Wind Operations Manager

As a Wind Operations Manager, you manage the day-to-day operations of wind energy assets. You're overseeing technicians, coordinating maintenance, monitoring turbine performance, managing vendors, and ensuring wind assets generate power reliably. It's operational leadership in the renewable energy sector.

Your day involves performance monitoring and coordination. You might review overnight availability and production, then troubleshoot a down turbine, then coordinate maintenance scheduling, then work with the OEM on a warranty issue, then report on operational performance. Wind operations requires technical understanding combined with operational management skills.

The hardest part is maximizing availability while managing costs. Every hour a turbine is down is lost revenue. But maintenance costs money too. You're constantly optimizing the trade-off between spending on maintenance and capturing production. The people who thrive here are analytically minded about asset performance and can manage distributed teams effectively.