Solar Technician Team Lead

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.
Requirements
 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.
Location:             Lincolnshire/Leicestershire/Nottinghamshire
 


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Climate17 is a purpose-led, international Renewable Energy & Sustainability recruitment firm. We provide specialist talent acquisition services to organisations seeking to reduce their environmental footprint, as well as those working towards the decarbonisation of the energy sector.

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