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Engineers, All Other
Job Data
- Typical education: Bachelor's Degree
Salary Range
- New York State: $67,750-$134,740 per year
- Capital Region: $78,020-$136,180 per year
- Central New York: $77,160-$130,030 per year
- Finger Lakes: $64,020-$117,960 per year
- Hudson Valley: $69,190-$146,910 per year
- Long Island: $77,500-$155,080 per year
- Mohawk Valley: $54,380-$125,770 per year
- New York City: $70,150-$139,710 per year
- North Country: $53,990-$107,500 per year
- Southern Tier: $57,080-$120,370 per year
- Western New York: $61,390-$106,850 per year
Typical Tasks
- 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.
- Provide engineering technical support to designers of prototype wind turbines.
- Investigate experimental wind turbines or wind turbine technologies for properties such as aerodynamics, production, noise, and load.