Sr Engineer / Assistant Manager – Asset Management(Gujarat)

Job Summary: The company is looking to recruit an ambitious and energetic Senior Engineer / Assistant Manager- Asset Management, who will help candi to lead the revolution of solar. Given that candi is taking solar into a new realm with a new set of tools, the role will require creativity, innovation and a new way of thinking. 

Specifically, the job requires taking ownership of the following for the India AM team:

• Human and equipment safety compliance

• Maintaining proper plant safety infrastructure
• Training of onsite person as per the Disaster management plan

• Preventive Maintenance Compliance

• Finalise plant wise preventive maintenance calendar and periodically update the same
• Expedite the PPM activity as per the schedule and maintain a tracker
• Maintaining a repository of all the plant wise maintenance reports
• Carry out timely hardware and firmware upgrades

• Module cleaning compliance

• Ensuring proper access arrangements and permissions to the cleaning team
• Ensuring proper availability of infrastructure and water for module cleaning
• Carrying out pilots and deployments of advance module cleaning techniques to meet generation requirements

• Breakdown maintenance and plant normalisation after faults

• Carrying out root cause analysis and maintaining a breakdown history reports
• Expedite the restorations at site level

• Periodic calibration of sensors / meters

• Arranging and installing backup sensors / meters at site if the original sensor/ meter is expected to be sent at the vendor's premises
• Manage transit of sensors and updating the asset register accordingly
• Provide remote access to the vendor if sensor / meter can be calibrated remotely

• Maintain efficient spares inventory

• Maintain the onsite spares and consumables as per the prescribed shelf-life guidelines
• Track the consumption of spares and consumables by maintaining repository using a suitable software tool
• Timely generating alerts related to exhaustion of minimum required quantity

• Reporting and documentation

• Regularly collect AM data for reporting
• Create and share generation reports to all the stakeholders (Including customers if required)

• Site Performance improvements

• Expedite implementations as per the finalisation of remedies
• Monitor the plant performance after the solution is deployed

• Billing and collections

• Carry out Joint meter readings for meter generation and get the certification from the customer plant representative

• Project coordination

• Carry out regular visits at the sites under construction for quality review and raising of snag lists
• Coordinate with respective project teams for efficient project handover as per the company process

Location: Gujarat/Chhattisgarh/Bangalore

Hours: Full time. 

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of Experience in PV solar O&M / Asset Management
• Bachelor’s Degree / Diploma in Electrical Engineering
• Basic computer understanding and reporting skills are a must
• Should be willing to travel at sites whenever required
• Having exposure to HT networks and transformer maintenance is a must

Working Culture:

• You agree to live out the candi values every day of your employment: this includes to put empathy before ego, being authentic no matter what, that we get it done as one and follow the candi principle that less is more
• A dynamic, cross-functional team player, willing to take initiative on projects in the context of a multicultural scale-up trying to execute big, bold ideas.
• Having experience working for an international company, or having studied or worked abroad, is considered a plus.
• You must be open, honest, trustworthy, a strong communicator, and understand that what we get done as a team surpasses what we get done individually.
• candi is an equal opportunities employer.

candi is unique because...

• We focus on helping businesses of all sizes in emerging markets get access to cheap, clean rooftop solar energy.
• We have a strong emphasis on a client-centric & innovation-driven working culture.
• We are an international team where hybrid working is commonplace, where we trust our team members to actively carve out a role for themselves according to their skillset.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted.