Specialist, Blades and Materials (Aarhus)

Job summary

This role focuses on designing innovative structural composite solutions for wind turbine blades, ensuring manufacturability, quality, and automation. The position involves collaboration across various engineering disciplines to bring new concepts to industrialization.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in mechanical, structural, composite engineering, or a related field.
• Several years of experience in structural design, particularly with composite structures.
• Strong understanding of composite manufacturing processes and design for manufacturing/quality principles.
• Familiarity with automation technologies and their interaction with structural and manufacturing needs.
• Experience in the wind industry or large-scale composite manufacturing is preferred, especially with wind turbine blade processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop structural concepts for composite blades focusing on manufacturability and process robustness.
• Integrate structural design with manufacturing principles for scalable and automation-ready solutions.
• Evaluate new manufacturing processes and assess their impact on design.
• Identify automation opportunities to enhance repeatability, quality, and throughput.
• Collaborate with structural, materials, manufacturing, automation, and quality teams, as well as external partners.

Skills

• Solutions-driven approach with strong problem-solving abilities.
• Holistic thinking across structural performance, manufacturing feasibility, automation potential, and quality robustness.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills across disciplines.
• Organized and capable of leading projects from concept to early industrialization.
• Fluent in English.

Education

• Master's degree in a relevant engineering field.

Tools

• Familiarity with advanced manufacturing processes and automation technologies.