Quality Engineer- Wind Turbines
Nottingham
Our client provides software, services, advanced sensing and data analytics for gearboxes, drivetrains, bearings and rotating machinery. We enable increased production and reduced operations and maintenance costs through predictive analytics built on a foundation of hands-on engineering expertise.
They are now seeking a proactive and analytical individual to support their global turbine monitoring team and customers. Working with a global team of wind turbine health monitoring engineers and analysts, you will undertake quality assurance and continuous improvement initiatives to drive the efficiency of our wind turbine health monitoring service and SaaS product.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver continuous improvement projects for the company’s global asset condition monitoring and remote diagnostics service
- Contribute to service delivery quality assurance for the asset health monitoring business lines
- Perform investigation of customer issues and quality escapes requiring senior level review
- Identify and coordinate service delivery improvements emerging from reviews and lead customer reporting
- Support regional service delivery teams with customer onboarding, wind farm setups and asset health monitoring
- Undertake hands-on asset monitoring as required to enable insight to quality improvement opportunities
- Develop high quality knowledge-sharing resources and process documentation for use by wider team
- Conduct internal audits and support corrective actions to ensure consistency and quality of global service
- Support development, testing, validation, and documentation of analytical methods to improve diagnosis and prognosis capabilities
- Assist in developing automation solutions and maintaining KPI reporting and technical information databases for asset health management services
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in relevant STEM subject (e.g. Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Automation and Control, Computer Science, Physics)
- Minimum 2 years of experience in engineering, technical, operations or quality roles (wind industry or other sectors with rotating machinery a plus)
- Python and SQL programming experience (preferred – other scripting/programming experience also considered); understanding of databases
- Knowledge of condition monitoring and vibration analysis
- Some experience of quality management and/or continuous improvement
- Knowledge of data analysis, measurement and data acquisition, signal processing, statistical analysis
- Problem-solver with exceptional analytical skills and attention to detail
- Committed and enthusiastic about improvement and technical assurance of service delivery
- Strong communication and ability to collaborate effectively with global team members
- Motivated by the opportunity to contribute to the energy transition process
- Ability to develop (with training) a high level of technical expertise in wind turbine condition monitoring
- Various skills/knowledge may be developed on the job for the right candidate.