About the Role
This pivotal role connects cutting-edge technology with the operational excellence of renewable energy assets across Europe, focusing on the Senior O&M Asset Manager position. The role involves holding senior accountability for asset management of PV and ESS portfolios, leading and mentoring a team, and serving as the senior escalation point for complex issues.
Responsibilities
- Hold senior accountability for the asset management of PV and ESS portfolios across Europe, ensuring compliance with LTSAs, SLAs, KPIs, budgets, and performance targets.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Asset Managers, setting objectives, reviewing performance, and building capability.
- Act as the senior escalation point and primary customer interface for complex technical, contractual, warranty, and corrective service issues.
- Perform and oversee advanced contract analysis, identifying risks, obligations, and value optimization opportunities, and actively support LTSA negotiations.
- Provide senior technical oversight by reviewing and validating Root Cause Analyses (RCAs), interpreting SCADA data, and assessing equipment logs.
- Lead service partner performance management in collaboration with procurement and O&M teams, focusing on cost control, service quality, and contractual compliance.
- Drive a data-driven asset management approach, including availability and performance analysis, spare parts strategy, and lifecycle cost optimization.
- Ensure strong cross-functional coordination with Projects, Sales, Engineering, and HQ to support asset handover and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Contribute directly to the profitability and long-term value of the O&M business through cost optimization, risk management, and performance-driven decision-making.
- Champion continuous improvement in processes, reporting, asset performance, reliability, and team ways of working across the European asset management function.
Requirements
- A degree in engineering, business, contracting, or a related technical field is essential.
- Possess a strong technical background in PV and Energy Storage (BESS) technologies.
- Extensive experience in O&M asset management, handling complex asset portfolios and long-term service agreements is required.
- Advanced expertise in contract analysis, including warranties, SLAs, penalties, liabilities, and risk allocation, is crucial.
- Proven ability to review and validate RCAs, and to analyze SCADA data and equipment logs at a senior decision-making level.
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams, with the ability to set priorities, coach performance, and drive accountability is expected.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and negotiation skills with customers, internal teams, and service partners.
- Highly analytical, structured, and commercially minded, with a strong focus on profitability and value creation.
- Fluency in English is mandatory.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word) is necessary.
- Ability to operate effectively within a multicultural, matrix organization, with regular interaction with HQ and senior leadership.
Skills
- PV and Energy Storage (BESS) technologies
- O&M asset management
- Contract analysis
- Root Cause Analyses (RCAs)
- SCADA data analysis
- Equipment log interpretation
- Team leadership and development
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Analytical skills
- Commercial acumen
- Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word)
- Advanced data analysis
Location
- Europe
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree in engineering, business, contracting, or a related technical field
About the Company
- Sungrow is a green tech company with young creative minds, fighting every day to make the mission 'Clean Power for All' happen.
- With over 870+GW of clean power installed worldwide, Sungrow is a leader in the research and development of solar inverters.
- The company has the largest dedicated R&D team in the industry and a broad product portfolio offering PV inverter solutions and energy storage systems for various applications.
- Sungrow also offers internationally recognized floating PV plant solutions, NEV driving solutions, EV charging solutions, and renewable hydrogen production systems.
