Job Description

For our TP (Turbine Performance) team within the LO&P (Loads and Performances) Unit in Service Product Integrity and Technology Engineering department we are looking for new colleagues to work with us as a wind-turbine aerodynamics engineer. Main mission of aerodynamics engineer is to improve and validates the aerodynamic and aeroacoustics design of the rotor as well as performing the aerodynamic integration of the complete wind turbine at the fleet contributing to the definition of operational and safety strategies. That means, to understand the aerodynamic design solutions in the SGRE fleet and introduce new solutions to improve the fleet performance. In addition, she/he will be responsible for supporting fleet performance cases, including the definition and evaluation of power and noise curves. Fleet performance cases covers different kind of activities like supporting performance tests for new turbine upgrades to measure the contribution for increments in the energy production, activities like forecasting market potential for new upgrade solutions, and other activities like analyse cases of energy production underperformance and work into the root cause analysis.


For that you will work into a multidisciplinary team of employees located in different countries where as WTG Aerodynamics Engineer, you will interact with the Chief Functional and the other engineers of his team working together in order to solve problems related with wind turbine aerodynamics and provide directions to come up with solutions.

What are my responsibilities?

• Design aerodynamics upgrades for the blade in order to improve the performance of the wind turbine at the fleet (AEP, noise reduction, etc)
• Calculate power and noise curves in standard and specific sites conditions.
• Cooperate in the design of control, operation and safety strategies to identify possible aerodynamic problems.
• Do computational fluids simulations by mean of the CFD software, being necessary a pre and postprocessing of them.
• Do the wind tunnel test specification for the verification and validation of airfoils and give support to the execution of validation tests and analyse the results from the measurement tests.
• Perform root cause analysis of performance cases and contribute with case understanding and description through operational data analysis. Deliver technical support on this area to other teams and departments.
• Cooperate with the team lead in the specification and development of new technical procedures/methodologies or tools needed to improve the team performance and knowledge.
• Bring learnings to the organization from operational experience of the fleet performance.

What do I need to qualify for this job?

• You have a background within Aeronautical engineering.
• You have relevant aerodynamics technical experience around 3-5 years.
• You have knowledge in Aeroacoustics.
• You have experience in wind turbine aerodynamic analysis using CFDs software (OpenFOAM, Fluent…)
• You acquired a generalist knowledge and experience related to wind turbines and wind energy disciplines.
• You have knowledge about wind-turbine blade add-ons
• You have experience in modelling of advanced surfaces with CAD tools.
• You have programming skills in any of these languages C++, PhP, Fortran…
• To have professional experience in data analysis with Matlab and Python. Design of analysis models, automation of processes, design of visualizations and KPIs to understand large data sets.
• To be proactive, a good team player, persistent and self-driven, with good communication skills and multicultural sensitivity.
• To have teamwork skills and ability to work in a cross-department matrix environment.
• To have initiative, analysis skills, self-motivated, self-improvement, willing to learn, emotional intelligence and ability to team-work.
• You have full professional competence in English.

Skills Required

• Python
• CAD
• Aeronautical