members and drive projects that are challenging, while managing conflicting priorities.
• Coordinate introduction of new controller releases into the product, ensure validation is completed and ready to be used by SVO team.

Qualifications And Experience:-

• Master’s degree from an accredited university in electrical engineering, Control Engineering or Aerospace Engineering.
• Knowledge of high-fidelity MBS softwares for wind turbine aero elastic simulations (Bladed, Simpack, Hawc2, Adams, etc.).
• 8-10 years in turbine control/Convertor control tuning and optimizing.
• Effective problem identification and solving ability.
• Proven ability to work in a cross-functional and global environment.
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English.
• Strong interpersonal skills, leading and influencing skills and a positive energy.
• Some years of aeroelastic simulation experience for Wind Turbines.

Desired Characteristics:-

• Experience in controller code development for wind turbines.
• Good understanding of WT controls.
• Wind turbine system design experience.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills, including ability to work across cultural boundaries in a global team.
• Product or Project Management Experience.
• Pro-active thinking & action to ensure quality.
• Strong issue resolution skills and conflict management

Location:-

• Bangalore, India.

Company Overview:-

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