Wind Engineering System Simulation Leader

Essential Responsibilities

• Set the vision and strategic direction for the global System Simulation organization, ensuring alignment with business priorities, product strategy, and customer needs.
• Lead and develop a high-performing global engineering team responsible for predicting wind turbine system behavior, including performance, loads, acoustics, aeroelastics, stability, and operability.
• Establish simulation-driven insights that inform technology development, new product introduction, validation, certification, and fleet support decisions across the full product life cycle.
• Support commercial and sales activities by delivering robust wind resource assessments and product suitability analyses for customer sites and applications.
• Drive engineering excellence that improves turbine availability, reliability, performance, and overall product quality.
• Lead rapid and rigorous resolution of fleet performance and quality issues by using system-level analysis to identify root causes, define corrective actions, and feed lessons learned back into future designs.
• Define and execute a multi-year roadmap for simulation methods, model fidelity, software platforms, and digital engineering capabilities to improve predictive accuracy, speed, and scale.
• Own and evolve the company’s core system simulation software platform, ensuring its long-term development, scalability, and alignment with business needs.
• Partner across engineering, product management, manufacturing, sourcing, services, quality, and commercial teams to improve product performance, reduce cost, and enhance customer outcomes.
• Manage significant operating and investment budgets, prioritizing resources to maximize technical and business impact.
• Champion lean principles, standard work, and continuous improvement to strengthen engineering productivity, quality, and execution.
• Build effective operating mechanisms, reviews, and decision forums to drive execution, accountability, and organizational alignment.
• Build a strong leadership pipeline by recruiting, developing, coaching, and mentoring world-class engineering talent.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative culture grounded in technical excellence, customer focus, and continuous learning.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college in Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent knowledge and experience.
• Extensive engineering experience in a complex technical or industrial environment.
• Significant leadership experience, including direct leadership of technical teams and/or system-level engineering leadership.
• Experience leading cross-functional programs and influencing outcomes across a matrixed global organization.
• Willingness to travel up to 30%.

Desired Characteristics

• Demonstrated success leading global engineering teams and delivering results through others.
• Deep expertise in complex system modeling, simulation, and engineering analysis, ideally in wind, energy, aerospace, automotive, or other highly engineered industrial systems.
• Systems thinker with the ability to evaluate tradeoffs, assess risk, and optimize technical and business outcomes.
• Proven ability to improve processes, implement standard work, and apply lean principles to increase quality and execution effectiveness.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to navigate complexity, set clear direction, and deliver impact over both short- and long-term horizons.
• Effective people leader, coach, and mentor with a track record of building strong teams and developing technical talent.
• Strong influencing skills with demonstrated ability to align stakeholders and drive cross-functional execution.
• Decisive leader who can manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and take ownership of critical issues through resolution.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical topics for a range of audiences, including senior leaders, commercial teams, and customers.
• Strong business acumen and customer focus.