Architecture & Engineering
Wind Energy Engineers
Also called: Engineer, Project Engineer, Turbine Measurements Engineer, Utility Engineer
US median pay
$122,930
per year, 2025
Job growth 2025–35
+3.7%
about average or slower
Openings a year (US)
8,800
166,700 employed
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree
Preparation 4/5 · Considerable preparation
What this job is
Design underground or overhead wind farm collector systems and prepare and develop site specifications.
What they do day to day
- 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.
Skills and knowledge that matter most
Skills
- Judgment and Decision Making3.5/5
- Systems Analysis3.4/5
- Complex Problem Solving3.4/5
- Systems Evaluation3.2/5
- Operations Analysis3.2/5
- Social Perceptiveness3.1/5
- Persuasion3.0/5
- Coordination3.0/5
Knowledge
- Engineering and Technology4.8/5
- Mathematics4.4/5
- Design4.4/5
- Physics4.2/5
- English Language4.1/5
- Computers and Electronics4.0/5
Importance rated by people working in the job (1 = not important, 5 = extremely important).
Education and preparation
Preparation level 4 of 5 — Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree and several years of related experience.
Typical entry education (BLS): Bachelor's degree.
Highest education of people in this job:
- Bachelor's degree70%
- Master's degree14%
Who this job suits
Mostly Realistic
Hands-on work with tools, machines, plants or animals
Investigative
Ideas, research and solving problems
Conventional
Organising data, details and procedures
Based on the Holland (RIASEC) interest profile for this occupation.