Operations Manager

Service Operations LATAM is responsible for the operation and maintenance (O&M) of wind turbines, ensuring optimal performance, availability, and reliability of wind farms across the region. The team focuses on delivering safe, efficient, and high-quality field service operations, while ensuring customer satisfaction, operational excellence, safety, and financial performance.


The department manages end-to-end service delivery, including customer relationships, escalations, and continuous improvement initiatives across multiple countries. It collaborates closely with sales, engineering, and global support teams to ensure contractual commitments are met and to enhance overall fleet performance and long-term asset reliability.

Responsabilities:

• Manage end-to-end service operations for wind farms in Chile and Peru, ensuring turbine availability and performance targets
• Ensure compliance with service contracts, including SLA commitments related to uptime, response times, and maintenance execution
• Act as primary escalation point for critical turbine failures, major incidents, or underperformance cases
• Manage and develop field service teams (technicians, supervisors, planners), ensuring safety and technical excellence
• Build a workplace culture centered on safety and maintain full alignment with HSE standards and zero-harm objectives
• Oversee preventive and corrective maintenance activities, optimizing planning and execution efficiency
• Ensure financial performance of service contracts (revenue, cost control, margins, forecasting accuracy)
• Build and maintain close working relationships with customers (asset owners, operators), acting as trusted operational partner
• Manage spare parts strategy, logistics, and resource planning to minimize downtime
• Monitor fleet performance (availability, reliability, failure trends) and implement improvement actions
• Collaborate with engineering and technical support teams to resolve complex technical issues
• Support contract renewals, service upgrades, and lifecycle solutions

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial or related)
• Experience in operations, maintenance, or service delivery in wind energy or heavy industry (power generation, utilities, mining, oil & gas)
• Experience managing field service operations and technical teams
• Practical knowledge of wind turbine operations and maintenance
• Experience managing service contracts, KPIs, and operational performance
• Financial acumen (budgeting, cost control, contract margins)
• Solid HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) background
• Fluent in Spanish and English
• Availability to travel to wind farms as required
  Location: México City

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About Vestas

Vestas is the energy industry's global partner on sustainable energy solutions. We are specialised in designing, manufacturing, installing, and servicing wind turbines, both onshore and offshore.
Across the globe, we have installed more wind power than anyone else. We consider ourselves pioneers within the industry, as we continuously aim to design new solutions and technologies to create a more sustainable future for all of us. With more than 185 GW of wind power installed worldwide and 40+ years of experience in wind energy, we have an unmatched track record demonstrating our expertise within the field.
With 30,000 employees globally, we are a diverse team united by a common goal: to power the solution - today, tomorrow, and far into the future.
Vestas promotes a diverse workforce which embraces all social identities and is free of any discrimination. We commit to create and sustain an environment that acknowledges and harvests different experiences, skills, and perspectives. We also aim to give everyone equal access to opportunity.
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