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About the Role
The Performance Engineer II is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operational activities of active projects.
Responsibilities
- Ensures that all employees follow safe practices while working.
- Collaborates with internal teams to collect and consolidate data for reports, acceptance tests, and analytical tools.
- Onboards active projects into SOLV Energy’s internal Performance Team’s platforms.
- Tracks critical issues within the construction and/or operational fleet and shares findings with internal teams for fleet optimization.
- Troubleshoots performance data/equipment to determine and track commissioning challenges and correlates with work order data for accurate reporting.
- Leads Performance Engineers & Analysts in day-to-day coordination and management of operational activities relating to projects.
- Maintains a thorough understanding of site design, equipment, and current issues affecting projects.
- Calculates and analyzes energy losses and system performance from equipment outages/underperformance and communicates impacts to relevant teams.
- Maintains a thorough understanding of analytical tools, performance calculations, and best practices.
- Identifies and assists with troubleshooting potential issues using analytical tools.
- Updates existing client reports, including Commissioning Plans, Test Reports, Operation reports, Vitals, forecasting, and Yearly Guarantees.
- Supports work prioritization for field teams based on criticality and occurrences of failures.
- Identifies operational issues and initiates problem resolution with OEM vendors, field technicians, SCADA engineers, and other parties.
- Assists and supports data analytics and other software tools development with Performance Engineers and Managers.
- Reviews performance and operations reports and analyses generated by Performance Engineers & Analysts to ensure accuracy and identify issues.
- Manages plant performance optimization initiatives and collaborates with fellow Performance Engineers, Field & Project Management, and clients.
- Tracks and understands contractual guarantees and conducts periodic meetings to assess project risk and potential improvements.
- Maintains clear and accurate documents/procedures for internal reference and training.
- Facilitates strong working relationships with fellow Performance Engineers while prioritizing project ownership and success.
- Facilitates project reviews and ad-hoc client requests to address project performance.
- Reviews turnover documentation to monitor root causes for equipment underperformance and failure modes.
- Runs and evaluates PV system energy models for Utility Scale Solar PV Projects using PVsyst or other modeling software.
- Verifies project drawings including site plans, system layout, one lines, cable management, and equipment installation details.
- Creates project-specific troubleshooting/reporting templates and maintains or improves workflow task templates.
- Executes tasks in the Performance Engineering Workflow Process while maintaining accurate status notes.
- Performs and tracks different simulations in PVsyst, including impacts of terrain, horizon losses, shading, and snow, soiling, and spectral losses.
- Grows into a subject matter expert role in PV power plants.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, science, or a related technical discipline
- 4+ Years’ experience in PV Performance Engineering, Capacity Testing (ASTM E2848 & IEC standards) and PV data analytics
- Experience in modeling using software like PVSyst, PlantPredict, SAM, and so on
- Proficiency in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and other Office tools
- Experience with programming languages like Python, VBA, MATLAB, Java, and others preferred
- Ability to travel up to 20% of time
- Broad understanding of the Renewable Energy industry with emphasis on Service and Construction preferred
- Fosters a spirit of collaboration between teams
- Experience working for a diverse multi-disciplined company
- Strong communication skills to clearly articulate vision into an executable plan and clearly communicate details and thoughts to internal/external clients
- Effective problem-solving ability and strong analytical skills.
- Ability to identify underlying or hidden problems; looks beyond the obvious to the essence of issues and / or tasks.
- Entrepreneurial spirit and passion for problem solving
- Able to problem solve and engineer the solution
- Able to explain to both internal and external clients
- Able to mentor and oversee Performance Engineers & Analysts
Skills
- PV Performance Engineering
- Capacity Testing (ASTM E2848 & IEC standards)
- PV data analytics
- PVSyst
- PlantPredict
- SAM
- MS Excel
- MS Word
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Outlook
- Python
- VBA
- MATLAB
- Java
- Renewable Energy industry
- Service and Construction
- Collaboration
- Communication skills
- Problem-solving
- Analytical skills
- Mentoring
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid (San Diego, CA or Bend, OR)
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 4+ Years’ experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, science, or a related technical discipline
Salary/Compensations
- $117,678.00 - $129,446.00
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Basic life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Vacation pay
- Sick pay
- Holiday pay
About the Company
- SOLV Energy is a leading provider of infrastructure services to the power industry, designing, building and maintaining utility scale solar, battery storage and high voltage substation projects nationwide.
Equal Opportunity
- SOLV Energy Is an Equal Opportunity Employer
- At SOLV Energy we celebrate the power of our differences. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces that improve our communities. SOLV Energy prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind against an employee or applicant based on race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, or ethnicity, mental or physical disability, veteran status, parental status, or any other characteristic protected by law.