Role

Climate17 are working alongside well-established, UK-based, asset management firm who specialise in the entire project lifecycle, from origination through to operations of renewable energy and power gen assets.

They are searching for an O&M Manager to ensure contractual and statutory compliance for a portfolio of Solar PV and BESS O&M contracts.  The O&M Manager will seek to maximise the production from assets, increase efficiency and achieve a high level of safety performance.

Responsibilities

• Provide the O&M service to meet the project contractual requirements, including the provision of a reactive callout rota, team recruitment, training, and competency.
• Work with internal teams to ensure all staff posses the correct tools and equipment
• Measure maintenance performance metrics and take actions to improve
• Produce maintenance plans
• Schedule resources, safely managing work control, and reporting on completed work
• Ensure compliance with the Safety Rules
• Write and review RAMS, permits and maintenance procedures
• Daily management of a team of engineers, ensuring adherence to safety requirements
• Manage supplier relationships and equipment warranties
• Collaborate with external stakeholders such as DNO and asset owners
• Reacting to emergencies, site outages and changing circumstances
• Acting as the main point of contact for the company O&M service, and providing updates to clients and information for contractual reporting (within specific region)
• P&L responsibilities for the services and contracts under management
• Ensure client invoicing and supplier payment is carried out correctly
• Play an important part in adopting new sites into the maintenance systems
• Used and maintain a Computerised Maintenance Management System

• Qualification in an electrical / electro-mechanical discipline
• ECS Gold Card - Essential
• Previous electrical or multi skilled maintenance experience
• Good IT skills (Word Processing, Outlook, Excel, IP and software for troubleshooting)
• Qualification of working on Site safely
• HV authorised person – AP15/OP40
• Working knowledge of HV/LV power electronics - inverters / converters / Transformers etc.
• Working experience with BESS - preferred
• Previous HVAC training and F-Gas qualification - preferred
• Strong understanding of IT related subjects, CMD, remote desktop connections, networking (subnet, VLANs, static IP/DHCP), MODBUS/TCP protocols - preferred
• C&G2391-5 Test & Inspect or equivalent - preferred