AECOM
Senior/Principal Wind Energy Yield Analyst
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Senior/Principal Wind Energy Yield Analyst
Senior or Principal Wind Energy Yield Analyst
Company Description
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Job Description
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We are seeking a highly skilled Senior or Principal Wind Energy Yield Analyst to lead energy assessment activities across our onshore and/or offshore wind portfolio. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering bank-grade energy yield estimates, driving methodological improvement, and providing strategic technical input throughout the project lifecycle—from early-stage prospecting through financial close and operational optimisation.
The role involves acting as a subject-matter expert, collaborating closely with development, engineering, commercial, and finance teams to ensure robust and defensible yield assumptions that will underpin our investment and development decisions.
Key Responsibilities
Energy Yield & Resource Assessment
- Lead the development of long-term energy yield assessments (P50/P90/P99) for onshore and offshore wind projects.
- Perform wind resource modelling using industry-standard software, such as WAsP, WindFarmer, OpenWind, and WindPRO.
- Oversee met mast, LiDAR, SoDAR, and SCADA data analysis, ensuring rigorous quality control and uncertainty quantification.
- Conduct terrain, atmospheric, wake, and turbine performance assessments to refine energy yield calculations.
Data Management & Analysis
- Manage large datasets from measurement campaigns and operational assets.
- Implement best-practice statistical analysis, MCP techniques, uncertainty analysis, and climate adjustment methodologies.
- Support the design and optimisation of measurement campaigns.
Project Development Support
- Provide technical input into site selection, turbine micro-siting, layout optimisation, and design constraints.
- Produce high-quality reporting for due diligence, investment committees, lenders, and external partners.
- Evaluate turbine technologies, power curves, and OEM data to ensure accurate modelling assumptions.
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Technical Leadership & Collaboration
- Mentor junior analysts and contribute to capability building within the team.
- Ensure methodological consistency and lead continuous improvement of internal tools, workflows, and modelling practices.
- Represent AECOM in technical discussions with developers, OEMs, consultants, financiers, and external stakeholders.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with development, engineering, environmental, and commercial teams to align yield assumptions with broader project strategy.
- Provide ongoing assessment of risks and opportunities influencing project economics.
Your role presents a fantastic opportunity to develop your technical and project management skills through project work, with promising career progression as the team continues to grow.
Employee Benefits
At AECOM, we prioritise your well-being and career growth, ensuring a balance between flexibility and development:
- Access to career development opportunities
- A flexible hybrid working model
- Technical practice networks
- AECOM University
- Volunteering days
- Competitive compensation
- Customised benefits tailored to your lifestyle
Qualifications
Are you ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
We’re looking for candidates with:
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Renewable Energy, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Proven experience in wind energy yield assessment (onshore, offshore, or both).
- Advanced proficiency in resource modelling tools: WAsP, WindFarmer, OpenWind, WindPro, CFD tools.
- Strong statistical analysis skills and deep understanding of MCP methods and uncertainty frameworks.
- Extensive experience with met mast and LiDAR data analysis, campaign design, and validation.
- An in-depth understanding of turbine technologies, wake effects, and performance analytics.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of translating technical findings for non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience in producing bankable reports for lenders, investors, or due diligence processes.
- Offshore wind-specific modelling experience (including complex wake environments, floating LiDAR).
- Proficiency in languages like Python, MATLAB, R for workflow automation.
- Knowledge of operational performance analysis and SCADA-based energy assessments.
- Familiarity with ESG or grid integration considerations for wind assets.
- Experience with solar energy yield assessments.
- Analytical, detail-oriented nature with a commitment to quality and accuracy.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Proactive, collaborative mindset, comfortable working in cross-functional teams.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and priorities.
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Additional Information
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About AECOM
AECOM is the world's leading infrastructure consulting firm, providing professional services across the entire design and management lifecycle. We partner with public and private clients to transform sectors like transportation, buildings, water, new energy, and the environment. AECOM’s success is rooted in our unrivaled technical expertise, digital innovation, culture of equity and diversity, and commitment to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) excellence.
AECOM achieved revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. We deliver sustainable legacies for generations to come and engage globally through our webpage aecom.com and social media channels @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
We offer a flexible model allowing you the autonomy to excel in your role:
- Hybrid work options enabling you to work from various locations including AECOM offices, remote locations, and client sites.
- A dynamic environment that champions integrity, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
AECOM fosters respectful and inclusive workplaces where every individual can contribute their unique talents to achieve transformative results for our clients.
Our -wide array of compensation, benefits, and well-being programs are designed to meet the diverse needs of employees and their families. We support your growth because at AECOM, your success is our shared success.
Join AECOM—a globally recognised infrastructure firm with opportunities to develop your skills, engage in industry-leading projects, and enjoy remarkable flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential and will support your ambition.
A Disability Confident Employer, we offer interviews to candidates with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the job’s essential criteria. For interview arrangements, use this email: ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com. Your information is handled in accordance with EEO guidelines.
ReqID: J10151481
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