Wind Energy Engineers
Design underground or overhead wind farm collector systems and prepare and develop site specifications.
Most important skills
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Mathematics
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Active Listening
- Writing
- Speaking
- Complex Problem Solving
Key knowledge
- Engineering and Technology
- Mathematics
- Design
- Physics
- English Language
- Computers and Electronics
- Administration and Management
- Customer and Personal Service
What the work involves
- Recommend process or infrastructure changes to improve wind turbine performance, reduce operational costs, or comply with regulations.
- Create or maintain wind farm layouts, schematics, or other visual documentation for wind farms.
- Create models to optimize the layout of wind farm access roads, crane pads, crane paths, collection systems, substations, switchyards, or transmission lines.
- Write reports to document wind farm collector system test results.
- Oversee the work activities of wind farm consultants or subcontractors.
- Investigate experimental wind turbines or wind turbine technologies for properties such as aerodynamics, production, noise, and load.
- Test wind turbine equipment to determine effects of stress or fatigue.
- Test wind turbine components, using mechanical or electronic testing equipment.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Realistic, Investigative, Conventional.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- Bachelor's Degree (69.6% of respondents)
- Related experience
- Over 8 years, up to and including 10 years (25.9%)
- On-the-job training
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months (37%)
- Preparation level
- O*NET job zone 4: Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
- Licensing
- Not yet verified. Check your state licensing board.
Check before planning
- Licensing for Wind Energy Engineers is not yet verified for any state: check the state licensing board before planning.
- Projection education uses SOC 17-2199 (detailed_parent); it may describe a broader group.
Limits
- Distributions show what current workers or occupational experts report, not legal minimums.
- Requirements vary by employer and state; time to qualify is not estimated.
Source: O*NET 31.0 Database (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections · dataset 2026.10.8 · method e3-qualification-1.0.0
Work environment
How the typical conditions of this occupation compare with 911 occupations in O*NET (very low = the lowest fifth).
Levels are relative. Most occupations involve a lot of contact with people, for example, so “very low” can still mean regular contact; the last column shows what workers actually reported.
| Condition | Level | Compared with other occupations | Most common answer (O*NET survey) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact with others | Very low | Lower on contact with others than 89% of occupations compared | 32% of surveyed respondents chose “Contact with others most of the time” |
| Dealing with the public | Low | Lower on dealing with the public than 67% of occupations compared | 32% of surveyed respondents chose “Fairly important” |
| Teamwork | Low | Lower on teamwork than 66% of occupations compared | 42% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Freedom to make decisions | Moderate | Lower on freedom to make decisions than 59% of occupations compared | 45% of surveyed respondents chose “Some freedom” |
| Time pressure | Low | Lower on time pressure than 61% of occupations compared | 41% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a month or more but not every week” |
| Conflict situations | Low | Lower on conflict situations than 77% of occupations compared | 52% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a year or more but not every month” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | Very low | Lower on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 90% of occupations compared | 53% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a year or more but not every month” |
| Consequence of error | Low | Lower on consequence of error than 67% of occupations compared | 35% of surveyed respondents chose “Serious” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: low
- Conflict situations: low
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: very low
- Consequence of error: low
Each part is shown on its own. There is no combined stress score, and conditions vary by employer and role.
Full answer distributions
Contact with others
- No contact with others: 0%
- Occasional contact with others: 15.53%
- Contact with others about half the time: 26.07%
- Contact with others most of the time: 32.33%
- Constant contact with others: 26.07%
n = 37, Incumbent 07/2012
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 7.1%
- Fairly important: 32.49%
- Important: 29.24%
- Very important: 16.99%
- Extremely important: 14.18%
n = 37, Incumbent 07/2012
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 0%
- Fairly important: 4.43%
- Important: 27.7%
- Very important: 25.8%
- Extremely important: 42.07%
n = 36, Incumbent 07/2012
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 0%
- Very little freedom: 6.89%
- Limited freedom: 15.36%
- Some freedom: 44.94%
- A lot of freedom: 32.81%
n = 37, Incumbent 07/2012
Time pressure
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 2.29%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 40.75%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 38.71%
- Every day: 18.25%
n = 37, Incumbent 07/2012
Conflict situations
- Never: 9.57%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 52.23%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 28.61%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 4.98%
- Every day: 4.6%
n = 37, Incumbent 07/2012
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 19.64%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 53.15%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 27.21%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 0%
- Every day: 0%
n = 37, Incumbent 07/2012
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 22.03%
- Fairly serious: 21.58%
- Serious: 34.86%
- Very serious: 13.57%
- Extremely serious: 7.96%
n = 37, Incumbent 07/2012
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