Commissioning Manager Utility-Scale Solar

  • Full time
  • 3 months ago
  • Salem,IL
  • OnSite

Job Description

Founded in 1908, Flintco now employs more than 750 people in 10 cities serving clients in healthcare, renewable energy, education, hospitality, sports and industrial. Flintco also self-performs concrete, steel erection and excavation. Nothing matters more to us than the quality and growth of our people. Our teams are smart, humble and disciplined. Flintco is recognized for its commitment to safety and quality, using Lean principles as a guide to continuous improvement. The five guiding principles of our Ethos are: Safety, Integrity, Quality, Accountability and Honesty. We live it every day.

Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Commissioning Manager in the Renewable Energy market to manage and oversee the commissioning process of large-scale projects. Ensure that systems, facilities, or equipment are installed, tested, and functioning as intended before being handed over to the client.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
All duties and responsibilities include the following; however, other duties may be assigned. To perform in this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  • Oversee commissioning operations from utility scale solar / photovoltaic project kickoff through customer acceptance
  • Responsible for planning, checking, quality assurance, monitoring, evaluation, and preparation of commissioning reports to management. Staff, train, and manage solar commissioning team personnel.
  • Create guidelines and procedures to ensure all project activities are completed according to a standard process, project plan and budget
  • Carry out the commissioning and start-up according to the commissioning, start-up, operation and maintenance manuals.
  • Prepare commissioning documents for each site according to contract obligations. Manage 3rd party testing when necessary. Review and verify completed testing documentation. Ensure project is completed by deadline date.
  • Conduct routine audits as necessary. Interact with engineering to troubleshoot any technical issues.
  • This position requires field visit to local sites and the potential for a small amount of overnight travel
  • Maintains outstanding company-client relationships
  • Maintains high ethical and professional standards within the overall organization
  • Attend safety training and follow safety rules and guidelines
  • Other responsibilities as assigned

Management Responsibilities
May manage direct reports

Knowledge/Skills/Ability
Proficiency with AutoCAD required; Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Excel, Word, and additional computer software; Possesses effective written and oral communications skills; Assists with client contacts and communication pertaining to specific assignments and meetings. Must possess strong technical verbal and technical writing skills and be able to read technical literature and engineering plans. Must demonstrate two-way communication to effectively work with internal staff and external clients. Electrical and mechanical theory. Team supervision. Budgeting procedures. Commissioning operations, start-up and practices for Solar projects, including reading operations and maintenance manuals and procedures. Interpreting engineering drawings. Organizing, instructing and supervising Commissioning crews in all facets of construction. Supervising the testing, commissioning and start-up of high, medium, low voltage and dc equipment / electrical and electronic systems. Leadership and supervision. Writing correspondence and compiling reports. Speaking to groups and making recommendations. Troubleshooting and data analysis. Computer skills.

Education
Bachelors degree in engineering or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience
5 years of experience in a Commissioning Manager role or other relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
None required

Physical Requirements
  • Physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  • While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
  • The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
  • Occasionally, especially when managing multiple projects and during problematic opening and/or closing phases of projects, mental stress can be taxing.
  • May be required to work long hours for extended periods of time.

Special Job Dimensions
The office provides a safe and healthy work environment, is adequately heated and cooled, is free from exposure and extreme conditions, has appropriate lighting and office furnishings, and is smoke-free and drug-free. While performing the duties of this position in the fabrication shop, warehouse, maintenance shop or at a project site, the employee could be regularly exposed to any number of the following, including, but not limited to: moving mechanical parts; moving machinery; high, precarious places (including, but not limited to, being raised several hundred feet in a bucket); close tight quarters; rough and sloped terrain; fumes or airborne particles; drilling and blasting activities; welding activities; toxic or caustic chemicals; the potential of falling rock; and outside weather conditions. The employee may be occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is generally loud.

  • NOTE Where allowed, employees who work in positions classified as safety-sensitive can be disciplined if they test positive for marijuana or its metabolites, even if they have a valid state medical marijuana license. In addition, Flintco may also refuse to hire applicants for safety-sensitive jobs who test positive for marijuana as part of a pre-employment drug test, even if those applicants can produce a valid medical marijuana patient license.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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