BESS Dispatch Technician

BESS Dispatch Technician
Location: South Houston, TX (Alvin Area)
Employment Type: Full-Time/Field, Traveling
Reports to: Senior Field Manager, Storage & Hybrid O&M
Travel: Regular overnight travel across South Texas

Clean Energy Services (CES) is an independent, execution-first operations and maintenance (O&M) provider purpose-built to support complex, utility-scale solar, battery energy storage and hybrid assets. Our platform combines dedicated field teams, a 24/7 Remote Operations Center (ROC), and deep operating expertise to reduce operational risk, improve availability, and protect long-term asset value.

You will be based at a large operating battery storage site south of Houston and dispatched to two unmanned utility-scale BESS sites, one in the Rio Grande Valley and one in South-Central Texas. Both are ERCOT-connected and transmission-level. Nobody else is on these sites day to day, so when you are there you are the CES presence.

This job needs a technician who can walk up to a dark panel and find the problem. You will run scheduled maintenance visits, respond when the ROC dispatches you, and take troubleshooting as far as it can safely go before you call anyone. That includes ordinary things like a tripped breaker on a 120 V panel, a sensor alarm or a fiber connection that got knocked loose.

When you can't fix it, you isolate it, document it, and put it in front of the right OEM with the evidence they need. The owners read our reports, so clear and accurate communication counts as much as the wrench work.

• Respond to ROC-dispatched alarms, site outages and emergency call-outs
• Diagnose and isolate faults across balance-of-plant: AC and DC auxiliary power, control circuits, fire detection, communications and fiber, EMS and SCADA interfaces
• Clear unit faults and support return to service in coordination with the ROC and EMS integrator
• During an outage or emergency, send accurate daily summary updates in the CES format until the site is restored

• Execute scheduled monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual visit checklists at each site, and record every result
• Inspect MV transformers, switch gear, breakers, relays and cable terminations; torque checks and thermographic scans
• Walk the site with your eyes open. Look behind the panels and along the fiber, and catch the loose connection before the OEM does
• Support substation outages, switching and LOTO under approved orders and qualified switching leadership

• Coordinate and oversee battery and inverter OEM crews and subcontractors using the CES visit forms: sign-in, scope, LOTO and work summary
• Identify warranty issues, document them and open claims with the CES warranty team, respecting OEM warranty boundaries
• Count and report spare parts and consumables at each site

• Produce a same-day report after every site visit: work completed, work in progress, findings, parts used, follow-ups and hours
• Keep inspection records audit-ready to support monthly reports, NERC and ERCOT requirements

• CES technicians support each other across disciplines. Your core role is dispatched BESS maintenance and response. When you are at your home site and your schedule permits, and for specific tasks that need additional support, you will assist the technicians there, within your training and qualifications
• Report daily to the Senior Field Manager on work status, priorities and schedule
• Other duties as assigned by the Senior Field Manager

• Perform all work in accordance with NFPA 70E, OSHA, NEC / NESC and CES safety policies, and NFPA 855
• Conduct job hazard analyses and tailboards before work begins, and exercise stop-work authority any…