Performance Engineer II, EPC (Remote)
Role Overview
The Performance Engineer II oversees day-to-day operational activities for active utility-scale solar projects.
The role supports project onboarding, performance analysis, troubleshooting, reporting, optimization, and client and field coordination.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Overview
The Performance Engineer II oversees day-to-day operational activities for active utility-scale solar projects.
The role supports project onboarding, performance analysis, troubleshooting, reporting, optimization, and client and field coordination.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Collect and consolidate data for reports, acceptance tests, analytical tools, and project deliverables.
- Track fleet issues, troubleshoot equipment and performance data, and correlate commissioning challenges with work order data.
- Calculate energy losses and system performance impacts from outages and underperformance.
- Update commissioning plans, test reports, operations reports, forecasting, yearly guarantees, and client deliverables.
- Coordinate issue resolution with OEM vendors, field technicians, SCADA engineers, clients, and internal teams.
- Manage optimization initiatives, contractual guarantee reviews, project risk discussions, and project reviews.
- Run PVsyst or other energy models and simulate terrain, horizon, shading, snow, soiling, and spectral losses.
- Verify project drawings and maintain accurate workflow templates, procedures, documentation, and status notes.
Minimum Skills and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, science, or a related technical discipline.
- Four or more years of experience in PV performance engineering, capacity testing, and PV data analytics.
- Experience with PVsyst, PlantPredict, SAM, or similar modeling software.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.
- Programming experience with Python, VBA, MATLAB, Java, or other languages is preferred.
- Renewable energy service and construction experience is preferred.
- Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, collaboration, mentoring, and client-facing abilities.
Workplace
- The posting states that the role can be fully remote or hybrid with regular office presence in San Diego, California, or Bend, Oregon.
Compensation
- The listed compensation range is $117,678 to $129,446 yearly.
Benefits
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, a 401(k) plan, vacation, sick leave, and holiday pay.
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