Management · Holland code ECR
Wind Energy Operations Managers
Manage wind field operations, including personnel, maintenance activities, financial activities, and planning.
Also called: Site Manager, Wind Operations Supervisor, Wind Plant Manager, Wind Site Manager, Service Site Manager, Turbine Site Manager, Wind Facilities Manager, Wind Plant Operations Manager.
O*NET 11-9199.09
At a glance
- US median annual pay
- $141,900
- Middle half earn $102,880 to $186,300. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
- Most common education
- Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree
- 40% of workers surveyed by O*NET report this level.
- Preparation needed
- Job Zone 3 of 5
- Medium preparation. Zone 1 is little or none; zone 5 is graduate-level.
What the work involves
The tasks workers in this occupation rate as most important, from the O*NET survey.
- 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 and knowledge it leans on
Skills
- Active Listening4.0 / 5
- Reading Comprehension3.9 / 5
- Speaking3.9 / 5
- Critical Thinking3.9 / 5
- Monitoring3.9 / 5
- Writing3.8 / 5
Knowledge areas
- Administration and Management4.1 / 5
- Mechanical3.9 / 5
- Engineering and Technology3.6 / 5
- Public Safety and Security3.5 / 5
- Personnel and Human Resources3.5 / 5
- Administrative3.3 / 5
Importance ratings on O*NET’s 1 to 5 scale. Higher means the occupation depends on it more.
Who tends to enjoy it
How strongly this occupation draws on each of the six Holland interest types, which is the same profile the career interests test compares you against.
- Realistic53
- Investigative34
- Artistic0
- Social22
- Enterprising91
- Conventional71
The same work abroad
Other countries classify jobs differently, so these are the closest matches through the international ISCO-08 standard, not exact equivalents.
European occupation titles (ESCO)
- power plant manager · DE Kraftwerksmeister/Kraftwerksmeisterin · FR directeur de centrale électrique/directrice de centrale électrique
- hydropower engineer · DE Wasserkraftingenieur/Wasserkraftingenieurin · FR ingénieur en hydroélectricité/ingénieure en hydroélectricité
- energy systems engineer · DE Ingenieur Energiesysteme/Ingenieurin Energiesysteme · FR ingénieur procédés énergie/ingénieure procédés énergie
- renewable energy engineer · DE Ingenieur Erneuerbare Energien/Ingenieurin Erneuerbare Energien · FR ingénieur R&D en énergies renouvelables/ingénieure R&D en énergies renouvelables
Closest UK occupation groups (SOC 2020)
- Quantity surveyors (2453)45,300 employed
- Quality assurance technicians (3115)36,100 employed
- Science, engineering and production technicians n.e.c. (3119)38,000 employed
Employment is the UK Annual Population Survey for April 2025 to March 2026, all workers in the group, which can be broader than this one occupation.
Pay across Europe, for the whole group
Median annual earnings of all employees in “Professionals”. This is the broad ISCO group this occupation falls in, not the occupation itself, so treat it as context for the wage level, not as a salary for this job.
| Country | Median pay |
|---|---|
| Belgium | €61,714 |
| Germany | €59,529 |
| Ireland | €56,877 |
| Austria | €55,374 |
| Netherlands | €53,595 |
| Sweden | €43,567 |
| France | €41,515 |
| Spain | €35,735 |
| Italy | €33,649 |
| Portugal | €26,072 |
| Poland | €14,380 |
Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey, businesses with ten or more employees outside public administration, in euro and not adjusted for the cost of living. Reference years differ between sources: the US, Japan and Europe figures on this page come from different survey years, so compare them as rough levels, not to the euro or yen.
Exposure to AI
This occupation sits in the higher third of the 774 occupations scored, with an exposure score of +0.96. The scores are standardized across those occupations, so 0 is the average and a score of 1 is about one standard deviation above it.
Our note on reading it: the dataset links AI applications to the abilities that occupations require, so the score reflects overlap between the two. It is a comparison between occupations, not a forecast about jobs. It does not say whether exposure means tasks are replaced or workers get more done with the tools, and it says little about one employer or one role.
Source: Felten, E., Raj, M., & Seamans, R. (2021). Occupational, industry, and geographic exposure to artificial intelligence: A novel dataset and its potential uses. Strategic Management Journal, 42(12), 2195-2217. Matched to this page by 6-digit SOC code (11-9199).
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