Company Description

Solar South West Ltd is a leading PV contractor in the UK, offering professional turnkey solar PV construction and O&M services. The company has received accolades such as PV Installer of the Year for the South West and Best Solar PV Installations Company. With a strong financial backing, Solar South West Ltd is dedicated to timely delivery and customer satisfaction.

Job Type

Full-time

Schedule

Monday to Friday

Weekend availability

Are you able to commute to our office in Crewkerne within one hour?

Work Location

In person

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension
Cycle to work scheme
Enhanced maternity leave
Private medical insurance

Full job description

Overview

Reporting into the O&M Coordinator, you will proactively support our O&M growth but maintaining and repairing our own and our customers assets to the highest standard. Always maintaining a must repair and first-time fix mentality. This will enable us to grow efficiently in both asset volume and reputation which is key to us.

Duties

Take primary responsibility for solar plant performance, optimisation of the site and for maintaining equipment availability.
Perform pre-planned and reactive maintenance works across their solar farms, including electrical maintenance, solar panel cleaning (occasionally) and support the HV team.
Effectively help to resolve work tickets and report issues back to your line manager. Compiling reports of completed works.
Liaising with internal and external teams, including in-house LV/HV personnel, the grounds team and external subcontractors when required.
Providing mentoring and training to junior technicians where required.
Working hours of 42.5 per week and taking part in the company's on-call rota for non-working hours (including Bank Holidays and weekends) (on call allowances), 1 in every 4 weekends.

Qualifications

Experience in industrial, utility scale and/or Roof top solar is preferred. However, if no solar experience, then an industrial electrician background is of interest.
A City and Guilds or NVQ Level 2 or 3 in Electrical Engineering, Installation, Testing & Inspection or similar, electrical course.
18th edition wiring regulations.
High Voltage Authorisation would be advantageous but not essential.
A full UK driving licence is essential due to remote nature of the sites

Personal Skills

The Solar O&M Engineer role would suit someone who is or has:

A strong attention to detail.
Strong adherence to health and safety as well as incident prevention.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Package

An excellent starting salary.
Overtime and on call rota allowance.
Own van and fuel card.
20 days annual leave, private health insurance, company pension scheme and more.

Strictly no agencies, direct applicants only please.

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