Description:
SunVena is looking for a highly motivated candidate for a Service Technician role. The position will report to the Service Manager and will be an integral member of the team focused on completing service calls as dispatched, providing diagnostic, troubleshooting solar panel systems and electrical, preventive and corrective maintenance services to SunVenas photovoltaic (PV) systems.
The ideal candidate will be comfortable traveling to customer homes or businesses to perform equipment and machine repairs. The service technician will install and test products and provide customers with instructions on the proper usage of the product. To be successful as a service technician, you should have excellent technical and mechanical skills. You will need basic knowledge of hand, power, and diagnostic equipment and tools.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the preventative and corrective maintenance of Photovoltaic (PV) inverters, string boxes and solar panels and other components
- Assist in the commissioning of the solar array and monitoring systems during project installation when needed
- Ensure that PV systems are setup correctly
- Perform re-roofs, roof repairs, drywall repairs as needed
- Install hardware, PV modules, inverters and monitoring equipment
- Perform commissioning of inverters and inspection of solar panels
- Mechanical/structural mounting of racking, modules and electrical equipment
- Respond to corrective maintenance cases on PV inverters, string boxes and solar panels. This includes troubleshooting, testing, and repairing activities
- Electrical wiring of solar array/system (AC and DC)
- Perform voltage testing using appropriate PPE and procedures
- Ensure tasks are performed according to organizational requirements for quality management and environmental, health and safety standards, policies and procedures
- Ability to understand or have experience in Electrical Panels including Sub Panels (MBD derate, conduit bending, relocating circuits, etc.)
- Ability to understand or have experience in Monitoring equipment (Cat5, Zigbee, Router, Range Extender and ETC )
- Ability to troubleshoot an inverter that is reporting production loss
- Ability to understand or have experience with all types of Solar Equipment (Enphase, Tesla, SolarEdge,SMA)
- Experience in Electrical troubleshooting (Power outage, shorts, faults, and ETC )
- Understand of battery backup systems (Enphase, LG and ETC )
- Understanding of Standalone Metering equipment (CT for production and consumption)
- Complete RMAs and log project documentation
Requirements:
Qualifications Requirements
- Able to work safety with heights on ladders and in confined areas
- Be able to lift, pull and push materials and equipment to complete assigned job tasks
- Must be willing and able to climb ladders, stairs, work on rooftops and able to work on your feet for long periods of time
- Must be able to meet the physical requirements of the job which include bending, lifting heavy equipment (50lbs +) and working in confined spaces.
- Ability to work in various environments (example: hot sun, cold, rain, crawl spaces, etc.)
- Must have a valid state driver’s license
As part of our hiring process, we require all potential employees to undergo a drug test. We take the safety and well-being of our employees and customers very seriously, and believe that maintaining a drug-free workplace is essential. Therefore, we require all candidates to pass a drug screening before we can consider them for employment.
SunVena is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.