Blade Engineer

at  Vestas

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Graduate Degree in Science of Materials, Chemical, Mechanical Engineering or similar
• Experience within the wind power industry with blades and correlated processes as main working area, will be a requirement
• Desirable knowledge in composite regarding materials, analysis and manufacturing processes
• Significant experience with inspection and repair of blades
• Proficient in English both written and spoken
• Desirable Experience on blade damage assessment will be highly valued
• Proficient in English both written and spoken

• In this role you will be part of the ROE Blades team, working closely with the blade team to provide technical support and assistance to the service department with operational key focus and priority. You will be able to apply your blade engineering experience, combined with high-quality planning, organizational and communication skills to develop a team of Blade Technicians regionally to implement your tasks.
• Provide 1st level technical troubleshooting support to Service (Vestas & non-Vestas Wind Turbine)
• Provide onsite and back-office support on the blade damages assessment and repair methods
• Travel on a need basis to wind farms in order to enable direct issue resolution, supervision, or development of Blade technicians
• Provision of ad-hoc support to validate the Component Inspection Report (CIR) related to blades in the sub-region as well as approve CIR’s.
• Escalation of complex issues to the LATAM blade team, support the blade team where appropriate through issue resolution
• Support the sub-regional Service operations to create local job-specific documentation like JSA, method statements or procedures
• Support the sub-regional Service operations to ensure best practice is followed when conducting blade inspections or repairs
• Escalation of topics to the Global Engineering team and provide information as needed
• To be a technology expert supporting the Vestas LATAM region related to blades