This position may be remote or traveling to the sites. Travel may be up to 50% of time.
Reports to: Director, Commissioning
Supervises: Internal Field Commissioning Staff, Subcontractors and Vendors
Works closely with: Construction Managers, Project Managers, Field Commissioning Staff, Project Engineers, Performance Engineering, Safety Manager, Owner/Subcontractor/Vendor/Utility/ISO representatives.
Responsibilities/ Duties- Live Signal Energy's core principles to achieve preferred selection by our customers by continually improving processes, products and services to ensure Signal Energy consistently meets or exceeds customer requirements.
- 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.
- Communicate Signal commissioning practices clearly and effectively to outside parties including clients, AHJs, and sub-contractors.
- Continue to develop and maintain commissioning documentation including a commissioning plan template and commissioning forms.
- Integrate Cx procedures and documentation with Procore to improve efficiency of processes and ensure proper archival of Cx documentation.
- Review, correct and answer Owner's comments related to commissioning
- Manage daily Cx meetings with owners, vendors, sub-contractors, etc.
- Prepare and approve checklists for commissioning tests
- Coordinate with Safety in preparation of SOPs for energized tasks
- Review forecasted Commissioning schedules in coordination with PMs.
- Assist developing project specific Cx plans.
- Assist project teams with scoping of Cx activities to appropriate sub-contractors.
- Interface and coordinate with suppliers, including review of test plans, bill of material, factory testing, and schedule collaboration during commissioning.
- Work with Project Engineers and Cx Superintendents to review all Cx documentation submitted by sub-contractors and resolve any issues.
- Work with project engineers and Cx Superintendents to ensure each projects Cx requirements are met and all Cx activities and test results are properly documented.
- Work with quality control to ensure smooth transition from quality to Cx
- Manage field Cx Superintendents.
- Assist CMs and PMs in managing subs with Cx scope to ensure Cx is completed on schedule.
- Work with Performance engineering to transition project from Cx to performance testing.
- Travel to sites as necessary to personally manage Cx when necessary.
- Provide guidance to CMs, field Cx staff, or subs in troubleshoot inverters, trackers, SCADA, combiner boxes, transformers, communications, POA, Met stations, soiling stations, control building alarms, substation, and ground faults.
- Become Subject Matter Expert on the interconnection process for different Utilities and ISOs.
- Support project teams in achieving ISO and Utility milestones where required (CAISO buckets, ERCOT interconnection, etc.)
- Support and coordinate utility and ISO tests (Power Factor, Relay Testing, Telemetry) and PPC tests (AVR, PFR, Curtailment, etc)
- Monitor progress of construction as it relates to the critical path for Commissioning
Knowledge/ Skills/ Abilities- 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
- IV curve tracing
- VOC testing
- DC operating current checks
- 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
- Preferred software: Procore
Education/ Experience- 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.
- Thorough understanding of the principles of solar power generation.
Logistics- Signal Energy is a partially remote office environment. Work will primarily be conducted from home or office.
- Office equipment will be provided as needed.
- Travel to sites will be roughly 50% of the time, fluctuating with workload
