GAUTAM R
Chennai
Overview
1825
1825
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Engineer - Tower Technologies
VESTAS WIND TECHNOLOGY INDIA PVT LTD
CHENNAI, India
05.202 - 04.2026
- Technical Lead for alternate tower concepts for Onshore Towers.
- Responsible for concept selection and maturity of alternate tower concepts, adhering to APQP4W.
- Technical Liaison for a joint collaboration between Vestas and a tower vendor to develop a concrete hybrid tower.
- Instrumental in the development of the Project Development Agreement for vendors.
- Writing Technical Purchase Specification (TPS) for Concrete Hybrid Towers for Vestas.
- Responsible for scoping and planning the Gates and Technical Reviews for Alternate tower projects.
- Responsible for resource and sprint planning for the Concrete Hybrid Tower project.
- Conducting 'Steer-Co meetings' with all the stakeholders from both sides.
- Carried out eigen frequency calculations for Cable Stay Tower.
Lead Engineer - FEA,
LM wind power - GE Renewables
Banglore, Karnataka
09.2022 - 04.2024
- Transportation solutions, responsible for blade transportation frame structures.
- Playing Project Manager role "blade transport" activity, involving scoping of work , Requirement Specification , Interface Control Document and plant co-ordination.
- Hands on with route survey , resource planning & contractor management.
- Initiate & perform DFMEA & come up with CTQ's based on SQDC approach.
- Responsible for lifting tool process and validation for blade handling.
- To perform blade stacking frame calculations for blade sea transport, as per IMO standards.
- To perform Blade interface clamping calculations for Road , sea and dolly transportation.
- Conducted risk assessments, Kaizen workshop and implementation in Blade interface clamping.
Solution Designer - Offshore Generators: FEA
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
Bengaluru
06.2017 - 09.2022
- Responsible for Segment calculations for offshore - Generator team
- Posted in Denmark as Team coordinator for 9 months to Offshore - Generator FE team - INDIA
- Assisting project scoping and resource allocation
- Quality keeper, for overall FE generator operations
- Formulated the procedure and methodology of Segment calculations (Segment Analysis Guidelines)
- Load selection and coordinating with Load & controls for components
- Performing design iterations in collaboration with design team (1 patent in process - Magnet Modules design)
- Part of meetings with certifier to address Verification comments for Component Certification
- Performing Extreme, Fatigue & transportation calculations for all joints in the generator
Senior Engineer, FEA Consultant
L&T-TS Ltd / (Deputed to) VESTAS R&D -INDIA
Chennai, India
09.2011 - 06.2017
- Performed FE analysis for Nacelle components , Tower internals and generating FE reports for Certification
- Executed Static (Extreme & Fatigue) calculations for Tower internals & Nacelle components for 8MW turbines.
- Created certification reports, VCS comments, and action items updated for DNV GL certification.
- Provided inputs for cost out projects, both material and design changes for tower platforms and other internal components
- Mentored new joiners in the team and bringing them up to speed
- Quality keeper, conducting peer / Final reviews
Field Engineer
Larsen & Toubro Construction Equipment Business
Madurai, india
05.2005 - 07.2007
- Service area manager (Madurai region)
- Responsible for 300+ hydraulic equipment maintenance & Troubleshooting
- Expert in OLSS and CLSS hydraulic circuit systems
- Responsible for structural maintenance and repairs
- Assessing structural cracks and providing solutions
Education
Bachelor's - Mechanical engineering
Anna University
Chennai, TN01-2011
Diploma - Mechanical Engineering
SRM Polytechnic College
Chennai, TN01-2005
Skills
- Ansys Workbench
- Ansys classic
- Hypermesh
- Vendor Management
- Project Management
Certification
- PRINCE 2 - Foundation
- APQP4W
- Yellow belt - Lean Six Sigma
References
- Satish Kumar T - SGRE - Manager - +91 95381 51114
- Muthupandi P - Copenhagen Offshore Partners - +45 52157749
Professional Summary
- 15+ years of FEA experience, in Wind Energy industry with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, good hands-on in Direct drive generators & structural components, Tower primary structure and secondary structures.
- Project management & Contractor management for Wind turbine components.
- In-depth knowledge in Nacelle , Tower components validation & certification.
- Good experience in international regulation & standards (EN, DNV & GL, IMO) for structural analysis.
- Good understanding of large structure behavior and failures.
- Expert in Non-linear static calculations, good hands-on in dynamic FE simulations.
- Worked on tower - secondary structures platforms, ladder connections, anchor points, lift suspension beams for DNVGL certification.
Accomplishments
- Nominated for best employee award for the year 2019 at SGRE
- 2 Patent idea submissions [ Spring loaded Magnet Module (SGRE) ; Flexible Oil Tank Mounting (Vestas) ]
- Cost out calculation & implementation in Tower internals
Timeline
Lead Engineer - FEA,
LM wind power - GE Renewables
09.2022 - 04.2024
Solution Designer - Offshore Generators: FEA
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
06.2017 - 09.2022
Senior Engineer, FEA Consultant
L&T-TS Ltd / (Deputed to) VESTAS R&D -INDIA
09.2011 - 06.2017
Field Engineer
Larsen & Toubro Construction Equipment Business
05.2005 - 07.2007
Lead Engineer - Tower Technologies
VESTAS WIND TECHNOLOGY INDIA PVT LTD
05.202 - 04.2026
Bachelor's - Mechanical engineering
Anna University
Diploma - Mechanical Engineering
SRM Polytechnic College