Wind Site Operations Manager

Wind Site Operations Manager - Degelis (3 hours from Quebec)

As a Wind Site Operations Manager, you will be responsible for the operations of a service site, ensuring optimized performance, safety, and customer satisfaction. In this role, you will lead a team to promote the organization’s core values and ensure optimal performance in their respective functions. Your key responsibilities will include leadership in health and safety, operational efficiency, financial performance, and client account management. You will also be responsible for resolving technical issues, managing budgets, and maintaining optimal wind turbine performance.

Responsibilities

• Foster a health- and safety-focused environment on-site, encouraging continuous improvement in safety performance
• Develop and engage your team to ensure the efficient operation and maintenance of wind farms
• Build strong partnerships with clients to ensure contractual commitments are met
• Manage costs rigorously to meet service contract budget targets
• Plan preventive maintenance and failure analysis activities to optimize turbine performance

Skills

• Strong management skills, including financial management and organizational performance assessment
• Experience in coaching and team engagement
• Knowledge of health and safety programs, practices, and procedures
• Highly motivated, with a strong sense of responsibility and the ability to solve problems and continuously improve processes
• Experience in budget and project management
• Ability to negotiate and maintain high levels of customer satisfaction

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of management experience in a related service sector

• Availability to work on-site and travel (to various wind farms/turbines) as needed

• Technical training is an asset (knowledge of hydraulic systems or heavy rotating equipment)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

• Valid driver’s license and passport

• Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that are met by an employee, to effectively perform the essential functions of this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable team members with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Ability to stand and walk for prolonged periods of time; hearing ability to use telephones, close range radios or related device; visual acuity including depth perception, field of vision and the ability to distinguish between colors; ability to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl as needed, as well as hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity; ability to climb stairs and vertical ladders to heights of 60 to 100 meters and at times supervise work in confined space environments; ability to lift, push, pull, carry items up to, but not more than 50 lbs. in weight; ability to observe training and obtain certification in required safety programs that include LOTO, Electrical Qualification, Fall Arrest & High Angle Rescue & Emergency Decent, and Confined Space; ability to successfully participate in all training courses, including controlled descent practical exercises; due to design parameters of fall protection equipment, the combined weight of prospective employee, required PPE and gear shall not exceed 300 lbs. Required PPE and gear may weigh up to 40 lbs.

• Salary and benefits

• Salary: 115,000-130,000 CAD

• Sign-on bonus: 3300 CAD

• Company car included

• We’re proud to offer

• Supplemental Health Benefits for you and your family

• Paid time off, holidays, and parental leave

• Opportunities for career progression and pay-for-certification growth

• RRSP with company match, life insurance, and disability coverage

• An established safety culture and inclusive, collaborative workplace