Engineering
Wind Energy Engineers
Design underground or overhead wind farm collector systems and prepare and develop site specifications.
Median salary
$117,750
Typical range
$63k – $184k
Job outlook
+2% (about average)
AI exposure
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Education
Typical entry: Bachelor's degree
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Wind Energy Engineers Intern
Internship
$36,000
~4 mos to advance
Junior Wind Energy Engineers
Entry / Junior
$62,840
~2 yrs to advance
Wind Energy Engineers
Established
$117,750
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Wind Energy Engineers
Senior
$150,630
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Key skills
A typical 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.
Fields of study
Any field
Top colleges for Engineering
Explore all- Massachusetts Institute of Technology4% admit · $124,000 grad pay
- Stanford University4% admit · $122,000 grad pay
- University of California, Berkeley11% admit · $97,000 grad pay
- Georgia Institute of Technology16% admit · $99,000 grad pay
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign45% admit · $80,000 grad pay
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