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Engineer

• Own plantlevel KPIs including availability, performance ratio, energy variance, and loss analysis.
• Conduct advanced SCADA and historical analytics across inverters, combiners, trackers, weather stations, and gridside data.
• Detect and quantify underperformance with clear revenueimpact calculations.
• Assess and challenge energy models and yield assessments (e.g., PVSyst), ensuring data quality and sensor accuracy.
• Serve as the technical lead overseeing O&M providers across the portfolio.
• Enforce SLA requirements, availability definitions, response times, performance metrics, and reporting standards.
• Review and challenge rootcause analyses, corrective action plans, and patterns of recurring failures.
• Identify systemic issues related to OEM equipment defects, design flaws, or workmanship.
• Lead investigations into major equipment and system failures (inverters, trackers, transformers, communications, PID, curtailment events).
• Support warranty and insurance claims through evidencebased technical analysis.
• Review spareparts strategies and analyze failurerate trends.
• Support repowering, retrofits, and technology upgrades across the fleet.
• Optimize maintenance strategies, including module washing, vegetation control, drone inspections, and component replacements.
• Assist with physical and cybersecurity considerations affecting plant operations.
• Support analysis of ancillary services performance and forcemajeurerelated impacts.
• Translate technical performance and losses into financial impacts for Asset Management and Finance teams.
• Contribute to annual budgets, longterm performance forecasts, and degradation assessments.
• Engage with ISOs/RTOs, grid operators, OEMs, insurers, consultants, and independent engineers.
• Provide technical support during acquisitions, diligence processes, and asset transitions.
• Perform onsite audits, inspections, and technical performance reviews.
• Validate field conditions against SCADA, contractor reports, and operational data.
• Provide technical mentorship and leadership to junior and midlevel asset management engineers, ensuring growth in analytical and field capabilities.
• Act as the primary technical counterpart for lenders, equity partners, insurers, and independent engineers.
• Translate complex operational issues into clear, defensible narratives for senior leadership and financial stakeholders.
• Support lender reporting, compliance tracking, and covenant obligations, including explanations of performance deviations and material events.
• Participate in partner, lender, and boardlevel discussions regarding reliability, risk exposure, and availability impacts.
• Support refinancing and portfoliolevel financing processes with robust technical inputs.
• Collaborate with Finance, Legal, and Operations to align technical findings with contractual terms and financial outcomes.
• Provide factbased support in disputes with O&M contractors, OEMs, insurers, or counterparties.

Senior Performance Engineer

Director

• Champion the execution of a high-impact utility-scale solar and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) portfolio.
• Orchestrate the seamless transition from Final Investment Decision (FID) and Notice to Proceed (NTP) through to successful Commercial Operation (COD).
• Provide expert technical oversight for engineering alignment and design optimization.
• Navigate complex grid coordination, including interconnection compliance and utility/ISO relations.
• Direct the negotiation and lifecycle management of EPC, BOP, and major supply agreements.
• Drive detailed project schedules and robust cost controls to ensure financial and delivery milestones are achieved.
• Lead high-level collaboration between development, engineering, finance, legal, and asset management teams.

Director of Project Delivery – Solar & BESS

Controller

• Prepare project financial statements
• Build and maintain project budgets and financial models
• Track project spend against approved budgets
• Monitor cost-to-complete forecasts
• Review and approve invoices related to assigned projects
• Manage change order financial analysis
• Prepare monthly project financial reports
• Analyze variances and identify risk exposure
• Support lender and investor reporting requirements
• Collaborate with EPC and Development teams to validate project financial assumptions
• Review contract terms for financial impact
• Track milestone payments and draw schedules
• Ensure alignment between financial models and executed contracts
• Ensure proper project-level accounting treatment
• Support audit requests related to assigned projects
• Maintain documentation and financial controls specific to project SPVs

Renewable Energy Project Controller

• Step into a utility‑scale solar performance engineer role by supporting daily monitoring, data analysis, and performance reporting for large US solar assets.
• Monitor operating plants performance, identify issues propagate through the system, and how technical losses translate into financial outcomes.
• This role is designed to develop future asset owners — not dashboard operators.
• Perform daily monitoring of utility-scale PV plants through SCADA and performance platforms.
• Conduct first-level alarm triage, log issues, and escalate as needed.
• Validate production, availability, performance ratio, and curtailment data.
• Maintain clean and organized event logs and performance databases.
• Support investigations into underperformance at the inverter, block, or tracker level.
• Assist with loss analysis and basic root-cause assessments.
• Contribute to monthly and annual performance reports.
• Identify key contractual KPIs and take action to limit their influence on revenue and potential liquidated damages.
• Coordinate with O&M service providers regarding routine operational issues.
• Support field visits, site inspections, and basic performance audits.
• Keep technical documentation, as-built drawings, and asset records up to date.
• Build foundational knowledge of PV system design, component behavior, and common failure modes.
• Develop technical skills in data analysis, scripting, automation, and SCADA logic.
• Progress toward independently managing the technical oversight of solar assets.

Senior Performance Engineer

Director of Project Delivery – Solar & BESS

Renewable Energy Project Controller

Technical Asset Management Engineer – Utility-Scale Solar