Blade Engineer Temp

Pattern Energy is an independent, fully integrated energy company that develops, constructs, owns and operates renewable energy projects and transmission assets across North America, Canada, and Latin America. The company focuses primarily on wind and transmission with limited investments in other generation technologies.

The Pattern Energy team has a history as one of the top North American renewable energy and transmission providers in the industry. The team is dedicated to delivering the highest value for its customers, partners, financial supporters, and the communities in which it works, while exhibiting a strong commitment to promoting environmental stewardship and corporate responsibility.

Pattern Energy operates in the United States, Canada, and Latin America with offices in San Francisco, Houston, San Diego, New York, Toronto, Boulder, and Puerto Rico. Pattern Energy Group's corporate headquarters are in San Francisco.

The Blade Engineer provides oversight and tracking of blade inspections and repairs across Pattern’s operating fleet, ensuring that all activities are coordinated effectively. This role requires maintaining a comprehensive and accurate database cataloguing every inspection, damage, and repair, as well as providing regular status reports to stakeholders. The Blade Engineer is also responsible for ensuring that all inspections and repairs are performed safely, completed on schedule and within budget, and thoroughly documented to maintain high standards of quality and accountability.

• Maintain a fleet-wide blade inspection and repair database
• Locate and upload historic inspection and repair data not currently in the database
• Ensure all relevant data is added to the database in a timely manner
• Blade Inspection Vendors:
  • Administer blade inspection requirements across Pattern’s fleet, including identification and tracking of blades requiring special inspections beyond the standard requirement.
  • Support scheduling of internal and external blade inspections across Pattern’s operating fleet.
  • Provide day-to-day oversight of inspections, working with site personnel, operations management, and inspection vendors to ensure efficiency and timely completion
• Track and report inspection completion; provide campaign coordination to ensure vendors complete inspections on time and on budget.
• Perform periodic audits of inspection reports to ensure inspections are high quality and damages are reliably identified
• Escalate complex damages to Pattern blade engineering subject matter experts
• Blade Repair Vendor Oversight:
  • Maintain and manage database of all blade damages within Pattern’s operating fleet
  • With blade engineering subject matter experts, prioritize damages for repair based on severity and risk
  • With Operations personnel, coordinate and track blade repair schedules
  • Provide day-to-day coordination of repairs, working with site personnel, operations management, and repair vendors to ensure efficiency and timely completion
  • Provide regular reporting of fleetwide blade repair status
  • Ensure repair reports are received for each repair performed
  • Perform audits of repair reports to ensure high quality repairs and documentation
  • Track and report repair hours and costs for repairs
  • Escalate complex repairs to Pattern blade engineering subject matter experts
• Support initiatives for innovative technology on blade inspections, monitoring for damages, repair techniques, and reliability & performance improvements.
• Proactively communicate when new blade issues appear to have become a systemic problem with the operating fleet.
• Work cooperatively with other discipline engineering leaders in the group to ensure a comprehensive approach to wind turbine operations and maintenance.
• Support Identification, vetting, and onboarding of new inspection and repair vendors as needed

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, civil, or chemical Engineering. Or an individual with 2
-5 years of experience managing wind turbine blade inspections and repairs.

• Ability to plan, prioritize, and support multiple field projects for safe, on-time, on-budget completion
• A level of subject…