Wind Resource and Energy Yield Engineer

Our client is a Systems and Engineering Technology consultancy, operating from offices around the UK, helping and advising clients with their technical knowledge to develop, enhance and protect their critical assets, systems and processes. Offshore Wind and Floating Wind are core focus areas within their Renewable Energy division, supporting developers, operators and turbine and foundation OEMs throughout their projects' lifecycles.

Wind Resource and Energy Yield Engineer

They are currently seeking a Wind Resource and Energy Yield Engineer to help to deliver on an extensive portfolio of wind projects and further develop their services within the sector.

The primary focus of the role will be to support developers in resource and yield assessment and layout optimisation to support site selection, bids for leasing and for contracts for difference. You will also support wind farm operators in conducting operational assessments of existing assets to reconcile difference between actual and forecast performance, update predictions and identify performance issues.

Furthermore, as a member of our Energy Technology department you will understand our constituent teams' wider service offering and have the opportunity to support some of our other key clients in conducting wind turbine modelling, technical assessments and assessing project level risks for an offshore wind farm across various project stages. Depending on your experience and career preferences you will also have the opportunity to expand your remit, support projects and develop skills in related areas including wind research, wind advisory, independent loading modelling and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling.

To be considered for this role, applicants will need to be qualified with a good degree in Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics or a related discipline, with demonstrable experience of conducting wind resource and energy yield assessments in a consultancy or developer organisation. This could be derived from some or all of onshore, offshore and floating wind developments.
You will have a thorough understanding of the WRA and EYA processes including the methods used to collect and quality check wind resource data, correlate measurements with long term data sets, conduct flow modelling and quantify system losses and uncertainties.

In addition, the following would be beneficial:

Experience of applying high fidelity simulations such as CFD to solve a range of problems within and outside of the wind industry.
Experience of using commercial or open-source tools for wind farm performance prediction such WindPro/WindFarmer/PyWake/FLORIS.
Experience of conducting research into wind farm aerodynamic methods such as blockage and farm-to-farm wakes.
Experience in wind resource measurement campaign design.
Previous consultancy experience, including writing proposals, client liaison and business development.
Chartered Engineer status
Wind Resource and Energy Yield Engineer
Bristol
£negotiable DOE

Key Skills: Wind Resource, Energy Yield, Renewable, Wind, Offshore, Floating, Onshore, WRA, EYA, CFD, WindPro, WindFarmer, PyWake, FLORIS

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet these criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.

This is a PERMANENT position