Senior Commissioning Manager
Signal Energy
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Lead commissioning (Cx) efforts for Utility Scale Solar and BESS projects.
- Filling a management and support role with a broad scope of responsibilities across the Signal organization.
- Coordinating onsite and remote testing and startup activities.
- Reviewing contract language, preparing documentation and supporting the Interconnection process.
- Travel may be up to 50% of time.
- Communicate effectively with a wide range of people including Signal colleagues from all departments, clients, sub-contractors, and other stakeholders.
- Review commissioning requirements in upstream contract language from Signal’s clients for problematic requirements and consistency with Signal‘s internal commissioning standards.
- Work with estimating and project management groups to ensure commissioning requirements are adequately planned (schedule) and budgeted for at the proposal stage.
- Serve as the commissioning subject matter expert for Signal supporting Project Engineers, Project Managers, and other team members.
- Manage daily Cx meetings with owners, vendors, sub-contractors, etc.
- Prepare and approve checklists for commissioning tests
- Work with quality control to ensure smooth transition from quality to Cx.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in technical field (engineering, physics, math, statistics, renewables or similar) preferred, but not required.
- Minimum of 7+ years of professional experience
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in solar commissioning
- Experience in operations and construction within the solar industry strongly preferred.
- Strong people skills: The ability to work in a team environment and motivate people in order to achieve objectives.
- Drive to improve upon status quo and ability to communicate value of changing and improving processes.
- Familiarity with and understanding of NETA ATS.
- Knowledge and expertise about PV solar equipment including PV modules, combiner boxes, solar trackers, inverters, DAS/SCADA equipment, communications hardware, meteorological sensors, etc.
- Knowledge of ISO and Utility interconnection process is a plus
- Knowledge and expertise of PV specific testing and equipment o IV curve tracing o VOC testing o DC operating current checks o Familiarity with handheld and drone thermal imaging
- Knowledge of NFPA 70E and safe electrical work practices
- Required software: Microsoft Office, Cloud storage (Box, Dropbox, OneDrive), Bluebeam Revu, Excel, Testing tools software
Benefits
- Signal Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and uses E-Verify.
- Work will primarily be conducted from home or office.
- Travel to sites will be roughly 50% of the time, fluctuating with workload.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
solar commissioningoperationsconstructionPV solar equipmentIV curve tracingVOC testingDC operating current checksthermal imagingNETA ATSISO interconnection process
Soft Skills
people skillsteamworkmotivationcommunicationprocess improvementleadership