NextEra Energy

Project Manager Development

NextEra Energy$90K — $120K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in residential solar operations, maintenance, or field service
  • Strong understanding of residential PV systems, inverters, and monitoring platforms
  • Experience managing third-party vendors or service providers
  • Proficiency in data analysis and performance monitoring tools
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive mindset
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the day-to-day technical performance and O&M activities of residential solar PV assets
  • Manage and coordinate third-party O&M providers for service quality and adherence to SLAs
  • Serve as an escalation point for customer issues, ensuring high customer satisfaction
  • Collaborate closely with internal teams including account management and customer support
  • Monitor system performance and analyze data to identify trends and faults
  • Develop and implement corrective actions to improve system reliability
  • Collect and interpret performance data to generate reports and actionable insights

Benefits

  • Wide range of benefits to support employees and eligible family members
  • Relocation provided if applicable
Full Job Description
Requisition ID: 95774

Position Specific Description

The Residential Solar Field Operations Lead is responsible for overseeing the technical performance, operations, and maintenance (O&M) of a portfolio of residential photovoltaic (PV) systems. This role serves as a key point of contact for customer escalations, manages third-party O&M providers, and collaborates cross-functionally to ensure optimal system performance and customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate brings strong technical expertise, data-driven decision-making, and the ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Oversee the day-to-day technical performance and O&M activities of residential solar PV assets
  • Manage and coordinate third-party O&M providers to ensure service quality, responsiveness, and adherence to SLAs
  • Serve as an escalation point for customer issues, ensuring timely resolution and high customer satisfaction
  • Collaborate closely with internal teams including account management, customer support, and business management
  • Monitor system performance and analyze monitoring/ticketing data to identify trends, faults, and underperformance
  • Develop and implement corrective actions to improve system reliability and energy production
  • Coordinate with O&M providers and internal stakeholders to optimize asset performance and uptime
  • Collect, analyze, and interpret performance data to generate reports and actionable insights
  • Provide recommendations for operational improvements, cost optimization, and performance enhancements
  • Track and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to system performance, service response times, and issue resolution

The ideal candidate will have:
  • 3+ years of experience in residential solar operations, maintenance, or field service
  • Strong understanding of residential PV systems, inverters, monitoring platforms, and common failure modes
  • Experience managing third-party vendors or service providers
  • Proficiency in data analysis and performance monitoring tools
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience working with distributed generation portfolios
  • Familiarity with SalesForce
  • Knowledge of O&M best practices and performance optimization strategies
  • Background in electrical systems or renewable energy engineering (preferred but not required)

Work Environment:
  • Based in Houston, TX
  • Some travel required
  • Combination of office-based work and coordination with field teams and service providers


Job Overview

Employees in this role assist in the development and execution of plans for new and enhanced generation projects. This job coordinates allocation of resources, schedules, and technical adequacy, ensuring the project or transaction is completed in the most cost effective and competitive manner. This position participates in all aspects of the business deal and ensures the project is completed on time and within budgetary constraints.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

  • Leads and facilitates the day to day transaction process to ensure timely completion as well as a cost effective and competitive result
  • Coordinates key functions such as financial feasibility analyses, engineering/design, project legal review, permitting activities and financial negotiations
  • Supports due diligence activities with other internal groups to ensure proper analysis and structuring of assigned projects
  • Acts as liaison between internal and external specialists regarding procurement, contracting, permitting and interconnection
  • Assists in the construction of contractual arrangements for project development
  • Participates in negotiating agreements with consultants and subcontractors
  • Ensures compliance with applicable technical and regulatory requirements
  • Fosters external relationships with customers, third parties and members of the community
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned


Required Qualifications

  • High School Grad / GED
  • Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
  • Experience: 3+ years


Preferred Qualifications

  • None


NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more.

Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Business Development
Organization: NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

About NextEra Energy

A growth-oriented limited partnership formed by NextEra Energy, Inc., NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP) acquires, manages, and owns contracted clean energy projects with stable, long-term cash flows. They own interests in wind and solar projects in North America, as well as natural gas infrastructure assets in Texas. Renewable energy projects are fully contracted, use technology, and are located in regions that are favorable for generating energy from the wind and sun. The seven natural gas pipelines in the portfolio are all strategically located, serving power producers and municipalities in South Texas, processing plants and producers in the Eagle Ford Shale, and commercial and industrial customers in the Houston area. The NET Mexico Pipeline, the largest pipeline in the portfolio, provides a critical source of natural gas transportation for low-cost, U.S.-sourced shale gas to Mexico.

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Size
15,000 employees
Market Cap
$6.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$51 million
Founded
2014
5 Year Trend
+4.9%
Revenue
$917 million
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