Job Description Summary

The Senior Generator Design Engineer is part of the onshore wind product design process and key for successful, high quality NPI execution, fulfillment and issue resolution. In this role you will have full component ownership for Wind Turbine main generators, including requirements definition, interfaces, capability, testing, etc. This provides great opportunity to drive engineering excellence, quality, and to optimize these generators on performance, cost & reliability.

Impacts approaches, projects and programs in the functional area or affected business organization and ways of working. Impacts quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own team. Has significant input into priorities. Guided by professional practices and policies that are shaped by the role. The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of Engineering design work on wind turbine main generators, their testing, validation as well as implementation into the wind turbine electrical system and into the machine head.
• Full component ownership for specific generator models. Drive the definition of characteristics/requirements, technical clarification and design partnership with suppliers, interface definition, prototyping, testing, introduction into manufacturing and field issue resolution.
• Definition and control of complete technical documentation, including specifications, bills of material, drawings, 3D-models, and schematics.
• Ensure compliance of components and their use to international codes and standards.
• Lead global and cross-functional teams to leverage ‘Best Practice’ for electrical testing and validation procedures.
• Preparation of design / analysis documentation, e.g. Design Practices, design record book articles, Work Desk Instructions (WDI), etc.
• Support Sourcing organization for new supplier qualification and supplier audits. Understand the cost and cost driving parameters of the generator. Support should-cost investigations.
• Support root cause analysis on technical issues.
• Partnership with the Technical Leaders and leading global team members to ensure high quality and on-time delivery for all engineering assignments.

• Act as resource for colleagues with less experience.

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Significant experience with electrical rotating machines design, applications and/or practices.
• Deep knowledge in international codes and standards, related to rotating machines and their applications.
• Positive mindset with good verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to pull together global teams across functions to drive consensus and decisions.
• Strong Program Management skills, experience and attitude.
• Self-motivated.
• Availability to travel up to 15% of the time.

Desired Characteristics

• Wind turbine electrical system knowledge.
• Proven wind engineering experience.
• Strong analytical approach to problem solving.
• Proven strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, document, plan, and execute multiple deliverables in parallel.

• Flexibility in working with peers from different time zones.

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