What are the responsibilities and job description for the Field Operations Manager position at Navisun?
Position Summary:
Navisun, LLC is seeking a Field Operations Manager to support the operations and maintenance of Navisun’s growing portfolio of PV and BESS assets. This role requires licensure as an electrician, a minimum of OSHA 30 certification and previous experience working with various PV inverter manufacturers. The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated individual with significant industry experience looking to support process improvements throughout the Asset Management team as well as performance optimization throughout the assets.
Job Responsibilities:
- Responsible for working safely, including complying with all safety policies and procedures
- Seek ways to enhance safe operations
- Oversee the preventative and corrective maintenance of Photovoltaic (PV) inverters, combiner boxes, solar panels and other components
- Perform electrical testing using appropriate PPE and procedures
- Assist with troubleshooting solar site systems and electrical issues
- Prepare reports if needed to comply with deliverables in O&M contracts
- Help in all areas of preventative and corrective maintenance as directed by manager with minimal supervision
- Support the Asset Management team with building robust procedures for tracking operations of the assets
- Attend training sessions on equipment as provided by the manufacturer and approved by manager
- In the performance of your duties, use equipment and resources in accordance with instructions provided by the company
- Maintains adherence to Company policies, quality, environmental health and safety policies, and good housekeeping practices
- Carry out any other tasks delegated by the company
Qualifications:
- Must have a strong safety mindset, excellent work ethic, good communication, and documenting skills
- Must be flexible, be able to adapt to new situations, have self-control and have high integrity
- Strong safety orientation and the willingness and ability to work safely in accordance with company safety policies
- State issued electrical license (Required)
- OSHA 30 hr. minimum (Required)
- PV/Solar Maintenance: 7 years (Required)
- NFPA 70E training for safe electrical work
- Ability to travel to project sites
- Ability to lift a minimum of 70 lbs.
- Ability to read and comprehend electrical/mechanical schematics, technical manuals, procedures and regulations
- Working knowledge of Medium Voltage equipment associated with Distributed Generation Assets.
- Competent skills using the Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Ability to learn and use internal software’s such as GPM Horizon, Procore, and/or Acumatica.
- Working knowledge of DAS systems (Also Energy, Aderis, Fractal, etc.)
