Mid-Level

Wind Field Service Manager

Leading a team of wind-turbine field-service technicians, you own the dispatch, training, safety, and performance of the techs who climb towers and maintain the operating turbines. The senior management layer over the working tech crews.

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Enterprisingleading, persuading
Conventionalorganizing, detail-oriented
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Job markets for Wind Field Service Managers
Employment concentration · ~382 areas
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What it's like

What it's like to be a Wind Field Service Manager

A typical week often involves dispatch oversight, tech coaching, safety leadership, and the steady cadence of operational issues — assigning teams to scheduled and unscheduled work, working through difficult repairs, sitting with techs on training gaps, prepping reports for asset management. You're often the senior field voice when complex repairs or safety situations arise. Tech utilization, safety performance, and repair turnaround are the operating measures.

The harder part is often the physical demands the team faces — tower climbs, weather exposure, and rotating shift work, and the field leader has to maintain crew morale across the punishing conditions. Variance across employers is wide: at major OEMs and operators field-service organizations are structured and well-resourced; at smaller service providers the team runs leaner.

People who tend to thrive here have deep technical fluency, supervisory craft, and the safety discipline that wind work demands. GWO and CMRP credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the remoteness and travel that wind field-service work involves and the after-hours availability for major outages.

AchievementHigh
Working ConditionsAbove avg
RecognitionAbove avg
IndependenceAbove avg
RelationshipsAbove avg
SupportModerate
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Career Paths

Where this role sits in the broader career landscape — and where it can take you.

$239K$179K$119K$60K$0KLower paying387 metro areas, sorted by salary level
All experience levels1
This level's estimated range
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1 BLS OEWS May 2024 covers all Wind Field Service Managers (SOC 11-9199.09), not just this title · BEA RPP 2023
* Top salaries exceed this figure. BLS caps reported wages at ~$240K to protect individual privacy in high-earning roles.
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The Broader Landscape

Roles like this one sit within a broader occupational category. The numbers below reflect that full landscape — helpful for context, but your specific experience will depend on level, specialty, and where you work.

$69K–$228K
Salary Range
10th – 90th percentile
631K
U.S. Employment
+4.5%
10yr Growth
107K
Annual Openings

How this category is changing

$74K$71K$68K$65K$62K201920202021202220232024$62K$74K
BLS OEWS May 2024 · BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034

Skills & Requirements

Active ListeningReading ComprehensionSpeakingMonitoringCritical ThinkingWritingSocial PerceptivenessManagement of Personnel ResourcesPersuasionCoordination
O*NET OnLine · Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Federal data: BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics (May 2024) · BLS Employment Projections · O*NET OnLine
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