Senior Manager, Consulting Services – SASE
Palo Alto Networks
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Solar Plant Manager
Leeward Renewable Energy, LLC
full-time
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Location: Oklahoma • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- The Solar Plant Manager – Self Perform oversees daily, weekly, quarterly, and annual solar plant operations with a focus on leading a self-performing O&M team.\n
- Responsibilities include maximizing energy output, ensuring safe work practices, implementing quality control across maintenance activities, and maintaining plant's full P&L accountability.\n
- Location: TwelveMile Solar near Durant, Oklahoma.\n
- Lead frontline workers, scheduling and planning maintenance, and leveraging internal support functions.\n
- Implement lean working structures, efficient inventory management, and drive continuous improvements to foster a safe work culture.\n
- Ensure compliance with policies, regulations, and applicable laws.\n
- Responsibilities also include risk-based decision making and stakeholder engagement with internal teams and external contractors.\n
- Experience requirements: 5+ years leading service and maintenance teams in solar and BESS plants; strong knowledge of QC, lean processes, inventory management, asset management, P&L, and risk-based decision making.\n
- Education: minimum High School Diploma; preferred associate or bachelor in ENG or Business.\n
- Physical requirements: ability to spend significant time in the field; exposure to extreme weather.\n
Requirements
- Leadership & Team Management: Lead, coach, and mentor frontline workers to foster a culture of safety, teamwork, and continuous improvement. Set clear goals, provide feedback, and conduct performance evaluations to maintain high productivity.\n
- O&M Planning & Scheduling: Develop and manage maintenance schedules for preventive, minor, and large corrective work, maximizing energy output and system reliability. Implement lean processes to enhance efficiency.\n
- Safety & Quality Control: Oversee quality control for all site activities, ensuring compliance with company policies and regulations. Promote safe work practices and drive root cause analysis for performance issues.\n
- Performance Management: Monitor plant performance metrics, identify areas for improvement, and implement strategies to optimize energy production. Utilize internal support functions to drive value creation.\n
- Inventory & Resource Management: Manage spare parts, tools, and consumables, optimizing inventory levels to support maintenance activities and minimize downtime.\n
- Financial Accountability: Manage the plant’s full P&L, ensuring that all operations and maintenance activities align with financial targets and contribute to the plant’s overall profitability.\n
- Risk-Based Decision Making: Utilize data and operational insights to make informed, risk-based decisions that optimize plant performance and reduce potential downtimes or losses.\n
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with internal support teams and external contractors/stakeholders to ensure seamless plant operations. Communicate plant performance and improvement initiatives to senior management.\n
- Cross Functional Collaboration: Work with Construction Management and Asset Management Teams to facilitate the startup of high-quality power plants.\n
- Compliance Management: Assure regulatory compliance as well as compliance to all applicable laws, codes, standards and regulations.\n
