The manufacture of wind energy plants in the on-shore segment has been our core competence and passion for around 35 years. With more than 37 GW installed capacity worldwide, our turbines supply sustainable energy to more than 80% of the global energy market and we are one of the largest companies in the wind industry. National subsidiaries in more than 30 markets and production facilities in Germany, Spain, Brazil, the USA, Mexico and India offer our more than 8,500 employees the opportunity for international and intercultural cooperation.
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Grid Connection & Compliance Engineer
Hamburg, DE, 22419 Rostock, DE, 18057
Your Tasks:
- Having the mentality of a product owner for Grid Code Compliance within Nordex.
- Analyse and evaluate Grid Code requirements and standards.
- Ensuring that there is no requirement without a test case.
- Transfer and translate Grid Code requirements to the software development process by abstract software requirements and test cases. Being member of an agile software development process.
- Develop internal product specifications for Grid Code compliance.
- Support the Grid Code compliance and Grid connection within Sales and Project phase.
- Define test plans for Grid Code compliance and quality assurance on wind farm, wind turbine and component level.
- Perform, evaluate and document Grid Code compliance tests.
- Analyse test data.
- Specifying new functions and features to gain, maintain and optimise Grid Code compliance on wind farm and wind turbine level.
- Shape and clarify Grid Code requirements within working groups, committees and direct exchange with utilities and customers.
- Having a clear picture and deep understanding of the capabilities of the Nordex products to be able to rate Grid Code compliance.
- Optimise the processes within Grid Code compliance.
Your Profile:
- M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering/Power Systems or B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering/Power Systems or similar.
- Experience with Grid Code requirements.
- Experience defining test cases and ideally test driven development.
- Good knowledge Grid Code compliance on power plant level and software details to archive this. Ideally due to experience with and wind turbine OEM or similar.
- Programming experience in Python or similar supporting test analysis and automatization.
- You have self-responsible, structured, customer and solution-oriented working mind set.
- Intercultural understanding, and you thrive strive on working collaboratively with teams across functions and geographies.
- Fluent English spoken and written. Spanish and/or German is a plus.
- Good communication skills.
- You are proactive, assertive and a team player.
- You do not have the impression that testing was mentioned too often in the task description.
Posting date: 22.12.2021, Starting date: 01.02.2022, Job grade: Specialist II-III, Working time: full-time, Contract type: permanent
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