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A resume for a Wind Energy Engineer needs to show the work itself: design underground or overhead wind farm collector systems and prepare and develop site specifications. Day to day that means work like this: create or maintain wind farm layouts, schematics, or other visual documentation for wind farms; recommend process or infrastructure changes to improve wind turbine performance, reduce operational costs, or comply with regulations. Recruiters and applicant tracking systems both read for the tasks and tools this role actually involves, so the strongest resume names them in your own experience rather than describing the job in the abstract. Below are the tasks O*NET records for this occupation, the software and tools it uses, the titles it is advertised under, and the skills worth naming if they are genuinely yours.

Also advertised as

The same job is posted under many titles. Searching only your own job title hides most of the openings you could apply to.

  • Engineer
  • Project Engineer
  • Utility Engineer
  • Wind Energy Consultant
  • Turbine Measurements Engineer
  • Wind Turbine Design Engineer
  • SCADA Engineer
  • Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
  • Turbine Engineer
  • Wind Farm Designer
  • Wind Farm Electrical Systems Designer
  • Wind Farm Engineer
  • Wind Power Specialist
  • Wind Turbine Controls Engineer
  • Wind Turbine Electrical Engineer
  • Wind Turbine Engineer
  • Wind Turbine Mechanical Engineer
  • Wind Turbine Performance Engineer

What this work actually involves

Tasks recorded for this occupation, in O*NET's words. If your experience covers one of these, it belongs on your resume in your own words.

  • Create or maintain wind farm layouts, schematics, or other visual documentation for wind farms.
  • Recommend process or infrastructure changes to improve wind turbine performance, reduce operational costs, or comply with regulations.
  • Create models to optimize the layout of wind farm access roads, crane pads, crane paths, collection systems, substations, switchyards, or transmission lines.
  • Provide engineering technical support to designers of prototype wind turbines.
  • Investigate experimental wind turbines or wind turbine technologies for properties such as aerodynamics, production, noise, and load.
  • Develop active control algorithms, electronics, software, electromechanical, or electrohydraulic systems for wind turbines.
  • Develop specifications for wind technology components, such as gearboxes, blades, generators, frequency converters, or pad transformers.
  • Test wind turbine components, using mechanical or electronic testing equipment.
  • Oversee the work activities of wind farm consultants or subcontractors.
  • Test wind turbine equipment to determine effects of stress or fatigue.
  • Monitor wind farm construction to ensure compliance with regulatory standards or environmental requirements.
  • Direct balance of plant (BOP) construction, generator installation, testing, commissioning, or supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) to ensure compliance with specifications.

16 tasks are recorded in total; these are the most central.

Example bullets for this role

Built from this occupation's own tasks. The brackets stay empty on purpose: we will not invent a number for you, and a fabricated metric is the fastest way to lose an interview you had already won.

  • Create or maintain wind farm layouts, schematics, or other visual documentation for wind farms, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].
  • Recommend process or infrastructure changes to improve wind turbine performance, reduce operational costs, or comply with regulations, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].
  • Create models to optimize the layout of wind farm access roads, crane pads, crane paths, collection systems, substations, switchyards, or transmission lines, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].
  • Provide engineering technical support to designers of prototype wind turbines, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].

Software used in this role

Recorded for this occupation by O*NET. An applicant tracking system matches the exact product name, so write the tool the way the posting writes it.

  • Amazon Web Services AWS software
  • ANSYS simulation software
  • Apache Ant
  • Apache Subversion SVN
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Bentley MicroStation
  • C#
  • C++
  • Computational fluid dynamics CFD software
  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
  • DIgSILENT PowerFactory
  • EMD International WindPRO
  • Enterprise resource planning ERP software
  • ESRI ArcGIS software

65 software entries are recorded in total.

Tools and equipment

The physical equipment this occupation is recorded as using. Worth naming when a posting asks for it by name.

  • Barometric pressure sensors
  • Cup anemometers
  • Dataloggers
  • Desktop computers
  • Digital still cameras
  • Digital video cameras
  • Electronic temperature sensors
  • Handheld global positioning system GPS units
  • Laptop computers
  • Light detection and ranging LIDAR systems
  • Mainframe computers
  • Portable meteorological stations

Skills an ATS reads for

Worth naming only if they are genuinely yours. Keyword overlap is one input to a resume's score, not a verdict.

  • C++
  • Python
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • ANSYS simulation
  • Apache Ant

What this job rates as most important

O*NET rates every skill for importance to this occupation. These are the highest rated, in order.

  1. 01Critical Thinking
  2. 02Reading Comprehension
  3. 03Judgment and Decision Making
  4. 04Mathematics
  5. 05Active Listening
  6. 06Complex Problem Solving
  7. 07Speaking
  8. 08Systems Analysis
  9. 09Writing
  10. 10Operations Analysis

Knowledge areas

The subject knowledge this occupation draws on, rated by importance.

  • Engineering and Technology
  • Mathematics
  • Design
  • Physics
  • English Language
  • Computers and Electronics
  • Administration and Management
  • Customer and Personal Service

What qualifications people in this job have

From O*NET's survey of people doing this work. This is what postholders reported, not a requirement any single employer sets.

  • 70%Bachelor's Degree
  • 14%Master's Degree
  • 6%Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Baccalaureate degree but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees carrying the title of Master.

What level this role is pitched at

O*NET places this occupation in “Considerable Preparation Needed”. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Common questions

What does a Wind Energy Engineer do?
Design underground or overhead wind farm collector systems and prepare and develop site specifications. Day to day that includes work like create or maintain wind farm layouts, schematics, or other visual documentation for wind farms and Recommend process or infrastructure changes to improve wind turbine performance, reduce operational costs, or comply with regulations.
What skills should a Wind Energy Engineer put on a resume?
O*NET rates Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, Judgment and Decision Making, Mathematics, and Active Listening among the most important skills for this occupation. Name the ones that are genuinely yours and show where you used them. A resume that lists skills you do not have is weaker than one that lists fewer.
What software should a Wind Energy Engineer list?
Software recorded for this occupation includes Amazon Web Services AWS software, ANSYS simulation software, Apache Ant, Apache Subversion SVN, and Autodesk AutoCAD. Applicant tracking systems match on the exact product name, so write the tool as the posting writes it rather than describing it in general terms.
What other job titles cover Wind Energy Engineer work?
O*NET records 18 titles for this occupation, including Engineer, Project Engineer, Utility Engineer, and Wind Energy Consultant. Searching only your own job title hides most of the openings you could apply to.
What qualifications does a Wind Energy Engineer need?
In O*NET's survey of people doing this job, 70% reported their level of education as "Bachelor's Degree". That is what current postholders reported, not a requirement any single employer sets.
Will this resume pass an ATS for a Wind Energy Engineer role?
No tool outside an employer can tell you how that employer's system is configured, including ours. What you can control is that the resume parses cleanly, names the work in the words the posting uses, and does not claim anything you cannot back up.

Related roles

Occupations O*NET records as closest to this one, and worth looking at if this search is not moving.

What this page cannot tell you

  • No tool outside an employer can tell you how that employer’s ATS is configured, including ours.
  • This page makes no claim about pay, demand or how many people hold this job. O*NET does not publish that here and we will not estimate it.
  • Keyword overlap is one input to a resume’s score, not a verdict on you. A resume that names skills you do not have is worse than one that names fewer.

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