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Management & Leadership · Updated Aug 2026

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.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
71/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
57/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence83/100
Task coverage88%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Supervise the work of subcontractors or consultants to ensure quality and conformance to specifications or budgets.Medium
74
Coordinate or direct development, energy assessment, engineering, or construction activities to ensure that wind project needs and objectives are met.High
71
Create wind energy project plans, including project scope, goals, tasks, resources, schedules, costs, contingencies, or other project information.Medium
71
Provide verbal or written project status reports to project teams, management, subcontractors, customers, or owners.Medium
73
Update schedules, estimates, forecasts, or budgets for wind projects.Medium
72
Develop scope of work for wind project functions, such as design, site assessment, environmental studies, surveying, or field support services.Medium
71
Prepare wind project documentation, including diagrams or layouts.Medium
73
Manage site assessments or environmental studies for wind fields.Medium
73
Review civil design, engineering, or construction technical documentation to ensure compliance with applicable government or industrial codes, standards, requirements, or regulations.Medium
75
Provide technical support for the design, construction, or commissioning of wind farm projects.Medium
74
Lead or support negotiations involving tax agreements or abatements, power purchase agreements, land use, or interconnection agreements.High
56
Review or evaluate proposals or bids to make recommendations regarding awarding of contracts.Medium
73
Prepare or assist in the preparation of applications for environmental, building, or other required permits.Medium
74
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Review civil design, engineering, or construction technical documentation to ensure compliance with applicable government or industrial codes, standards, requirements, or regulations.75
  2. Supervise the work of subcontractors or consultants to ensure quality and conformance to specifications or budgets.74
  3. Provide technical support for the design, construction, or commissioning of wind farm projects.74
  4. Prepare or assist in the preparation of applications for environmental, building, or other required permits.74
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Coordinate or direct development, energy assessment, engineering, or construction activities to ensure that wind project needs and objectives are met.01
  2. Create wind energy project plans, including project scope, goals, tasks, resources, schedules, costs, contingencies, or other project information.02
  3. Update schedules, estimates, forecasts, or budgets for wind projects.03
  4. Develop scope of work for wind project functions, such as design, site assessment, environmental studies, surveying, or field support services.04
  5. Prepare wind project documentation, including diagrams or layouts.05
Where else this work leads

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency71
Physical dependency32
Adoption pressure47
Labour-market resilience59
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence83/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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