Company Description
Winergy, is a global leading manufacturer of wind turbine gearboxes and generators, based in Elgin, Illinois. Wind turbine is an alternate or renewable green energy source. Winergy currently has four locations – HQ in Germany, plants/offices in Elgin, Illinois, India and China. Winergy is a $150M+ manufacturing and service company, rapidly growing in size and expects to grow for several years at double-digit rates. With global customers like GE, Vestas, Siemens, Acciona, Suzlon and other renewable energy leaders. Winergy is recruiting top talent for rapid growth to work in "green collar" industry.
Siemens is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace.
For more information please visit www.usa.siemens.com
Job Description
Internal responsibilities
- take over gear box responsibility after approved prototype test run
- Optimization of serial production gear units
- Contact person for questions from production
- Contact person for questions from quality department
- Process qualification
- Implementation for other material or components
- Liaison with central engineering in Germany
- design improvement
- cost reduction projects
- assisting in localization projects
- Owner of local Engineering change notice process
- Represent Winergy at customer meetings (OEM’s and end-users) and at work related conferences
- Write technical papers
Customer responsibilities
-continuous customer support
- Case specific engineering response
- Implementation of new customer requirements
- Project management of customer requirement
Service responsibilities
- Failure analysis
- Inspection report
- Contact person for questions from service departments
General Requirements
- Engineering degree in mechanical engineering required
- 2 – 3 years experience in power transmission equipment (service or application engineering), preferably with gear units
- Preferably 2+ years of experience with repairing power transmission equipment (combustion engines, gear boxes, heavy industrial equipment, repairs of large automotive equipment trucks, cranes, tanks, or similar)
- Knowledge of metric system including tolerances
- Able to read complex technical drawings
- Able to work independently and within a tight time frame
- Preferably certified as a E.I.T. and pursuing P.E. license
- Able to travel nationally and internationally for app. 15% of the year
- Represent Winergy at customer meetings (OEM’s and end-users) and at work related conferences
- Write technical papers
- Excellent knowledge of writing skills in English and preferably German
- Able to work at heights (300+ ft) required
- Knowledge of Microsoft word, excel, project etc.
