Wind Plant Manager

Avangrid; Trimont (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Avangrid seeks a Wind Plant Manager to oversee day-to-day wind power plant operations and maintenance, ensuring adherence to prudent practices and operating budgets. You will coordinate outages with interconnect entities and manage shipping, scheduling, and reporting.

Responsibilities include leading safety programs, supervising crews, implementing capital projects, and evaluating performance. Ideal candidates have power industry experience and strong technical and leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Four year college degree or technical school certificate; or 5 years of related experience or power industry training; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated experience in power plant operations and maintenance.
• Ability to climb 80 meter steel towers on a daily basis to perform maintenance.
• Weight must not exceed 285 lbs (excluding equipment/gear) when performing job related tasks.
• Advanced computer skills utilizing word processing, spreadsheets, email, facility control, management and reporting systems, including the use of computerized diagnostic and troubleshooting tools.
• Ability to work around low and medium voltage and at times during extremely adverse weather conditions.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Knowledge of heavy equipment required for facility maintenance with a working knowledge of crane and rigging requirements.
• Valid driver's license.

Responsibilities

• Ensures strict management and compliance of all company and project environmental, health and safety programs.
• Responsible to ensure crew receives periodic safety training and conducts periodic safety assessments.
• Negotiates and administers 3rd party contracts.
• Administers warranties.
• Manages implementation of capital improvement programs and retrofits.
• Manage crews performing operations, maintenance and warranty activities of all wind plant equipment, ensures compliance with manufacturers' requirements.
• Performs staffing activities, counseling, coaching, training and corrective actions of subordinate employees.
• Prepares annual budget and monthly profit and loss reporting.
• Reviews and approves root cause analyses of major failures.
• Prepares performance evaluations per company instructions and guidelines.
• Ensures all relevant internal controls are followed and develops new controls as needed

Skills

Power plant operations

Advanced computer skills

Crane and rigging

Heavy equipment knowledge

Driver's license

Troubleshooting tools

Safety training

CMMS experience

Education

Bachelor/technical degree or power industry training

5 years related experience

Tools

CMMS

Diagnostic tools

Facility control systems

Job description

Job Summary

The Wind Plant Manager manages day to day operations and maintenance of a utility scale wind power plant. This includes development and compliance with an operating budget, outage coordination and scheduling with the interconnect entity, scheduling coordinator and trading desk, oversight of operations and maintenance to ensure work is carried out using Prudent Utility Practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensures strict management and compliance of all company and project environmental, health and safety programs.
• Responsible to ensure crew receives periodic safety training and conducts periodic safety assessments.
• Negotiates and administers 3rd party contracts.
• Administers warranties.
• Manages implementation of capital improvement programs and retrofits.
• Manage crews performing operations, maintenance and warranty activities of all wind plant equipment, ensures compliance with manufacturers' requirements.
• Performs staffing activities, counseling, coaching, training and corrective actions of subordinate employees.
• Prepares annual budget and monthly profit and loss reporting.
• Reviews and approves root cause analyses of major failures.
• Prepares performance evaluations per company instructions and guidelines.
• Ensures all relevant internal controls are followed and develops new controls as needed

Required Qualifications

• Four year college degree or technical school certificate; or 5 years of related experience or power industry training; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated experience in power plant operations and maintenance.
• Ability to climb 80 meter steel towers on a daily basis to perform maintenance.
• Weight must not exceed 285 lbs (excluding equipment/gear) when performing job related tasks.
• Advanced computer skills utilizing word processing, spreadsheets, email, facility control, management and reporting systems, including the use of computerized diagnostic and troubleshooting tools.
• Ability to work around low and medium voltage and at times during extremely adverse weather conditions.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Knowledge of heavy equipment required for facility maintenance with a working knowledge of crane and rigging requirements.
• Valid driver's license.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in wind plant operations and wind turbine experience.
• Experience in high voltage maintenance and switching.
• Experience establishing and improving preventative maintenance programs.
• Experience working with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).

• Additional Success Factors
• Ability to navigate and succeed in a highly matrixed reporting structure, preferably at an international company.
• Strong prioritization and multi-tasking skills with the ability to operate in a complex, rapidly changing business environment with typically tight schedules and demanding targets.
• Ability to foster and participate in a productive team environment by establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with subordinates, co-workers, managers, customers, contractors, and vendors.
• Effectively provides and receives information orally in individual and group situations.
• Written expression is clear, concise, and conveys the desired message.
• Ability to analyze project risks and proactively identify solutions with a flexible, creative, and solution-focused outlook on problem solving.

Competencies

• Growth & Continuous Improvement
• Initiative & Change
• Focused on Results
• Customer Centric (internal and/or external)
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Leadership (people managers/leaders)

Disclaimer

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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.

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Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country.

Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.

Avangrid employees may also be assigned a NERC Reliability Standards compliance role supporting Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and/or Operations and Planning (O&P) responsibilities. This is applicable to employees that will work in electric transmission, operations, and cyber security business areas in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate business areas. NERC Reliability Standards compliance roles and responsibilities may include additional access protections, training, audit engagement, and required evidence retention, and will be communicated by the employee’s management.

Job Posting End Date

October-23-2026