Pv Field Technician

What You Can Expect

Our Senior Photovoltaic (PV) Technician will be located in Massachusetts, and will be travelling regularly through a growing service area that currently covers sites in Cape Cod, Lanesborough, and Worcester, MA. The Sr. PV Technician will be responsible for safely performing preventative maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of a large number of small solar projects. Currently the largest site is about 5 Megawatts (MW) and is located on Cape Cod. This Sr. Technician will be supporting this and other Client Sites typically located in Massachusetts, but will also take you throughout the Northeastern U.S. completing planned preventative maintenance cycles and other maintenance as needed.

Every day, you’ll prioritize safety in everything that you do. You will be traveling to client sites, frequently to Cape Cod, MA, safely driving your company provided truck. Servicing both ground arrays (up to 5 MW) owned by municipalities or corporations and smaller rooftop systems at some of your most recognizable corporations. Typical tasks are cleaning and testing panels, troubleshooting inverters, servicing or updating networking / SCADA hardware/ software. You will be discussing service and upgrade options with the Regional Service Manager, and clients in the field, both on the phone and by completing detailed service reports explaining findings, actions taken and recommendations for future maintenance and upgrades.

Respond to trouble tickets in a reasonable timely fashion

Develop work scopes for service work orders on repairs issues that require subcontracted assistance

Perform scheduled annual preventative maintenance services for PV systems

Review annual preventative maintenance service reports to identify issues that require follow up corrective action. Provide feedback to the Regional Service Manager and plan the corrective action for scope of work

Timely maintain detailed expense records for all service calls including parts costs, tools, mileage, and timekeeping utilizing company provided software tools

What You’ll Bring

This position requires a minimum of a High School Diploma or GED Equivalent

This role requires a minimum of five years of experience

Where you will have learned to abide by and understand the safety requirements of the NEC electrical code, NFPA70 and OSHA 30

You will have developed expertise in PV design, installation, and/or maintenance

You will have developed expertise in troubleshooting PV systems starting with the review of the PV System performance reports and then troubleshooting the underperformance issues as well as outages by troubleshooting arrays, inverters, and networking systems to the root cause

You will have gained experience with applying technical requirements to commissioning, troubleshooting of solar electrical generation systems, and monitoring communication equipment

You will have gained experience in being collaborative and communicative with peers, management and clients to receive and complete daily tasks and provide well developed and descriptive advice and updates on services rendered or additional services or equipment needed to complete assigned work

You will have experience in complying with contract terms as stated by an O&M and/or Performance Guarantee contract. Specifically pertaining to the maintenance to be performed on customer sites with respect to customer safety requirements, such as site access terms and conditions

Additional Details

This is a field position requiring regular travel to client site(s)

Must be available to travel domestically up to 90% of the time with the need of up to 50% overnight stays

Must possess a valid state issued driver’s license/clean driving record, as this role requires safe operation of a company vehicle

Must be willing and able to comply with ENGIE’s policy with respect to COVID vaccination and testing

Must be willing and able to comply with all ENGIE ethics and safety policies

Ability to communicate and give report effectively, on highly technical information both written (Word / Outlook) and verbally

The position consists of 100% work outdoors; outdoor work may expose the employee to weather conditions

Could involve some lifting / up to 50lbs

Compensation

Salary Range: $40.39 - $61.92 USD hourly

ENGIE complies with all federal, state, and local minimum wage laws. Actual salary offered may vary depending on geography, experience, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors.

In addition to base pay, this position is eligible for a competitive bonus / incentive plan.

Your Talent Acquisition Partner can share more specific information regarding the benefits or the salary for the position based on the work location

At ENGIE, we take your well-being seriously. Our comprehensive benefits package includes options for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, ESPP, generous paid time off including wellness days, holidays and leave programs. We also help you plan for retirement by offering a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a company match. But that's not all – we're dedicated to the health and happiness of your entire family, offering supplemental benefits for full time employees that enhance emotional and physical well-being through all stages of life from family forming to caregiver benefits. Explore our benefits package to see how we can support you. Learn more.

Why ENGIE?

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We are committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

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The safety of our employees is our number one priority. All employees at ENGIE have both a duty and the authority to STOP WORK if unsafe acts are observed.