Solar Asset Plant Manager

7 months ago

Sydney, Australia NovaSource Power Full time

**About NovaSource**

NovaSource Power Services (‘NSPS’) is a technical service provider which provides services to owners, developers, and EPCs of renewable generation & storage plants that seek performance reliability. NSPS is an Operations & Maintenance (O&M) company with leadership that has over 20 years of experience and manages over 20GW of Solar PV Plants globally.

NovaSource has the leadership, global reach, and strategic capability to lead the market in this category of technical services both globally and throughout Australia. Through our range of services, our capabilities are structured to optimize every stage of a project lifecycle - from design, construction supervision, commissioning, re-vamping, re-powering, and third-party services with the goal of maximizing performance.

**Basic Job Functions**:
The Solar Asset Manager role encompasses a wide range of capabilities that ultimately ensures the accountability of compliance in operating a utility power plant. This includes but is not limited to the structuring of operational activities including effectively communicating with and reporting to external stakeholders, such as owners, their appointed representatives, and regulatory stakeholders as well as working with site staff to manage contractual requirements.

Working actively with management and field teams, the intent of this role is to ensure management tasks to a high level of efficiency and compliance of the plant, and to maintain a strong knowledge of all aspects of the site. This also includes reacting to new and developing events onsite, and contributing to the content of the operational reports, as defined by the agreement.

These responsibilities include but are not limited to operational excellence within plant operations; coordinating with monitoring and control centre functions and the management of work order and operational reports as defined by each site’s individual agreement.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

**PV installation - Operation and Maintenance responsibility**
- Review the operation of plant equipment and systems continuously, to minimize unplanned downtime, anticipate and solve problems in a timely manner, including identification of opportunities for improvement
- Maximize the overall efficiency & value through interactions with maintenance teams across the fleet
- Be highly conscious of any impacts of outages that can occur in the context of effective availability and performance requirements
- Always challenge the maintenance team to maximize the plant effective availability; maximize value when accomplishing required maintenance
- Maintain a strong understanding of operating contract, operating protocols, transmission and scheduling entity operating handbooks, operating agreements, and any standards or regulations applicable to the generator operator / generator owner

**Receipt of failure alarms**
- Work with Control Centre/Planner Scheduler to review, evaluate and organize for failure correction to be carried out by the Field Technician.
- Oversee that documentation and work records are accurately recorded and reported.

**Creation of Scheduled documentation**
- Ensuring the creation of reports of all PV installations assigned to them are distributed in a timely manner.
- Accurate reporting of the annual maintenance plan (based on checklists, annual maintenance, tickets etc.).
- Understand and deliver comprehensive information to the customer and to prepare or coordinate documentation of activities learned or performed.

**Creation of event-based documentation**
- Responsibilities include the finalisation of event-based reports based on information captured from internal resources such as the Control Centre, Operations Manager and field teams.
- This includes, but is not limited to, reports on additional orders such as vegetation management, retrofitting etc.

**Interface to customers**
- First point of contact for customer inquiries with technical-operative content
- Distribution of reports to the customers
- Contact for customer inquiries regarding the distributed reports
- Participation in periodical telephone conferences with customers

**Additional Orders**
- Independently determine necessary and appropriate additional work and retrofitting for assigned projects
- Calculation of customer offers for additional work as a result of ongoing O&M activities
- Management of delivery of larger additional orders to customers

**Interface function**
- Regular reporting to Senior Management on the latest project status (larger projects, work schedules etc.)
- Regular contact with other work teams throughout the business, including but not limited to Control Centre

**Training**:

- Maintains knowledge of required expertise by identifying opportunities for and attending continued professional development
- Demonstrated understanding of PV and renewable energy power plants, EH&S compliance, management, operations, and maintenance
- A desire to deliver best

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