Career Details
11-9199.10 - Wind Energy Development Managers
Lead or manage the development and evaluation of potential wind energy business opportunities, including environmental studies, permitting, and proposals. May also manage construction of projects.
Key Facts

Tasks

Core
- Supervise the work of subcontractors or consultants to ensure quality and conformance to specifications or budgets.
- Prepare requests for proposals (RFPs) for wind project construction or equipment acquisition.
- Manage site assessments or environmental studies for wind fields.
- Lead or support negotiations involving tax agreements or abatements, power purchase agreements, land use, or interconnection agreements.
- Update schedules, estimates, forecasts, or budgets for wind projects.
- Review or evaluate proposals or bids to make recommendations regarding awarding of contracts.
- Provide verbal or written project status reports to project teams, management, subcontractors, customers, or owners.
- Review civil design, engineering, or construction technical documentation to ensure compliance with applicable government or industrial codes, standards, requirements, or regulations.
- Provide technical support for the design, construction, or commissioning of wind farm projects.
- Prepare wind project documentation, including diagrams or layouts.
- Manage wind project costs to stay within budget limits.
- Develop scope of work for wind project functions, such as design, site assessment, environmental studies, surveying, or field support services.
- Coordinate or direct development, energy assessment, engineering, or construction activities to ensure that wind project needs and objectives are met.
- Prepare or assist in the preparation of applications for environmental, building, or other required permits.
- Create wind energy project plans, including project scope, goals, tasks, resources, schedules, costs, contingencies, or other project information.
Knowledge

- 82%Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- 76%Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- 75%Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
- 73%Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
- 68%Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
- 67%Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- 67%Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
- 66%Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- 61%Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- 60%Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
- 59%Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
- 59%Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
- 59%Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
- 58%Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
- 57%Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
- 53%Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
- 53%Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
- 53%Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- 52%Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
- 50%Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
- 50%Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes.
Tools

- Electronic temperature sensors
- Soil samplers
- Cup anemometers
- Propeller anemometers
- Recording anemometers
- Barometric pressure sensors
- Pyranometers
- Wind vanes
- Portable meteorological stations
- Laptop computers
- Desktop computers
- Personal computers
- Dataloggers
- Digital still cameras
- Digital video cameras
- Handheld global positioning system GPS units
Technology

- Microsoft ProjectHOT
- Oracle Primavera Systems
- Microsoft OfficeHOT
- Microsoft VisioHOT
- Microsoft WordHOT
- Microsoft PowerPointHOT
- Microsoft ExcelHOT
- Autodesk AutoCADHOT
- Web browser software
- Microsoft OutlookHOT
- Web conferencing software
- ESRI ArcGIS softwareHOT
Certifications

- Project Management Professional4 Campus Blvd., Newtown Square, PA 19073-3299
- Certified Renewable Energy Professional4025 Pleasantdale Rd., Suite 420, Atlanta, GA 30340
- TS: Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2010One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399
- Energy Risk Professional111 Town Square Place, 14th Floor Jersey City, NJ 07310
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