Our client is a well known renewable energy company with a global footprint who are currently searching for and experienced Solar O&M Manager. The ideal candidate will ideally be an electrical engineer with experience planning maintenance on MW-scale solar plants.
Responsibilities
- Delivering the Solar O&M service to meet the client contractual requirements
- Producing O&M plans in accordance with contract, manufacturer’s requirements and good industry practice
- Identifying maintenance requirements, scheduling resources, safely managing work control and reporting on completed work
- Writing and reviewing RAMS, permits and maintenance procedures
- Day-to-day management of a team of solar PV technicians
- Stock management and procurement of materials
- Managing supplier relationships and equipment warranties
- Liaising with external stakeholders such as DNO and landowners
- Reacting to emergencies, site outages and changing circumstances
- Determining causes of lost production and identifying performance improvement opportunities
- Analysis of maintenance KPIs and implementing strategies to improve these
- Ensuring client invoicing and supplier payment is carried out correctly
- Playing a key part in adopting new sites into the maintenance systems
- Using and maintaining a Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and other quality management tools as necessary
- Achieve and maintain Authorised Person status
- Although office based, this role and will require availability for some weekend on-call duties
Requirements
- Managerial experience with a working knowledge of both financial and commercial elements
- Managing operational Solar Farms
- Central inverter experience
- Excellent communication skills, fluent written and spoken English (essential)
- Able to respond to changing priorities and emergent issues
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Computer skills for writing reports, reporting progress and communicating by email
- Full UK driving licence (essential)
- Health & Safety qualifications (e.g. IOSH, SSSTS, CSCS)
- High Voltage qualifications and authorisations
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