Senior Blade Structure Engineer

Senior Blade Structure Engineer | Global Blade Innovation Center About the Global Blade Innovation Center

Envision Energy’s Global Blade Innovation Center (GBIC) was established in 2015 to build a world‑class, in‑house blade design capability. Engineers from industry‑leading OEMs, national laboratories, and top graduate programs have collaborated to create a state‑of‑the‑art design capability from the ground up. Envision’s in‑house blade designs and technologies have disrupted global markets and delivered significant reductions in Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) alongside measurable expansion of Envision’s market share.

As a Senior Blade Structure Engineer, you will operate across the full span of composite blade engineering: from hands‑on field failure investigation through to the development of next‑generation design technologies and product‑level solutions. You will own the most technically complex challenges the business unit faces, with a mandate not only to diagnose and close field problems, but to translate that physical understanding into better designs, improved materials application, and new engineering capabilities that advance the product.

You will serve as a key technical voice on the team’s hardest problems and bring the cross‑functional influence to drive solutions across design, production, and operations.

To be successful in this role you will be expected to bring the judgment to frame the right problem, the physical intuition built through hands‑on field investigation, and the cross‑functional influence required to turn technical insight into business action.

• Lead development of composite design technologies and methodologies that advance blade structural performance, durability, and manufacturability, from concept through validation and production integration.
• Develop and apply multi‑fidelity engineering tools and models to evaluate, optimize, and improve blade structural designs at both component and product level.
• Characterize and apply composite material behavior, including damage progression, fatigue response, and failure mechanisms, to drive design improvements informed by physical evidence.
• Identify product‑level structural challenges and lead engineering solutions that address root causes, not just symptoms, spanning laminate design, joint architecture, sandwich construction, and manufacturing methods.
• Collaborate with aerodynamics, loads, controls, and manufacturing disciplines to ensure structural designs are integrated, producible, and field proven.

• Lead hands‑on assessment of damaged and failed composite wind turbine blades in factory and field environments. This is a core, non‑delegable part of the role.
• Own root cause analysis for the business unit’s most challenging structural failure modes, with current priority on root joint structural fatigue; sandwich composite damage mechanisms including core cracking and laminate‑core interface delamination; and manufacturing defect characterization and prediction.
• Define and implement corrective and preventive solutions that close the loop between field findings and upstream design, including repair methodologies, design changes, material substitutions, and process improvements.
• Work with blade material and testing teams to validate engineering models and design assumptions against physical evidence from field and factory.
• Communicate findings and recommendations with clarity to engineering, production, and operations stakeholders.

• Apply AI and data‑driven tools to accelerate structural assessment, defect pattern recognition, and failure analysis of workflows.
• Leverage available AI tools to improve the efficiency and consistency of RCA documentation, reporting, and corrective action tracking.
• Maintain engineering rigor in evaluating AI‑assisted outputs. Physical understanding of composite behavior governs not model output alone.

• MS or PhD in Aerospace, Mechanical, Civil Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• 5+ years of professional engineering experience in…