Wind Energy Engineers
Design underground or overhead wind farm collector systems and prepare and develop site specifications.
What you’d do
- Create or maintain wind farm layouts, schematics, or other visual documentation for wind farms.
- Recommend process or infrastructure changes to improve wind turbine performance, reduce operational costs, or comply with regulations.
- Create models to optimize the layout of wind farm access roads, crane pads, crane paths, collection systems, substations, switchyards, or transmission lines.
Skills that matter
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Mathematics
- Active Listening
- Complex Problem Solving
How to get there
Considerable preparation: most need a four-year bachelor's degree
Also called
- Engineer
- Project Engineer
- Utility Engineer
- Wind Energy Consultant
- Turbine Measurements Engineer
- Wind Farm Siting and Development Consultant
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