BESS Maintenance Specialist- Solar

BESS Maintenance Specialist

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Storm Duty Requirements Tampa Electric and its sister companies serve a role in providing critical services to our community during an emergency. Team members are required to participate in the response/recovery activities related to emergencies/disasters to maintain service to our Tampa Electric customers. Team members are required to work in their normal job duties or other assigned activities. Proper compensation will be made in accordance with the company's rules and procedures.

Responding to storms will be considered a condition of employment.

The Maintenance Specialist - Battery & Energy Storage System (BESS) is primary focused on supporting the development, implementation and administering an industry best practice approach to cost effectively achieving the highest level of performance from Tampa Electric's commercial and utility scale BESS facilities and provide maintenance support for the other Solar facilities. Responsible for supporting, tracking, leading effective inspection, monitoring, environmental compliance, and preventative maintenance (PM) programs for Tampa Electric's Battery & Energy Storage System (BESS) with support for the solar facilities.

Responsible for the maintenance of a reliability predictive modeling tool for these facilities.

Lead responsible for troubleshooting and making necessary repairs to commercial and utility scale BESS system equipment. Perform and document all PM strategies. Support all areas of commercial & utility scale BESS facilities, BESS fire detection and suppression systems, solar facilities, and collector station design/equipment specification review; health, criticality, and risk assessments; inspection, monitoring, and testing strategies; performance; safety; environmental and maintenance requirements.

Including contractor support and documentation as set forth in the Contractor Safety Management Program (CSMP) Participate in BESS system startup and commissioning planning (scoped single line diagrams, develop check-out database, conceptual system testing plans. Assist construction supervision with Quality control – ensure the construction is performed as per the design and if field changes are required, they meet or exceed TEC standards.

Ensure test procedures are followed and documented. Assist with the development, implementation, and maintenance of a comprehensive data collection and predictive modeling tool for commercial & utility scale BESS facilities to optimize performance, safety, protection of the equipment and optimize O&M costs. Assist with the tracking, analyzing, and reporting of reliability metrics for commercial & utility scale battery energy storage facilities.

Assist in the facilitation of system root cause analysis for commercial & utility scale BESS facilities, solar facilities. Assist in facilitation and tracking of resulting action plans to maintain appropriate system performance. Perform other duties as assigned by the BESS Engineer or performance coach.

Required:

High School Diploma or equivalent. Commercial &/Or Utility BESS training. Preferred:
Associate's degree in electrical engineering…