Lead Engineer - Turbine Operability
Bengaluru, INDIA IT development
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Job Description Summary
Tuning and Operations team is devoted to wind turbine systems modeling and operability tuning for product development and fleet support, with a strong focus on product optimization.The vision of the Tuning and Operations team is to create customer value by delivering products with highest availability by minimizing risks from turbine operability related aspects and deliver quick return to service by timely and effective resolution of fleet issues.
The role of the Operability engineer includes enabling wind turbine optimization via appropriate control tuning of core operational and supervisory turbine control algorithms. This should result in wind turbine products capable of meeting targets on availability, high performance, levelized cost of energy (LCOE) as well as compliance with specific market segment regulations in terms of noise, grid code, etc.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
- 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’s 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 closed-loop analysis.
- 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.
- 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.
Note:
To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes