Team Leader

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, 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.

• Line management of a team of Technicians, ensuring adherence to HSQE requirements at all time
• Staff recruitment, training, and competency planning
• Day to day planning alongside the co-ordinator a team of Technicians
• Working with the Coordinator for responding to call outs from the monitoring team
• Attendance at weekly coordination calls and relaying information back to the team
• Always demonstrate leadership for health and safety and help improve safety standards across the team
• Set high standard for quality and compliance of maintenance tasks, and lead by example in this area
• Review and approve work orders in the company CMMS
• 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
• Discuss performance on a weekly to the Solar O&M Manager and demonstrate accountability for the performance of their region
• Ensuring callout rota has full coverage
• 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
• Ensuring records are maintained and the CMMS is used to its fullest extent
• Supporting recruitment and new staff onboarding activities
• Providing support to fill resource gaps within the region
• Maintain and develop relevant specialist Skills
• Support budgeting and commercial planning activities
• Other duties commensurate with the role
• Supporting HSQE incident investigations where required
• Supporting new site adoption/onboarding
• Supporting daily monitor and fault escalation
• Other duties commensurate with the role
  
  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., Knowledge of central inverters highly desirable
• Principles of High Voltage operations
• Strong technical understanding of AC, DC, SCADA, instrumentation and communications networks
• Good knowledge and understanding of solar PV technology is essential
• Good knowledge and understanding of HVAC, fire protection, security systems is desirable
• Good knowledge and understanding of battery storage technology, although training can be given in this area if required
Skills
• Strong approach to safe working practices
• Excellent communication skills, fluent written and spoken English
• Attention to detail
• Positive, can-do attitude
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Able to respond to changing priorities and emergent issues
• Enthusiasm for personal development
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to read and interpret schematic diagrams and technical manuals
• Computer skills for writing reports, reporting progress and communicating by email
• Passion, Accountability, Collaboration, Excellence
Experience
• Experience, reading, writing and amending Risk Assessments and Method Statements
• Experience liaising with equipment vendors to support diagnosis of faults
• DC and LV installation, fault finding, testing and commissioning
• Experience of working remotely without close supervision
• Solar PV installation and O&M experience (MW-scale or large commercial ground-mount)
• Battery storage installation and O&M experience (MW- scale) is desirable
• Experience installing or maintaining ethernet and fibre optic communications
• Experience working with SCADA or data monitoring systems
• Working with Central inverters
• Working with High Voltage switchgear
Qualifications
• Full UK driving licence
• Approved Electrician
• Inspection and testing qualifications (C&G 2391 or 2394/5) highly valued
• First aid qualifications
• Health & Safety qualifications (e.g. IOSH Managing Safely, SMSTS)
  
  We're the world's largest independent renewable energy company, guided by a simple yet powerful vision to create a future where everyone has access to affordable, zero carbon energy.
We know that achieving our ambitions would be impossible without our people. Because we're tackling some of the world's toughest problems, we need the very best people to help us. They're our most important asset so that's why we continually invest in them. RES is a family with a diverse workforce, and we are dedicated to the personal and professional growth of our people, no matter what stage of their careers they're at. We can promise you rewarding work which makes a real impact, the chance to learn from inspiring colleagues from across a growing, global network and opportunities to grow personally and professionally.

Our competitive package offers a wide range of benefits and rewards.