Operations Maintenance Manager
Convergent Energy + Power, United States
Job Description
Energy storage is the key to unlocking a future where our world is powered by renewable resources. At Convergent Energy and Power, our mission is to make the electrical grid cleaner, more reliable, and less expensive by leveraging state-of-the-art energy storage and distributed generation technologies.
The Oamp;M Manager is a member of the Facility Operations team tasked with managing the maintenance and repair of standalone Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and BESS + PV facilities and equipment. The Oamp;M Manager is responsible for the implementation and development of maintenance programs and identifies items needing improvement, to maximize the up-time and technical performance of Convergent’s operational assets.
What You’ll Do
Working closely with internal and external organizations, the Oamp;M Manager provides support for new and existing facilities operations, including coordination of on-site resources, in troubleshooting operations and maintenance requirements of the company’s deployed assets.
- Provide leadership and oversight for day-to-day tasks and operations for Field Technicians and contracted 3rd party resources.
- Ensure compliance with all safety, environmental and contractual responsibilities.
- Solve complex problems encountered in the operation of BESS and PV systems by facilitating troubleshooting efforts with various subject matter experts to realize resolution.
- Procure parts, materials, services, and support resolution of technical issues.
- Prepare scopes of work and statements of services for bid and evaluate and award contracts to consultants, vendors, and contractors.
- Communicate progress and ensure ongoing alignment to the organization's strategic objectives.
- Commissioning Provide technical commissioning support to the Project Management Team, including coordination with internal and external organizations on relay settings, SCADA integration, network configuration, acceptance testing of SCADA, DAS, and network systems.
- Incident Response Provide root cause analysis for equipment failure, forced outages, and underproduction, including technical evaluation of SEL relay event logs.
- Scheduling Create and maintain preventative maintenance schedules.
- Document Control Maintain documentation related to facility commissioning, operations and maintenance including RFP, design drawings, maintenance reports, service history, root cause analysis. Maintain assigned facility Operations Manuals and assure that operating policies and procedures are kept up to date.
- Cost Control - Ensure all asset maintenance is provided on-time and to budget, create POs and process vendor invoices for Oamp;M projects, strategically manage maintenance activity to reduce cost.
Requirements
Our Ideal Operations amp; Maintenance Manager Will:
- Have a minimum of 3 years’ experience managing PV or BESS maintenance or construction (or similar power systems projects), including DC systems, AC medium voltage systems, and network communications and monitoring.
- Be committed to Safety in the workplace (OSHA and other federal, state, and local safety practices).
- Have working knowledge of electrical equipment; BESS, HVAC, PV modules, inverters amp; racking, transformers, panelboards, switchgear, relays and communications.
- Be able to read and understand electrical drawings and specifications, network, and control wiring diagrams.
- Have strong Analytical and Diagnostic capabilities to troubleshoot and correct problems as identified.
- Have knowledge of industry-standard communication protocols such as Ethernet and Modbus.
- Be familiar with with electrical construction techniques, installation practices and plant start-up requirements.
- Have experience negotiating and managing contracts with 3rd party service providers.
- Software - MS Office/Teams, AlsoEnergy PowerTrack, AcSELerator.
Benefits
Our priority is to ensure that every team member feels valued and supported to have a healthy balance between work-life and personal life. We believe a full life outside of the office makes for a happier, healthier team. We support that by offering robust benefits that cover you and your family such as: medical, dental, vision insurances, PTO, and 401k with a company match.
Convergent is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law