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.
Most important skills
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Writing
- Speaking
- Active Listening
- Coordination
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Monitoring
Key knowledge
- Administration and Management
- English Language
- Building and Construction
- Engineering and Technology
- Economics and Accounting
- Customer and Personal Service
- Design
- Mathematics
What the work involves
- 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.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Enterprising, Conventional, Investigative.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- Bachelor's Degree (66.9% of respondents)
- Related experience
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years (33.6%)
- On-the-job training
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months (22.6%)
- Preparation level
- O*NET job zone 4: Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
- Licensing
- Not yet verified. Check your state licensing board.
Check before planning
- Licensing for Wind Energy Development Managers is not yet verified for any state: check the state licensing board before planning.
- Projection education uses SOC 11-9199 (detailed_parent); it may describe a broader group.
Limits
- Distributions show what current workers or occupational experts report, not legal minimums.
- Requirements vary by employer and state; time to qualify is not estimated.
Source: O*NET 31.0 Database (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections · dataset 2026.10.8 · method e3-qualification-1.0.0
Work environment
How the typical conditions of this occupation compare with 911 occupations in O*NET (very low = the lowest fifth).
Levels are relative. Most occupations involve a lot of contact with people, for example, so “very low” can still mean regular contact; the last column shows what workers actually reported.
| Condition | Level | Compared with other occupations | Most common answer (O*NET survey) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact with others | Low | Lower on contact with others than 76% of occupations compared | 36% of surveyed respondents chose “Contact with others most of the time” |
| Dealing with the public | High | Higher on dealing with the public than 65% of occupations compared | 47% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Teamwork | Moderate | Higher on teamwork than 56% of occupations compared | 67% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Freedom to make decisions | High | Higher on freedom to make decisions than 76% of occupations compared | 52% of surveyed respondents chose “Some freedom” |
| Time pressure | Low | Lower on time pressure than 76% of occupations compared | 37% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a month or more but not every week” |
| Conflict situations | High | Higher on conflict situations than 67% of occupations compared | 42% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | Low | Lower on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 68% of occupations compared | 56% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a month or more but not every week” |
| Consequence of error | Low | Lower on consequence of error than 79% of occupations compared | 30% of surveyed respondents chose “Not serious at all” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: low
- Conflict situations: high
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: low
- Consequence of error: low
Each part is shown on its own. There is no combined stress score, and conditions vary by employer and role.
Full answer distributions
Contact with others
- No contact with others: 0%
- Occasional contact with others: 5.39%
- Contact with others about half the time: 23.9%
- Contact with others most of the time: 35.84%
- Constant contact with others: 34.87%
n = 19, Incumbent 07/2016
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 5.39%
- Fairly important: 23.13%
- Important: 5.73%
- Very important: 18.29%
- Extremely important: 47.46%
n = 19, Incumbent 07/2016
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 0%
- Fairly important: 14.81%
- Important: 2.58%
- Very important: 15.17%
- Extremely important: 67.44%
n = 19, Incumbent 07/2016
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 0%
- Very little freedom: 0%
- Limited freedom: 2.58%
- Some freedom: 51.53%
- A lot of freedom: 45.88%
n = 19, Incumbent 07/2016
Time pressure
- Never: 15.72%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 0%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 37.42%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 12.19%
- Every day: 34.68%
n = 18, Incumbent 07/2016
Conflict situations
- Never: 20.2%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 5.17%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 26.41%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 42.14%
- Every day: 6.08%
n = 19, Incumbent 07/2016
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 20.2%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 20.11%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 55.99%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 0%
- Every day: 3.7%
n = 19, Incumbent 07/2016
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 30.41%
- Fairly serious: 28.43%
- Serious: 25.65%
- Very serious: 6.85%
- Extremely serious: 8.66%
n = 19, Incumbent 07/2016
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