Repower Field Operations Manager

Component Repower is a small team that works on large, complex projects on aging wind farms. The team brings together a broad mix of skills in execution leadership, project coordination, project management, and data analytics, encouraging people to collaborate and meet customer needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as the senior on-site leader responsible for coordinating project activities and personnel.
• Establish the temporary project facility, warehouse, yard, and supporting site infrastructure.
• Develop the warehouse and yard layout to support safe and efficient material, tooling, and equipment flow.
• Identify and order required tooling, warehouse equipment, fixtures, and consumables.
• Interface with the landlord and address facility-related issues throughout the project.
• Review and update project parts lists and identify potential material requirements.
• Recommend project manpower levels and required skill sets to the Project Manager.
• Develop the site organization, reporting structure, and field execution support model.
• Coordinate with the Resource Manager to address staffing gaps and arrange personnel backfills.
• Lead on-site customer and vendor coordination.
• Manage site personnel, including time approval, time-off requests, issue escalation, and disciplinary documentation.
• Support and develop Lead Technicians, the Assistant Project Manager, Project Coordinator, Field Engineer, and other site leadership personnel.
• Maintain working knowledge of applicable customer and vendor contractual requirements.
• Identify and document excusable events in accordance with the applicable customer and vendor contracts.
• Maintain and understanding of the current project budget and financials in order to assist with making project decisions and evaluations
• Work with the Project Manager, Project Coordinator, Supervisors, Leads, Assistant Project Manager, and off-site support staff to help complete the project.

QUALIFICATIONS

• High school diploma or equivalent; technical, trade, construction-management, or business-related education.
• Significant experience in wind turbine service, major component replacement, repower, construction, or comparable field operations.
• Demonstrated experience leading personnel, vendors, and contractors in an active project-site environment.
• Working knowledge of wind turbine component replacement activities, tooling, materials, and site logistics.
• Working knowledge of Lockout/Tagout, Job Safety Analysis, incident reporting, and field safety procedures.
• Experience establishing and managing temporary warehouses, yards, facilities, and project infrastructure.
• Ability to review parts lists, identify tooling requirements, and plan consumables and equipment needs.
• Experience in workforce planning, approving employee time, coordinating resources, and escalating personnel issues.
• Ability to interpret and apply customer and vendor contractual requirements during field execution.
• Effective leadership, communication, conflict-management, and crisis-management skills.
• Ability to coordinate effectively with customers, vendors, technicians, supervisors, project management, and remote support functions.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, Procore, work-tracking systems, and project documentation tools.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and make timely field decisions in a changing project environment.
• Willingness and ability to remain on site for the duration of assigned repower projects.

COMPETENCIES

• Experience with MS Office Suite
• Experience with Outlook, Teams, SharePointExperience with Procore and document management principles
• Detail oriented to review documents for completeness
• Detail oriented to compile customer facing documentation packages for project work
• Works effectively on their own
• Collaborates with other departments to deliver project deliverables

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