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Location:
Salary:
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Loads and Controls Engineer
Izmir, Turkey
£Dependant on experience
Permanent
This position is at the newly-opening R&D center of a global leader in the wind energy industry.
REQUIREMENTS
- Education: BSc or MSc in engineering
- Previous Experience: 3-5 years
Required Knowledge:
- Concepts about wind energy, aeroelasticity, wind turbine loads, wind turbine design standards IEC61400-1
- Advanced written and spoken English
Valuable Knowledge:
- Structural analysis, aerodynamics, statistics, etc.
- Spanish language
Information Technology:
- Wind turbine aeroelastic calculation programs (GH Bladed, FLEX, HAWC, Fast, Phatas, etc.)
MISSION:
- Analyze the wind turbine loads and dynamics in different environmental conditions and contribute to the definition of the operational and safety strategies
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Analyze the loads and dynamics of the wind turbines according to the design standards
- Prepare the wind turbine models for aeroelastic calculation
- Do loads simulation by mean of the aeroelastic codes
- Do the necessary simulation pre and postprocessing
- Prepare loads reports for design and certification
- Do the test specification for the verification and validation of loads in the real wind turbine
- Give support to the execution of those validation tests
- Analyze the results from the load measurement tests
- Cooperate in the design of control, operation and safety strategies
MOBILITY
- Possible initial training period in Spain, 3 to 6 months
- Afterwards approx. 2 - 3 travels to Spain per year, 1-2 weeks period each