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Wind Energy Operations Managers

  • Bright Outlook
  • Rapid Growth
  • Numerous Job Openings

Manage wind field operations, including personnel, maintenance activities, financial activities, and planning.

What you’d do

  • Supervise employees or subcontractors to ensure quality of work or adherence to safety regulations or policies.
  • Train or coordinate the training of employees in operations, safety, environmental issues, or technical issues.
  • Track and maintain records for wind operations, such as site performance, downtime events, parts usage, or substation events.
  • Oversee the maintenance of wind field equipment or structures, such as towers, transformers, electrical collector systems, roadways, or other site assets.
  • Prepare wind field operational budgets.
  • Develop relationships and communicate with customers, site managers, developers, land owners, authorities, utility representatives, or residents.
  • Maintain operations records, such as work orders, site inspection forms, or other documentation.
  • Recruit or select wind operations employees, contractors, or subcontractors.

Skills that matter

  • Active Listening
  • Critical Thinking
  • Monitoring
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Speaking
  • Management of Personnel Resources

How to get there

Medium preparation: usually vocational school, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree

Also called

  • Site Manager
  • Wind Operations Supervisor
  • Wind Plant Manager
  • Wind Site Manager
  • Service Site Manager
  • Turbine Site Manager

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