Solar Technical Coordinator

Main Purpose:

Responsible for supporting the projects team with engineering and technical support for all solar/hybrid projects globally.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Quality Management System Compliance
• Comply and support the Quality Management system in all aspects of your role.
• Adopt and implement the principles of continuous improvement in all aspects of your role.
• Ensure the awareness of customer requirements (internal & external) are promoted throughout the business.
• Review, monitor and provide feedback on the effectiveness of the quality management system.
• Engage, support and continuously improve communication processes that support the quality management system and provide positive outcomes for the business, customers and key stakeholders.

Workplace Health & Safety

As a worker;

• Take reasonable care and personal responsibility for your own health and safety
• Take reasonable care that your acts or omissions do not adversely affect the health and safety of other persons
• Comply, so far as you are reasonably able, with any reasonable instruction and training that is given
• Co-operate with any reasonable policy or procedure relating to health, safety or environment at the workplace that has been notified to you
• Attend and actively participate in consultative arrangements such as toolbox talks and risk assessments
  Ensure vigilance and awareness of your workplace to ensure that any hazards, incidents, accidents or near-hits are reported to your supervisor.
• Use machinery and equipment (including personal protective equipment-PPE) only in accordance with the procedures and training provided to you.
• Be familiar with evacuation and emergency procedures and the location of first aid and fire equipment.
• Ensure your activities do not cause, or are not likely to cause, environmental harm
• Minimise waste; separate reusable and recyclable materials from the general waste stream, use bins provided.

Key Responsibilities:

1.DESIGN & ENGINEERING:

Required to work with the Project team to design and evaluate PV Projects and Engineering for tenders and/or customer proposals (solar PV and hybrid systems), as per international standards including:

• Civil and Electro-Mechanical engineering:

Design and evaluation of layouts for PV plant, SLDs, Distribution Boards and HSE.

• Sizing Calculations:

Solar Sizing (load analysis), DC, AC Cable sizing, Tray sizing, Battery Sizing.

Execute Load and Shading analysis and evaluate the impact on Energy prediction of the Plant.

• Hybrid energy systems:

Design and evaluation of hybrid systems (Solar/Battery/Genset/Grid).

• Bill of Materials:

Preparation and evaluation of Detailed Bill of Materials, Project costing and economic analysis.

Cost Estimation of Pre-Awarded & Post-Awarded Project.

2. PROJECT EXECUTION: 

Support the Projects team in preparing/reviewing /following up the project program and obtaining information required for satisfying design, procurement and construction requirements.

Create, execute and evaluate tenders and RFPs.

Select the required components in the most commercial and cost-effective way. Review the design prepared by contractors/consultants as:

• Construction Engineering Designs such as detail and assembly drawings, design Calculations, Physical Layouts following the mentioned design expertise.

• Civil and Electro-Mechanical engineering, hybrid system designs and quotations.

• Electrical Testing and inspection documents.

• Detailed Bill of Materials, Project costing.

3. SUPERVISION:

Coordinate project execution activities to ensure that projects are implemented within budget and schedule and project site is controlled and managed per internal standards.

Through project coordination meetings and other means, monitors progress against project schedules and budgets.

Follow up on action plan derived from construction contract dispute resolution meetings.

Provide technical assistance, instruction and training to team members

Continue to own the project through commissioning and handover

4.PROJECT FINANCING:

Review proposals, keeping track of project finance and costing, highlight deviation

Requirements:

Qualifications:

• Candidate must possess at least Diploma/Higher/Graduate Diploma/Bachelor Degrees in Electrical engineering

Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years of proven and progressive engineering and/or project execution experience.
• Experience in solar and energy projects (battery, hybrid, distributed energy)
• Experience in grid transmission lines and electrical codes
• Experience in thermal (gas, diesel etc) would also be beneficial
  Cost estimation experience

Skills:

• Fluent English: Fluent written and oral communication skills.
• Intermediate Spanish: Would also be beneficial
• Advanced knowledge of: AutoCAD, MS Office, PV Syst, Helioscope, HOMER
• Ability to execute several projects simultaneously.
• Setting up new systems and processes

Competencies:

• Getting things done
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Design Engineering Skills
• Team player
• Flexible and pragmatic
• Customer meetings and technical discussions
• Key Relationships and Department Overview:

Key Relationships:

Internal: 

• Solar Project & Operations Manager
• Solar commercial teams
• Solar Executive Director
• Puma construction and operations team

External:

• Third party vendors
• Contractors
• Service providers
• Customers
• Regulators