Commissioning Manager
Qcells EPC · Ankeny, IA · 4 days ago
RemoteRemoteProject ManagementFull-time
Essential Job Function & Responsibilities
- Review contracts, subcontracts, and project drawings to ensure contracted deliverables are understood, met, and align with internal commissioning requisites.
- Manage Commissioning Scopes across multiple projects, to include creating site-specific commissioning schedules, plans, testing documents and start-up procedures.
- Execute, maintain, and enforce Qcells Safety Procedures and Protocols.
- Cookordination and performance of commissioning activities, providing daily project status reports.
- Engage in daily/weekly interactions with peer departments, subcontractors, equipment vendors, and customer entities.
- Preparation of plans at beginning of projects for receiving, storing, and managing materials, PPE, and tools as required.
- Manage and provide training to junior commissioning technicians, to include performing electrical testing and troubleshooting.
- Maintain commissioning deliverables, logs, equipment checklists, and LOTO logs.
- Cookordination and performance of energization, start-up and troubleshooting of substations and commissioned field equipment, to include generating methods of procedures.
- Able to manage time and work priorities independently.
- Work cross departmentally to ensure the commissioning teams have all necessary tools to safely and efficiently perform commissioning services.
- Regular attendance in accordance with company's attendance policy and supervisory assignment, is an essential job duty requirement for this position.
- Perform other duties and special projects, as assigned by Management.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of commissioning or electrical experience in renewable energy.
- Experience and ability to lead remote teams.
- Experience and ability to effectively communicate with all key stakeholders throughout the organization (Engineering, Construction, Contracting, Leadership), key vendors and clients.
- OSHA 30 Certification.
- NFPA 70.E Certification.
- Practical and applicable knowledge of the electrical requirements of a utility-scale PV system, to include substation and PV field components, testing requirements and test equipment used.
- Practical and applicable knowledge of Commissioning & Electrical Standards (NETA, IEEE, IEC, ANSI, NEC, NERC).
- High understanding of SCADA infrastructure.
- Understanding of relay testing and commissioning processes.
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office Suite.
- Flexible schedule and willingness to travel when needed.
- Project Site Requirements: Ability to work outdoors, exposed to the elements. Will sit, stand, walk short distances, and climb stairs on an occasional basis.
Preferred Qualifications
- Electrical Engineering Degree or degree of equivalent applicability.
- NETA Level I, II, or III Certification or certification of equivalent applicability.
- Inverter Manufacturer Troubleshooting Training.