Climate17 are working with a global renewable energy business who operate and maintain c.2GW of renewable generation assets in the UK.

They are actively looking for a Solar O&M Team Leader to line Manage up to 2-10 Technicians in a region and be accountable to the Operations Manager for the performance of the team and the region.

Responsibilities
 

• The responsibilities of the Team Leader include all the responsibilities within the Technician job role, with the addition of the items below.
• The Team Leader may be allocated fewer sites to manage to ensure time can be allocated to the additional responsibilities.
• Line management of a team of Technicians, ensuring adherence to HSQE requirements at all times.
• Staff recruitment, training, and competency planning.
• Day to day planning alongside the co-ordinator a team of Technicians.
• Working with the Coordinator for responding to call outs from the monitoring team.
• Attendance at weekly coordination calls and relaying information back to the team.
• Always demonstrate leadership for health and safety and help improve safety standards across the team.
• Set high standard for quality and compliance of maintenance tasks, and lead by example in this area.
• Support the allocation of downtime events so that the correct downtime cause and penalising status can be recorded, and ensuring good commercial awareness when doing so during the monthly call.
• Discuss performance on a weekly to the Solar O&M Manager and demonstrate accountability for the performance of their region.
• Ensuring call out rota has full coverage.
• Support and carry out quality checks to ensure the high standard of all sites in the region and ensuring compliance with the O&M contract when requested.

• Reading, writing and amending Risk Assessments and Method Statements.
• Experience liaising with equipment vendors to support diagnosis of faults.
• DC and LV installation, fault finding, testing and commissioning.
• Solar PV installation and O&M experience (MW-scale or large commercial ground-mount).
• Battery storage installation and O&M experience (MW- scale) is desirable.
• Experience installing or maintaining ethernet and fibre optic communications.
• Experience working with SCADA or data monitoring systems.
• Working with Central inverters.
• Working with High Voltage switchgear.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Approved Electrician.
• Inspection and testing qualifications (C&G 2391 or 2394/5) highly valued.