About This Career

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

This career is part of the Energy cluster.

A person in this career:

• Supervises employees or subcontractors to ensure quality of work or adherence to safety regulations or policies.
• Trains or coordinates the training of employees in operations, safety, environmental issues, or technical issues.
• Tracks and maintains records for wind operations, such as site performance, downtime events, parts usage, or substation events.
• Oversees the maintenance of wind field equipment or structures, such as towers, transformers, electrical collector systems, roadways, or other site assets.
• Prepares wind field operational budgets.
• Develops relationships and communicates with customers, site managers, developers, land owners, authorities, utility representatives, or residents.
• Maintains operations records, such as work orders, site inspection forms, or other documentation.
• Recruits or selects wind operations employees, contractors, or subcontractors.
• Provides technical support to wind field customers, employees, or subcontractors.
• Estimates costs associated with operations, including repairs or preventive maintenance.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

People who do this job report that:

• You would sit most of the time. There's some walking and standing. You may have to lift and carry things like books, papers or tools weighing 10 lbs. or less.
• Work in this occupation involves use of protective items such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, a hard hat, or personal flotation devices
• Exposed to conditions such as high voltage electricity, combustibles, explosives, and chemicals more than once a month
• Work in this occupation requires being inside most of the time
• Work in this occupation requires being outside most of the time
• Work at heights above 8 feet more than once a month on structures such as ladders, poles, scaffolding, and catwalks

Working in this career involves (physical activities):

• Seeing clearly at a distance
• Seeing clearly up close
• Speaking clearly enough to be able to be understood by others
• Identifying and understanding the speech of another person

Work Hours and Travel

• Irregular hours
• Weekend work