Senior Blade Engineer

Summary

Join SkySpecs as a Blade Expert and manage blade asset health for customers using the Horizon platform. You will offer expert guidance on wind turbine blade damages, create monitoring recommendations, and develop repair budgets. Responsibilities include reviewing repair reports, providing engineering support for repair projects, and overseeing strategic account managers. You will also create customer deliverables, lead projects, and support sales efforts. This role requires a BA/BS in a technical field and 7+ years of wind energy blade engineering experience. Strong communication skills and the ability to manage distributed teams are essential.

Requirements

• BA/BS in Business, Engineering, or another technical/analytical field
• 7+ years of experience in wind energy blade engineering working for an OEM, owner/operator or ISP
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills to both internal and external stakeholders
• Expertise in blade design, manufacturing, and repairs (operations and maintenance)
• Ability to manage distributed teams across multiple locations and time zones
• Customer-focused with a self-starter mentality

Responsibilities

• Manage blade asset health for our customers through our Horizon platform for a variety of services
• Offer expert guidance to key customers regarding wind turbine blade damages, defects, and high-level analysis of catastrophic failures
• Create monitoring recommendations, actions, and repair priorities
• Work order creation and population
• Damage and rules schema review
• Contribute expertise to improve and create analytical dashboards for repair campaigns, blade damage, and repair reports
• Aid in determining the scope of repair budgets
• Inspection strategy recommendations
• Review blade repair reports for documentation standards and completeness
• Review repair approach, workmanship, and industry best practices
• Provide blade engineering support for the Repair Vendor Management (RVM) service line, which includes
• Estimating blade repairs
• Real-time engineering support for ongoing blade repairs
• General support with the repair ISP project awards
• Oversight of strategic account managers on writing scopes of work and master service agreements
• Lead or participate in customer projects, including technology assessments, report generation, and client communication
• Produce comprehensive reports and email correspondence to convey information to clients with clarity, objectivity, accuracy, and technical precision
• Understand and address customer asset management problems, provide insights into root causes, explore alternatives, and outline timelines and costs for various solutions
• Collaborate with customers and other stakeholders to identify and pursue new opportunities for blade asset management

Preferred Qualifications

• MS in Engineering, Applied Science, or related field
• Engineering or business management consulting experience
• Experience in software services or startups