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Wind Energy Engineer

Design underground or overhead wind farm collector systems and prepare and develop site specifications.

Annual openings

236

Median wage

$132,590

Typical education

Bachelor's degree

Growth 2026–2032

+8%

Median wage source: Colorado BLS OEWS (2025).

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Typical education

Bachelor's degree

Credential requirement

A Professional Engineer license is highly valued in the Energy industry.

Work experience

This can be an entry-level role so no experience is required.

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Automation exposure

Low exposure

Tasks here lean on judgement and people skills that are hard to automate.

A typical day

  1. Create or maintain wind farm layouts, schematics, or other visual documentation for wind farms.
  2. Recommend process or infrastructure changes to improve wind turbine performance, reduce operational costs, or comply with regulations.
  3. Create models to optimize the layout of wind farm access roads, crane pads, crane paths, collection systems, substations, switchyards, or transmission lines.
  4. Provide engineering technical support to designers of prototype wind turbines.
  5. Investigate experimental wind turbines or wind turbine technologies for properties such as aerodynamics, production, noise, and load.
  6. Develop active control algorithms, electronics, software, electromechanical, or electrohydraulic systems for wind turbines.
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