AI exposure: Wind Energy Operations Managers
Manage wind field operations, including personnel, maintenance activities, financial activities, and planning.
Reading this score
computed40.1% of this occupation's weighted task load is exposed, which puts Wind Energy Operations Managers at the 71th percentile of 923 occupations. The capability is largely there. Its average task scores 2.6 out of 4 on what a current system can produce, and the frictions that hold other jobs in place are comparatively weak here.
What holds the line here is context. Across this occupation's 16 tasks it averages 2.16 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work depends on knowledge the model cannot hold. Much of this job runs on things that were never written down: what this particular organisation does, what happened last week, what the person across the table actually meant. That context is the barrier, and it erodes as systems are given more access.
The most exposed thing this job does is Track and maintain records for wind operations, at 66.7%. The least is Manage warranty repair or replacement services, at 10.0%. A gap of 56.7% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.
Within management occupations, this one is less exposed than the median of 41.4% across the group's 56 roles, with 30 scoring higher. Being in an exposed family does not make a particular job exposed, and the reverse holds too.
What would move this score. Of 16 tasks, 11 are currently banded exposed, 2 assisted and 3 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take cheaper ways to verify output, since the cost of checking is currently doing more to hold this work in place than the cost of producing it. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.
Task by task
16 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Track and maintain records for wind operations, such as site performance, downtime events, parts usage, or substation events. | 66.7% | 33.3% | 0.0% | 4.20 | exposed |
| Maintain operations records, such as work orders, site inspection forms, or other documentation. | 66.7% | 33.3% | 0.0% | 4.02 | exposed |
| Monitor and maintain records of daily facility operations. | 66.7% | 33.3% | 0.0% | 3.90 | exposed |
| Prepare wind field operational budgets. | 55.0% | 20.0% | 25.0% | 4.09 | exposed |
| Provide technical support to wind field customers, employees, or subcontractors. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 4.01 | exposed |
| Estimate costs associated with operations, including repairs or preventive maintenance. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.99 | exposed |
| Order parts, tools, or equipment needed to maintain, restore, or improve wind field operations. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.87 | exposed |
| Develop processes or procedures for wind operations, including transitioning from construction to commercial operations. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.55 | exposed |
| Recruit or select wind operations employees, contractors, or subcontractors. | 40.0% | 35.0% | 25.0% | 4.01 | exposed |
| Establish goals, objectives, or priorities for wind field operations. | 40.0% | 35.0% | 25.0% | 3.88 | exposed |
| Train or coordinate the training of employees in operations, safety, environmental issues, or technical issues. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 4.27 | exposed |
| Review, negotiate, or approve wind farm contracts. | 23.3% | 26.7% | 50.0% | 3.66 | assisted |
| Oversee the maintenance of wind field equipment or structures, such as towers, transformers, electrical collector systems, roadways, or other site assets. | 20.0% | 30.0% | 50.0% | 4.12 | assisted |
| Supervise employees or subcontractors to ensure quality of work or adherence to safety regulations or policies. | 11.7% | 13.3% | 75.0% | 4.51 | untouched |
| Develop relationships and communicate with customers, site managers, developers, land owners, authorities, utility representatives, or residents. | 11.7% | 13.3% | 75.0% | 4.04 | untouched |
| Manage warranty repair or replacement services. | 10.0% | 15.0% | 75.0% | 3.61 | untouched |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.
Where the score comes from
judgedEvery task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.
| Dimension | Mean | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Capability | 2.62 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 0.38 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 0.97 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 1.38 | 0-3 |
| Context | 2.16 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.50 | 0-3 |
What this means in practice
Where most of a role's weighted task load is exposed, the work that survives is usually the part of the job nobody wrote into the job description: deciding what should be produced rather than producing it, and being answerable for the result. The tasks lowest on this page are a better guide to where to spend your time than any general advice about the future of work.
Occupations either side of this one
The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.
Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.