Sr. Performance Engineer (Remote)

SOLV Energy is an engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and solar services provider for utility solar, high voltage substation and energy storage markets across North America.

Job Description Summary:

The Sr. Performance Engineer will oversee the day-to-day operational activities of active projects & pursuits of SOLV Energy’s O&M and EPC portfolio.

Job Description:

*This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned

Position Responsibilities and Duties:

• 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.

• Support on-boarding/commissioning of O&M/EPC projects into SOLV Energy’s internal platforms.

• Collaborate with fellow Performance Managers, Engineers, Analysts, and Jr. Analysts to track critical issues within 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 operations/commissioning and correlate with workorder data for accurate reporting.

• 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 (e.g. Vitals and EPC Check Tool) and performance calculations.

• Identify and assist with troubleshooting potential issues with analytical tools.

• Using internal tools and new analytics, update and enhance existing reports for clients including Operation reports, Vitals, forecasting, Acceptance tests, and 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 service technicians, SCADA engineers, and other parties as needed.

• Assist and support in data analytics and other tools development.

• Review performance and operations reports randomly to ensure accuracy and to identify operational/performance issues within projects to ensure quality is maintained.

• Track and understand contractual guarantee and conduct periodic meetings to assess projects risk and any possible improvements, remediations, or optimizations.

• Maintain clear and accurate operations documents/procedures for internal reference and training purposes.

• Facilitate a strong working relationship with Performance Engineers, Analysts, and Jr. Analysts while prioritizing project ownership and project success.

• Assist other team members in troubleshooting and identifying operational issues to initiate problem resolutions.

• Facilitate project reviews and ad-hoc requests from clients as needed to address performance of projects. Escalate issues to management as needed.

• Review CMMS workorders and/or commissioning 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 such as site plans, system layout, one lines, cable management, MET layouts, PPC control narratives, and equipment installation details.

• Conduct analyses on equipment such as inverters, PV modules, trackers, eBOS, BESS, or others during the commissioning & testing phase as well as during operation to advise both EPC & O&M teams.

• Work closely