Manager - Solar Operations

Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company is an independent power producer (IPP) and a leading climate-focused investment manager (IM), whose mission is to empower a sustainable world by connecting individuals and institutions with investments in clean energy. Since our founding in 2011, we've grown to over 180 employees in four offices-New York City, Portland, ME, Denver, CO, and Montpelier, VT-and other individual locations across the US, and have positioned ourselves as a market leader in energy transition, renewable energy, and sustainable infrastructure investments.
Greenbacker's IPP business segment acquires, owns, and operates income-producing clean energy infrastructure projects (e.g., solar energy, wind power, energy storage) in communities across the country. These assets sell power under long-term contracts to high-credit-quality counterparties, including utilities, municipalities, and corporations. As of 2023, our IPP fleet comprises over 450 projects, representing 3.4 gigawatts of total clean energy production and storage capacity. Within our IM business segment, Greenbacker Capital Management (GCM) serves as the registered investment adviser to five funds focused on green power generation and the energy transition, including private equity investment in growth-stage clean energy companies, across a wide range of sustainable infrastructure and renewables sectors.
Drawing upon the firm's expertise in renewable power generation, battery storage, and other green technologies, Greenbacker is expanding its IM business and launching a sustainable real estate fund with a focus on reducing buildings' carbon emissions, improving energy efficiency, and building additional sources of renewable power. Greenbacker has hired a senior executive with over 20 years and $25 billion of commercial real estate principal investment experience to manage this new vehicle and is actively growing the real estate investment team.
Please visit www.greenbackercapital.com to learn more about our company, mission, team, and portfolios.
Greenbacker is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Greenbacker will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Nicole Giangiulio (nicole.giangiulio@greenbackercapital.com).
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Job Purpose/Background:
As Greenbacker continues to raise capital and grow our investment portfolio, an opportunity has arisen to join Greenbacker Capital Management as Manager, Solar Operations. The selected individual will work and train closely with the Field Operations team while also working independently to manage day-to-day operations of our maintenance subcontractors, analyze asset performance, improve standard operating procedure, assess deliverables, and help Field Operations with construction monitoring and technical due diligence of pre-COD assets. The Field Operations team is responsible for operating our existing solar & wind assets as well as conducting technical diligence on new acquisitions. As a small and evolving firm, the responsibilities will be broad, varied, and all encompassing. Additionally, in joining a growing team there is significant opportunity to gain responsibility and perform high-level tasks earlier than what is typical at larger organizations; such opportunity will be based solely on the merits of the individual joining our team.
Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as Field Operations point of contact for daily operation of a 100-200+ MW solar and/or BESS asset portfolio. This includes ensuring timely dispatch, remote technical support, coordinating follow-up actions, and expense approvals with contractors.
• Enforce consistent, high-quality deliverables to our asset management software platform from subcontractors and internal staff.
• Plan, manage and review all maintenance activities for our C&I solar assets.
• Identify opportunities to improve asset health through inventory, sustainability, and partner management.
• Help refine departmental processes and procedures with the goal of providing organized and successful operation of our fleet, projected to grow to over 3GW of installed capacity over the next several years.
• Proactively identify potential issues that could cause asset performance or otherwise affect forecasted revenue and make strategic decisions to avoid and prevent these issues from arising.
• Assist with complex technical due diligence and risk assessment for new assets being acquired or achieving permission to operate.
• Work with Performance Engineering to optimize our monitoring platforms.
• Monitor the performance of portfolio assets and assist with the overall optimization of returns on the portfolio.
• Flexibility through proper time management to support the team or specific members with high-priority items not exclusive to the defined portfolio.
• There may be occasional project-related travel for onsite objectives and industry events.

Qualifications, Skills and Attributes:

• Highly proficient in learning new software tools and their advanced capabilities. It will be expected that you become an expert at our platforms in short order.
• Experience in a problem-solving role exclusive to the renewable energy industry.
• Experience with renewable energy project construction and/or operation.
• A true "self-starter". We are a small team and need someone to bring the full breadth of their skills, expertise, and intellect to work every day to help the business grow and improve, and not just be a person content to complete tasks and wait for direction.
• Detail-oriented. Someone who will get the small things right, leave no stone unturned in the quest for precision and accuracy and document the process thoroughly.
• Interested in and have 2-3 years management experience in renewable energy and energy markets.
• Experience with renewable energy data acquisition equipment and an ability to navigate the platforms with ease.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to manage workload autonomously and effectively.
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to apply commercial judgment. Inquisitive, detail-oriented, self-motivated.
• Practices excellent time management with a strong ability to multitask.
• Willingness to work with a highly motivated, experienced group of professionals in an open office environment a must.
• A team player who enjoys a friendly but professional team dynamic.

Benefits
Medical: Insperity/ 5 United Health Care options (3 PPO's and 2 High Deductible Health Plans) / 100% employer paid for employee; 50% employer paid for spouse and children
Dental: Guardian - two options / 100% employer paid for employee; 50% employer paid for spouse and children
Vision: Guardian / VSP - two options / 100% employee paid
Life and AD&D: Unum / 100% employer paid / 2 times annual up to $700K
Short term disability: Unum / 100% employer paid / 60% base; $1,500 weekly max
Long term disability: Unum / 100% employer paid / 60% base; $15,000 monthly max
Retirement: Insperity ~ various stock, bond and lifestyle fund options / 50% match up to 6% of salary
Other: Medical and dependent care / Health Savings Accounts / Pre-tax commuter benefits / 20 days paid time off & 7 sick days, Modern Health: 24/7 access to Coaching and Therapy sessions for employees' and dependents
Parental Leave Benefits: 16 weeks paid leave for employees who have been with the company for 1+ years
Family Building Benefits/Fertility Benefits Provided through a Fertility HRA of up to $25,000 annually
Adoption/Surrogacy: financial support to employees who are growing their families through the adoption of a child or a surrogacy parenting arrangement. Through this program, Greenbacker offers partial reimbursement for up to seventy-five percent (75%) of the costs, limited to twelve thousand dollars (USD 12,000) per adoption or birth by surrogacy to cover related expenses.