Manager, Asset Performance Engineering; 3rd Party Solar), Operations Engineering

Invenergy Performance Engineer

Invenergy is North America's largest privately held developer, owner, and operator of power infrastructure. With 25 years of trusted execution, we deliver reliable, affordable energy through a diverse portfolio that includes natural gas, solar, land-based wind, energy storage, transmission, and domestic manufacturing. Headquartered in Chicago, we develop, own, and operate large scale projects that power communities and support the energy future.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and grow a team of performance engineers
• Collaborate with cross functional groups to resolve fleet or process issues, including other technical teams, Asset Management, O&M leadership, and Operations Support teams
• Identify, evaluate, and resolve process improvement opportunities to enable performance engineers to maximize energy production of their sites.
• Interface with equipment manufacturers to resolve technical issues and develop best operating practices.
• Identify needed documentation and work with team to develop procedures and technical documentation regarding the safe and efficient operation of solar facilities.
• Understand Invenergy Services' scope of services across the 3rd Party fleet. Expand Invenergy's capabilities as a third-party operator.
• Identify technical training needs of performance engineers and strategize how to fill team knowledge gaps
• Lead engineers in the investigation of field failures
• Identify and assign pilot projects to evaluate new equipment, tools, or processes
• Lead performance engineers in the onboarding of new solar projects into the operating fleet
• Lead engineers in supporting the end-of-warranty inspection process at facilities
• Work with Invenergy's performance analytics team to develop new monitoring strategies and predictive analytics for solar facilities.
• Collaborate with internal Solar development and project management teams to incorporate Operations lessons learned into new projects.
• Some travel is required (