Role

Climate17 are working exclusively with a High Voltage and Engineering services consultancy who maintain a growing portfolio of large-scale solar farms across the UK.

They are looking for a Solar O&M Performance Analyst to monitor daily and long-term performance of a number of solar assets using remote monitoring systems and other 3rd party systems in order to identify any downtime or plant and equipment irregularities and provide information to the O&M operatives and contractors as required.

Responsibilities
 

• Remotely monitor assets and immediately advise the Asset Manager of issues affecting site production and availability.
• Remotely monitor their portfolio of assets and ensure contractors are responding to site faults and errors on the equipment within agreed timeframes/SLAs.
• Provide support to the Asset Manager and the O&M team to diagnose and remedy operational problems.
• Provide direct input to the reporting system, update existing spreadsheets and create new as required.
• Track equipment issues and defects throughout the entire lifetime of the assets.
• Analyse the monitoring system data to identify current and historic long-term issues, faults and any patterns that may indicate irregularities with the installed equipment.
• Comply with all required fire, health and safety requirements for the environment in which you are working.
• Attend Asset Management team meetings, handover meetings and appraisals as required.
• Visit company sites within the UK (as required)

• 1+ year (post education) experience with computerised monitoring systems on plant and equipment (preferably Solar)
• Degree Educated, ideally in an Engineering or Renewable Energy discipline (Desirable)
• Interpretation of mechanical and electrical engineering drawings
• Advanced Excel Skills (macros, visual basic)
• Power BI or equivalent (Desirable)
• Ability to commute to East Sussex offices as required
• Full UK drivers licence (Desirable)