MILLINOCKET – Town Council Chairman Wallace Paul is among a half-dozen Brookfield Renewable Power Inc. workers whose jobs will likely move to Massachusetts under a nationwide company consolidation plan, officials said Wednesday.

A system operator who helps control the company’s New England hydroelectric power generation operations, Paul said he plans to make the move when it happens. Six to eight jobs, out of about 38, will be relocated from the company’s Central Street offices as part of the plan, said David Preble, Brookfield’s general manager of system control.

No relocation dates have been set, although the move is expected to occur over the next 11/2 years.

Company officials have been discussing the move with workers who might be affected since around Christmas, Paul said.

“They very generously started talking to us about what the plans are, so the move is right in its infancy,” Paul said.

The move is part of the company’s plan to establish its U.S. operating headquarters in Marlborough, Mass., although system operators such as Paul might actually go to a different location in that area, Preble said.

The company plans to create at least 100 jobs at the headquarters during the next 18 months while also making new investments in hydropower, wind and other clean technologies.

“We’ve chosen to locate our new U.S. headquarters in Massachusetts because of the broad base of forward-thinking energy companies and research organizations that are located [there],” Kim Osmars, chief operating officer of Brookfield Renewable Power’s U.S. operations, said in a statement.

Brookfield Renewable Power’s Marlborough office will house the executive, accounting and finance departments for the company’s U.S. operations.

Brookfield controls 21 power stations and 68 hydro units in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire from its Central Street office.

Other moves involving the company’s Maine operations are not planned, Preble said.

Paul said he had planned to remain chairman until the move made that impossible. He received 1,083 votes, besting fellow winner and Councilor David Cyr, who had 715, in the November election. Paul has been council chairman since May 25. He replaced David Nelson, who left town for a job in Milwaukee early last summer.

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