Solar Maintenance Technician

• Job Title: Solar Maintenance Technician
• Job Location: Greater Houston Area, TX
• Travel Percentage: 75-100%
• Position Type: Full Time
• Reports to: Solar Maintenance Regional Manager

Company Overview

Clean Energy Services (CES) was founded to focus on providing high quality operations and maintenance (O&M) services for the renewable energy industry. Our vision is to provide clients with best-in-class services and technology for wind, solar, and energy storage. We place quality and safety first to provide reliable services for renewable assets.

CES is a dynamic, fast-growing company and offers its employees ample opportunity for growth. In 2022 CES grew from 0 to 40 employees working in Wind, Battery Storage and Solar. CES is continuing to grow quickly, creating significant advancement opportunities for high-performing team members.

CES offers a competitive salary, guaranteed working hours and health, dental and vision insurance.

CES is an equal opportunity employer.

Job Description

The Solar Maintenance Technician role is central to CES’ mission to provide reliable services for renewable assets. CES relies on its Solar Maintenance Technicians to perform high quality routine and corrective work on solar power plants, enabling plants to perform at maximum efficiency. CES focuses on training and career development so that its technicians are seen by customers as among the most technically advanced in the industry. In this role, you’ll have

Key Responsibilities

• Foster and drive a strong safety culture, participating in toolbox talks and behavioral observations to ensure all staff and subcontractors understand their role in complying with applicable safety standards and best practices.
• Perform routine maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair work on mechanical and electrical components of solar power plants.
• Inspect data and adjust settings on computerized devices installed at solar power plants.
• Follow standard operating procedures and direction from supervisor at all times, while not hesitating to stop work and request clarification if any action seems unsafe.
• Follow lockout/tagout procedures at all times and do not interfere with lockout/tagout devices affixed by others.
• Create excellent work order documentation (including photos where applicable) of all work performed, challenges encountered, parts used, suspected root cause, and any other notable conditions observed while on site. This will done via daily reports and as well as a suite of other project management tools
• Support and foster a culture in which every individual on-site is empowered and encouraged to stop the job when not comfortable with the order of operations or task at hand.
• Perform quality assurance inspections on newly onboarded solar sites and prepare reports detailing any deviations from drawing sets, electrical code, or industry best practices.
• Consistently demonstrate good housekeeping practices, keeping work areas clean and properly disposing of any debris upon task completion.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Experience/Qualifications/Education Required

• High school diploma or GED.
• Understanding of basic electric principles.
• Experience working safely with hand tools and performing mechanical troubleshooting or repair work.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Google Suite applications, and capability to learn new software programs quickly with minimal formal training.
• 20/40 vision with or without corrective lenses.
• Ability to work outdoors, including in cold temperatures and in hot temperatures while wearing arc flash protective suits.
• Ability to climb stairs and ladders necessary to access rooftop equipment.
• Ability to distinguish colors.
• Ability to lift 50 pounds overhead.
• Ability to wear standard required personal protective equipment.
• Ability to be on call during assigned evening and weekend hours and respond to any urgent work orders that may arise during on call time.
• Valid driver’s license and clean driving record.

Additional Requirements

All CES employees are required to work in accordance with the CES’ code of conduct, which is based on 4 key values:

• Safety: Safe is how we do our work. Everyone in the organization is responsible for performing their work in a safe manner and obligated to stop the job if it cannot be executed safely.
• Quality: The execution of every CES project - no matter the size or scope - is held to the highest standard of quality. We expect all CES employees to strive for excellence daily.
• Trust: Trust is essential to Clean Energy Services’ success. We do the right thing and can trust each other to do the right thing.

• Efficiency: We always seek to increase efficiency in the work we do. This means looking for improvements whenever, wherever. Everyone in the organization is expected to speak up and listen to suggestions for improvements.