Principal WTG Engineer
Initial 12 Month Contract
Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey – 3 days per week in office, 2 days per week working from home
Outside IR35
A Principal WTG Engineer is required to work on an outside IR35 contract basis based in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey that will offer a hybrid working set up of 3 days per week in the office and 2 days per week working from home.
As the Principal WTG Engineer, you will ideally have experience of engineering software including Bladed, Fast and Orcaflex.
As Principal Engineer you will report to the Floating ILA Engineering Manager within the Offshore Wind business line. You will be responsible for all activities related to turbine design and interface with turbine OEM in offshore wind.
How can you support us? Here below your responsibilities:
Building and verification of aeroelastic model of the turbine
As the Principal WTG Engineer, you will manage the turbine controller tuning and development
Perform all required checks of the turbine and controller
Support the turbine tower design
Monitor, support and verify the ILA
As the Principal WTG Engineer, you will laise with external contractors related to the turbine model and controller
Participate in the technical meetings with clients
As the Principal WTG Engineer, you will provide a support to the Offshore Wind business unit activities, in terms of advanced and non-conventional structural analyses and numerical simulations
Write comprehensive and top quality industry standard technical reports
What are we looking for?
Education: Chartered Engineer (Engineering Degree - Aeronautical degree preferred)
Experience: As the Principal WTG Engineer, you will have 10-15 years in design for offshore wind covering both floating and fixed wind substructures
Technical skills: codes and standards, including DNV and IEC, turbine design, WTG
IT skills: engineering software (OrcaFlex, Bladed, Fast) and MS365
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