Performance Engineer II (Remote)

Summary

SOLV Energy provides infrastructure services for the power industry, including utility-scale solar, battery storage, and high-voltage substation projects. The Performance Engineer II - O&M oversees day-to-day operational activities for active projects, analyzing system performance, troubleshooting issues, coordinating teams, and supporting optimization and reporting activities.

Responsibilities

• Stresses the importance that safety is the most important function, ensures that all employees from field team to office follow safe practices while working
• Collaborate with internal teams to collect and consolidate necessary data to complete reports, Acceptance tests, other analytical tools, and deliverables
• Responsible for the on-boarding of active projects into SOLV Energy’s internal Performance Team’s platforms
• Collaborate with fellow Performance Engineers I & II to track critical issues within the construction and/or operational fleet (equipment, parts, manufacturers, etc.) and share findings with internal teams with a common goal of fleet optimization
• Troubleshoot performance data/equipment to determine and track challenges associated with commissioning and correlate with workorder data for accurate reporting
• Lead Performance Engineers I & II in day-to-day coordination and management of operational activities relating to projects
• Maintain a thorough understanding of site design, equipment and current issues affecting projects
• Calculate and analyze energy losses and system performance incurred from equipment outages/underperformance and communicate impacts to relevant internal and external teams using internal tools and ad-hoc analyses
• Maintain a thorough understanding of analytical tools and performance calculations and best practices
• Identify and assist with troubleshooting potential issues using analytical tools
• Using internal tools, update existing reports for clients including Commissioning Plans, Test Reports, Operation reports, Vitals, forecasting, and Yearly Guarantees
• Help support work prioritization for field teams based on criticality and occurrences of failures
• Identify operational issues and initiate problem resolution while working with OEM vendors, field technicians, SCADA engineers, and other parties as needed
• Work with Performance Engineers and Performance Engineering Managers in assisting and supporting data analytics and other software tools development
• Review performance and operations reports and analyses generated by Performance Engineers I & II to ensure accuracy and to identify operational/performance issues within projects
• Manage plant performance optimization initiatives and collaborate with fellow Performance Engineers, Field & Project Management team and client
• Track and understand contractual guarantee and conduct periodic meetings to assess projects risk and any possible improvements, remediations, or optimizations
• Maintain clear and accurate documents/procedures for internal reference and training purposes
• Facilitate a strong working relationship with fellow Performance Engineers while prioritizing project ownership and project success
• Facilitate project reviews and ad-hoc requests from clients as needed to address performance of projects. Escalate issues to management as needed
• Review turnover documentation to review/monitor various root causes for equipment underperformance and failure modes
• Run and evaluate PV system energy models for Utility Scale Solar PV Projects using PVsyst or other modeling software as needed
• Verify project drawings including site plans, system layout, one lines, cable management, and equipment installation details
• Create project specific troubleshooting/reporting templates as applicable and also maintain or improve the workflow task templates with new updates as needed
• Execute all tasks as assigned in the Performance Engineering Workflow Process while maintaining accurate and up-to-date status notes
• Perform and track different simulations in the PVsyst such: Impacts of terrain, Horizon losses, Tree or external shading, Snow, Soiling and Spectral Losses
• Grow into a role of subject matter expert in PV power plants
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, science, or a related technical discipline
• 4+ Years' experience in PV Performance Engineering or 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
• Ability to travel up to 20% of time
• Foster 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 I/II
• Experience with programming languages like Python, VBA, MATLAB, Java, and others preferred
• Broad understanding of the Renewable Energy industry with emphasis on Service and Construction preferred

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, science, or a related technical discipline
• 4+ Years' experience in PV Performance Engineering or 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
• Ability to travel up to 20% of time
• Foster 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 I/II

Nice to Haves

• Experience with programming languages like Python, VBA, MATLAB, Java, and others preferred
• Broad understanding of the Renewable Energy industry with emphasis on Service and Construction preferred

Benefits

• Employees (and their families) are eligible for medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance.
• Employees can enroll in our company’s 401(k) plan.
• Employees are provided vacation, sick and holiday pay.