Lead Engineer - Technical Regulations and Standards

Job Description Summary

Systems engineering is a cross-functional engineering discipline centered on an approach, mindset, and process. All activities that consider both the business and the technical needs of the customers with the goal of providing a quality product that meets the users needs. The discipline that executes a robust process of design, creation, and optimization of systems, consisting of identification and quantification of system requirements, creation of alternate system design concepts, performance of design trade studies, selection and implementation of the best designs and verification that the design is properly integrated and executed. Process that proceeds from concept to production to operation.
Impacts departmental operations and responsible for planning/execution. The role has some autonomy but is focused on execution of activities within an operating discipline covered by standard functional practices and procedures. Some judgment may be required but this is typically with guidance.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Reviews and understands the applicable standards required by Law for Onshore Wind Turbines installed in North America. Communicates standards to the design community and maintains it.
• Participates with independent third parties to perform product compliance and certification work (testing, design review etc.) and communicates results/actions to the relevant engineering and supply chain team.
• Interacts with outside engineering firms or governmental agencies to provide or record product compliance to required regional or national standards to gain the needed product certification or qualification.
• Developing in-depth knowledge of a technical discipline. Uses prior experience and acquired technical expertise to execute policy/strategy.
• In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.
• Uses some level of judgment and has ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters but with guidance.
• Uses prior experience and on-the-job training to solve straightforward tasks. Has access to technical skills and analytic thinking required to solve problems.
• May use multiple internal sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.
• A job at this level is likely to be an individual contributor with proven interpersonal skills or an early people leader who can hire and develop talent. Provides informal guidance to new team members

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in engineering
• Fluent in English
• Ability and availability to travel 10% to 20% of the year

• Strong, self-directed, collaborative team player with interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Comfortable providing technical presentations to peers and independent engineers
• Ability to interpret technical drawings, wiring schematics, and 3D models
• Power generation, renewable energy and wind industry experience
• Strong Project Management experience
• Strong oral and written communication skills Strong, self-directed, collaborative team player with interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Comfortable providing technical presentations to peers and independent engineers
• Ability to interpret technical drawings, wiring schematics, and 3D models
• Power generation, renewable energy and wind industry experience
• Strong Project Management experience
• Strong oral and written communication skills