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.