O&M Engineer - - Johannesburg

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide assistance to the O&M team with troubleshooting technical issues.
Where required, design solutions and prepare the associated quote for those work.

Act as Owners Engineer for Build Own Operate plants, these responsibilities include:

Daily monitoring of Meteo Control & Grafana and other PV Plant monitoring platforms.
Review offline meter list.
Review offline inverter list.
Review PR performance of previous day’s plant performance and prioritise investigation, accordingly, following O&M Process Flow Excel sheet.
Track plant performance against contractual obligation.
Investigation at string level to be completed once per month.
Raise ticket for any problems detected.
Attend Daily ticket discussion and review with all PM’s on discussion around the identified issues, raise new tickets and debrief on resolved issues previously discussed .
Follow up on open tickets.
Tickets to be raised on all platforms until such time as it is communicated that SYNERGY will be the only platform utilised.
Ensure that the ticket process is closed and client reporting and TFS stakeholder communication is carried out.
Client liaison IRO general communication as and when required IRO of maintenance schedules, events, follow-ups and follow throughs of quotations with the client and TFS stakeholders.
Alert Account manager / Client as to significant System events by next business day .
PVDB offline.
Inverter offline.
>10% of DC plant offline.
Communicate with Site Operational staff that cleaning/technical teams arrival (this pertains to monitoring all platforms where the cleaning / technical team discuss arrangements).
Prepare responses to client queries within the agreed 3 days.
Prepare specific portfolio performance feedback prior to 7th of each month o During building of new BOO, complete site quality and document inspections.

Liaison with the O&M manager for cleaning schedules:

Review performance post cleaning of plant.
If plant is underperforming – alert cleaning team to prioritize scheduling.
Daily and weekly liaison and coordination with the O&M manager to manage reworks and quoted repairs.

Document control:

Keeping the site-specific maintenance records up to date by logging the specific dates that plants were serviced.
Review of post construction handover documentation and ensuring that the electronic copies are captured into the relevant O&M folders on SharePoint.
Coordinate with TFS legal ensuring that the relevant SLA is completed for each project.
Coordinate with the TFS Project Manager, Engineer and Construction Commissioner in respect of the requirements of Project Review (PR) 5 & 6 o Ensuring that all deliverables are complete prior to project take-on o Monitor plant in accordance with the O&M contract.
Notify contracts for renewal 3 months prior to contractual end.
Generate annual performance reports for Clients if required.
Facilitate discussions with clients with regards to expiring warrantees on plant equipment.
Manage bi-annual inspection.

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