Field Technician

Recurrent Energy is one of the world’s largest and most geographically diversified utility-scale solar and energy storage project development, ownership and operations platforms. With an industry-leading team of in-house energy experts, we are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc. and function as Canadian Solar’s global development and power services business.

Responsibilities

• Possess a high degree of safety training and awareness and adhere to all health and safety rules and company policies.
• Troubleshoot daily project system issues to meet uptime goals.
• Understand hourly and daily solar farm production output targets. If there is any risk of not meeting them, execute a plan for correction or elevation of the situation.
• Perform routine maintenance (PMs, start-up tests, etc.) on equipment and determine when and what kind of maintenance is needed before elevating any problems or issues.
• Identify potential problems and suggest changes or corrective actions.
• Work with other members of the O&M team, sub-contractors, and other groups to continuously improve system performance, drive product quality and maintenance cost improvement.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot various solar farm systems such as PV arrays, inverters, switchgear, transformers, breakers, communications, and CCTV equipment, etc.
• Follow the maintenance schedules and conduct equipment preventative maintenance.
• Assist in developing standard operating documents for equipment maintenance, operations, and training.
• Assist with project commissioning and testing providing knowledge expertise.
• Ensure that all business activities are performed with the highest ethical standards and in compliance with the Canadian Solar Solutions Code of Business Conduct.
• Adhere to all environmental, health and safety rules and policies.
• Complete other duties and projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum 1 year work experience as a maintenance technician in the renewable energy field (solar, wind or similar).
• Experience maintaining and operating MV and HV equipment.
• A secondary school technical education.
• Experience in troubleshooting and repairing various types of electrical machinery and equipment.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, diagrams, schematics, drawings, manuals, and specifications.
• Knowledge of computer systems and networking would be a valuable asset.
• Strong work ethic, positive team attitude and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be willing to work outside of normal daytime hours of 8am to 5:00pm responding to emergency service or equipment issues. Some nights and weekend work will be required.
• ONS operator certification is a plus.
• Must be willing to travel for extended periods up to a week on occasion.
• Must have a valid Brazilian driver’s licence with a clean abstract.