Utility Solar O&M Manager

About the role

Join us to drive the right power forward and make clean energy the natural choice for all!

Key Responsibilities

• Safety & Compliance: Ensure compliance with local and federal safety and environmental regulations, promote and guarantee a safe environment and culture for employees, contractors, and the public.
• Operations: Manage a full range of service providers including O&M, LTSA, SCADA, and potentially construction. Oversee Preventative and Corrective Maintenance of O&M Contractors, investigate the feasibility of deploying Predictive Maintenance to renewable assets.
• Obligation Management: Work with utilities and O&M Contractors to align projects and programs with PPA & IA obligations. Monitoring: Continuously monitor plant performance to ensure operational excellence and compliance.
• Communication: Act as the bridge between site-level operations and corporate management, communicating site issues, drafting internal and external reports, and Utility Compliance: Proactively ensure all contractors perform work aligned with Good Utility Practices, coordinate outages with utilities.
• Reporting: Generate and distribute periodic operational reports (monthly/annual) for leadership, commenting on KPI’s to support decision making.
• Strategy: Develop and implement industry leading standards and programs to efficiently maintain and improve site performance.
• Budget: Coordinate with Business Development, Finance, and Valuations teams to propose operational budgets for existing and potential future sites.
• Spare Parts: Combine experience in operations with OEM recommendations to identify critical spare parts for future projects while periodically analyzing failure rates at existing sites.

Qualifications and Skills

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Energy), other technical discipline, or demonstrated professional experience & aptitude.
• Experience: 7+ years of experience in Renewable Energy, preferrably focused on operations, asset management, and/or commissioning.
• Travel requirements: This role will require occasional travel to renewable sites for commissioning oversight, integration of newly acquired sites, and critical operational needs.
• Technical Asset Management: Demonstrate critical thinking in understanding, explaining, and resolving highly impactful technical operational issues.
• Data: Utilize and analyze site data to influence decisions for long term operational benefit.
• Contract Proficiency: Thoroughly understand PPA, IA, LTSA, and EPC contracts to ensure performance and compliance.
• Contract Management: Ability to manage contractors to uphold obligations within time, cost, and quality requirements.
• Communication: Strong ability to communicate technical PV & BESS concepts to non-technical stakeholders and remote teams, both verbal and written.
• Domain Knowledge: A working knowledge of industry standards, best practices, AHJ and NERC coordination and reporting.
• Project Management: Ability to manage many projects simultaneously under minimal supervision, self prioritize work in line with leadership expectations.
• Program Management: Ability to develop and maintain operational programs for existing sites as well as integrating new sites into the portfolio.
• Collaboration: Work with the Engineering and Construction organization to allow for successful project completion and turnover to the Operations Team.
• Due Diligence: Work with the Business Development and M&A organizations to analyze potential future sites and forecast long term operational expenditures accordingly.