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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.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Coordinate or direct development, energy assessment, engineering, or construction activities to ensure that wind project needs and objectives are met.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Manage wind project costs to stay within budget limits.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Lead or support negotiations involving tax agreements or abatements, power purchase agreements, land use, or interconnection agreements.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Create wind energy project plans, including project scope, goals, tasks, resources, schedules, costs, contingencies, or other project information.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Supervise the work of subcontractors or consultants to ensure quality and conformance to specifications or budgets.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Develop scope of work for wind project functions, such as design, site assessment, environmental studies, surveying, or field support services.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Provide verbal or written project status reports to project teams, management, subcontractors, customers, or owners.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Update schedules, estimates, forecasts, or budgets for wind projects.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Prepare or assist in the preparation of applications for environmental, building, or other required permits.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Review or evaluate proposals or bids to make recommendations regarding awarding of contracts.People already use AI for this at work
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss7%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
53%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 49% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.