Lead Wind Turbine Load Specialist

Imagine a future where your technical expertise help optimize our existing portfolio and deliver tomorrow’s solutions to cost-efficient clean energy.

Join us in this role where you’ll take on technical leadership being responsible for our capabilities within aeroelasticity and wind turbine models applied in design of offshore foundations. You’ll also be responsible for aeroelastic support on performance management of our operating fleet.

Welcome to Loads
You’ll be part of Loads where you, together with your colleagues, will cover a wide range of tasks, such as continuous improvement of Ørsted’s in-house aeroelastic simulation software, turbine model implementation, analysis of measurement data from our existing fleet, support to operations, loads for design of new assets, as well as R&D work and tool development supporting all these activities and projects.

You’ll play an important role in:

• technical support and guidance to our colleagues working with wind turbine loads and aeroelastic models

• ensuring quality and drive improvement initiatives in our deliverables

• scoping and driving the technical enhancement of our in-house aeroelastic code DEFlex to continuously increase the accuracy of our wind turbine model

• do some hands-on tasks related to above topics.

To succeed in the role, you:

• have an engineering mindset with focus on quality, timely and appropriate delivery

• have a deep understanding of rotor aerodynamics, control and protection systems in relation to loads and stability

• have an extensive proven experience in building aeroelastic models and calculating loads on wind turbines, preferably from a wind turbine manufacturer

• have an understanding of atmospheric boundary layer and in-flow

•  have experience with validation of models from field measurements
• have a degree in engineering, physics, or similar.

You’re passionate and able to generate new ideas, and you proactively engage with relevant stakeholders across the organisation to identify new opportunities. You are action-oriented and have a pragmatic approach to problem solving as well as having the ability to convert stakeholders needs and complex problems into manageable tasks. You thrive in taking on technical leadership supporting decisions on technical matters, setting direction, delegating tasks and coaching. Furthermore, you have an analytical and structured approach, and you strive to improve methods on a continuous basis. You’re a team player, and as such you provide and welcome feedback and create momentum in the department by proactively sharing knowledge and inspiring the other team members.

You thrive in an international environment, working with colleagues of various nationalities and different professional and cultural backgrounds. Thus, it’s essential that you have excellent communication skills and speak and write English fluently.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accommodation@orsted.com.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.