O & M Manager - Solar

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Job Description

The La Toba hybrid Solar/Storage Power Generating facility is a nominal 31.55 MWAC solar power generation with TMEIC Inverters & 120MWH power storage with Powin Inverters incorporating over 100,000 Solar panels. The facility is located in the Cd. Constituci??n, Comondu municipality, Baja California Sur.

Position Overview

As the O & M Manager, you will direct a team of solar technicians in the preventative and corrective maintenance of equipment that makes up La Toba Energy Center. You will provide leadership and direction to an operations and maintenance staff of approximately four (4) personnel. This position reports to the Vice President of Operations, and is part of a management team that is responsible for the safe, efficient, fiscally and environmentally conscientious operation and maintenance of the facility, including all supporting properties and equipment.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example in all areas, ensuring standards are maintained with regard to personnel and safety, stewardship of the plant, equipment availability, and team work.
• Oversight and supervision of La Toba personnel in all aspects of plant maintenance.
• Provide leadership and direction of plant maintenance during all routine, predictive, preventative, emergency and outage maintenance activities.
• Develop, train and supervise La Toba Energy Center personnel to ensure a qualified staff is in place to maintain and operate the site.
• Determine, develop and implement short and long term maintenance and operations strategies for the plant in coordination with the Management Team.
• Create, improve and maintain a maintenance schedule for all predictive and preventative maintenance activities with the goal of maximizing availability. This is to include monitoring equipment run hours and rotations to ensure best maintenance practices are followed and integrated into the PM schedule.
• Responsible for the planning, scheduling and execution of all maintenance outages, including work performed by contractors.
• Maintain plant performance monitoring and reporting systems and hardware (PI, eLogger, EAM, Intelex, etc.).
• Coordinate and direct supervision of all subcontractors to ensure safety, cost control, and quality assurance. Create, maintain and continually improve a predictive maintenance program, including all the best industry practices, etc.
• Develop and maintain operating procedures for normal, shutdown and emergent plant operations.
• Implement and administer the site computerized maintenance management system (EAM), maintain this system, and audit and manage the EAM backlog of work orders.
• Ensure that needed administrative functions, including plant logging, chemistry logging, Lock-Out-Tag-Out and other safety program administration, time reporting, etc., are performed to standards.
• Coordinate the identification of critical spare parts and their procurement, and manage this inventory in a manner consistent with plant needs.
• Develop and continually improve maintenance procedures. Assist in establishing goals and expectations for O&M Tech performance. Observe, document, coach and provide frequent feedback to personnel regarding their performance.
• Manage the necessary training programs to improve maintenance skills of the O&M Technicians. Administer the training and qualifications for the technical skills training programs including electrical, instrument and controls.
• Oversee the initial stocking and organization of the plant warehouse. This includes tools, materials, consumables and spare parts inventory. Perform routine audits of spare parts and materials as in accordance with plant procedures.

Required Skills

• Minimum of five (5) years experience in the power generation industry.
• Knowledge Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) knowledge.
• Mechanical or Electrical Engineering degree.
• Extensive knowledge in commissioning, operation and maintenance in Inverters and BOP in renewable energy facilities.
• Experience with EAM or similar maintenance management tracking software, preferably associated with power plant maintenance.
• Ability to handle daily communication of expectations, coach employees, provide feedback and work collaboratively with plant staff motivating employees using oral and written communication to communicate objectives and action plans.
• Work background must include demonstrated progressively increasing responsibilities.
• High degree of flexibility and the capacity to work in a rapidly changing and ambiguous environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite programs and all related software for daily operations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills Spanish and English.