The Position
The Team Leader holds the same duties as a Technician with additional responsibilities The ideal candidate will be an experienced Technician who has good leadership capabilities, project management skills and dedication to delivering a world class O&M service.The Team Leader will Line Manager up to 2-10 Technicians in a region and be accountable to the Operations Manager for the performance of the team and the region Key Accountabilities The responsibilities of the Team Leader include all the responsibilities within the Technician job role, with the addition of the items below.Note – the Team Leader may be allocated fewer sites to manage to ensure time can be allocated to the additional responsibilities.
1. Line management of a team of Technicians, ensuring adherence to HSQE requirements at all time
2. Staff recruitment, training, and competency planning
3. Day to day planning alongside the co-ordinator a team of Technicians
4. Working with the Coordinator for responding to call outs from the monitoring team
5. Attendance at weekly coordination calls and relaying information back to the team
6. Always demonstrate leadership for health and safety and help improve safety standards across the team
7. Set high standard for quality and compliance of maintenance tasks, and lead by example in this area
8. Review and approve work orders in the company CMMS
9. Support the allocation of downtime events so that the correct downtime cause and penalising status can be recorded, and ensuring good commercial awareness when doing so during the monthly call
10. Discuss performance on a weekly to the Solar O&M Manager and demonstrate accountability for the performance of their region
11. Ensuring callout rota has full coverage
12. Support and carry out quality checks to ensure the high standard of all sites in the region and ensuring compliance with the O&M contract when requested
13. Ensuring records are maintained and the CMMS is used to its fullest extent
14. Supporting recruitment and new staff onboarding activities
15. Providing support to fill resource gaps within the region
16. Maintain and develop relevant specialist Skills
17. Support budgeting and commercial planning activities
18. Other duties commensurate with the role
19. Supporting HSQE incident investigations where required
20. Supporting new site adoption/onboarding
21. Supporting daily monitor and fault escalation
22. Other duties commensurate with the role
Knowledge
23. Knowledge of central inverters highly desirable
24. Principles of High Voltage operations
25. Strong technical understanding of AC, DC, SCADA, instrumentation and communications networks
26. Good knowledge and understanding of solar PV technology is essential
27. Good knowledge and understanding of HVAC, fire protection, security systems is desirable
28. Good knowledge and understanding of battery storage technology, although training can be given in this area if required
Skills
29. Strong approach to safe working practices
30. Excellent communication skills, fluent written and spoken English
31. Attention to detail
32. Positive, can-do attitude
33. Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
34. Able to respond to changing priorities and emergent issues
35. Enthusiasm for personal development
36. Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to read and interpret schematic diagrams and technical manuals
37. Computer skills for writing reports, reporting progress and communicating by email
38. Passion, Accountability, Collaboration, Excellence
Experience
39. Experience, reading, writing and amending Risk Assessments and Method Statements
40. Experience liaising with equipment vendors to support diagnosis of faults
41. DC and LV installation, fault finding, testing and commissioning
42. Experience of working remotely without close supervision
43. Solar PV installation and O&M experience (MW-scale or large commercial ground-mount)
44. Battery storage installation and O&M experience (MW- scale) is desirable
45. Experience installing or maintaining ethernet and fibre optic communications
46. Experience working with SCADA or data monitoring systems
47. Working with Central inverters
48. Working with High Voltage switchgear
Qualifications
49. Full UK driving licence
50. Approved Electrician
51. Inspection and testing qualifications (C&G 2391 or 2394/5) highly valued
52. First aid qualifications
53. Health & Safety qualifications (. IOSH Managing Safely, SMSTS)