High Voltage Technician Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day site operations, maintenance activities, and contractor oversight for the balance of plant.
• Promote and enforce a strong safety culture and compliance with OSHA, NFPA 70E, NESC, company policies, and utility requirements.
• Perform and oversee preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance on HV/MV equipment, substations, switchgear, transformers, breakers, relays and other balance-of-plant equipment.
• Execute and coordinate switching activities, LOTO procedures, outage planning, and restoration efforts.
• Support troubleshooting through field testing, SCADA review, relay event analysis, inspections, and data collection.
• Coverage of vendors and contractors performing specialized testing, maintenance, and construction activities.
• Aid in annual budgets, forecasting, purchasing, inventory management, and cost control initiatives.
• Manage work orders, inspections, maintenance records, switching logs, and reporting through Maximo or similar CMMS platforms.
• Support regulatory compliance, environmental requirements, hazardous waste management, and NERC-related maintenance documentation.
• Serve as the primary site leadership resource in the absence of the Plant Manager and provide mentoring and development for technicians.
• Maintain positive relationships with landowners, utilities, customers, contractors, and community stakeholders.
• Support construction, commissioning, retrofits, and major maintenance projects as required.

Qualifications

Required:

• Strong knowledge of balance-of-plant systems of BESS and Solar renewable plants.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working in substations, including control rooms and energized MV and HV environments.
• Strong communication, organizational, troubleshooting, and analytical skills.
• Ability to read and follow one-lines, schematics, protection drawings, electrical prints and switching procedures.
• Practical experience performing HV/MV maintenance, switching support, and field-testing activities (13.8 kV and above).
• Strong functional understanding of substations, transformers, breakers, relays, and HV equipment operation.
• Experience working in control houses and supporting troubleshooting through SCADA data review and relay event reporting.
• Experience using CMMS/work management systems (Maximo required).
• Working knowledge of NERC-related maintenance and documentation requirements.
• Strong understanding of NFPA 70E, OSHA, NESC, and high-voltage safety practices.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to work in field-based environments.

Preferred:

• Utility-qualified or QEW high-voltage switching authorization.
• Experience supporting transmission or gen-tie infrastructure.
• Electrical trade school, technical certification, or military electrical background.
• Experience using CMMS systems such as Maximo.