WTG Main Bearings Specialist

Imagine a future where your mechanical expertise protects critical offshore wind assets and helps the world run even more on sustainable energy.

Join us in this role where you’ll handle major integrity cases, root cause analysis and support critical downtime events. You’ll be a key player within the mechanical area and contribute to driving innovation aimed at improving asset health and performance.

Welcome to Generation Engineering and Execution
You’ll be part of WTG, Structures and Blades where you, together with your colleagues, will pioneer and push the boundaries for offshore operations further. There are three different teams with experts within their field, (WTG Electrical, Mechanical, Blades and Structures) who deliver technical expertise and product development to our regions. We support our entire portfolio with new solutions, sustaining us as the global offshore champion.

As a team, we are passionate about what we do. We collaborate across, continuously learn and improve, empower each other, and have fun while making the world run even more on sustainable energy.

You’ll play an important role in:

• root cause analysis and failure mode, effects and mitigating solution
• providing technical support for major incidents (integrity and safety) and warranty cases
• product management of drivetrain retrofits and upgrades
• industry collaboration and development of suppliers in collaboration with key parts of the value chain incl. collaboration with the OEMs
• cooperating with Diagnostics functions on field failures and progression and reporting and presenting to Asset Owners and Joint Venture Partners
• engaging with Engineering on future turbine platforms to include field learning

To succeed in the role, you:

• demonstrate a proactive approach to your work
• have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical or marine engineering or similar
• have experience working with wind turbine large size main bearings preferably in direct drive wind turbines
• have experience in failure mode identification on bearings, including evaluation of endoscope inspection results, and disassembly inspection of damaged components.
• have experience working in an international setting, and speak and write English fluently
• bolted connection experience is a benefit

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accommodation@orsted.com.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.

Vacancy details:

Application deadline:17 May 2026

Career track: Subject Expert

Career band: 11