Solar Technician Iii

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Field Operations Mascoutah, IL, US

Salary Range: $38.00 To $45.00 Hourly

Position

Location

Bee Hollow Field Office (Mascoutah, IL)

About Us

Geronimo Power develops, owns, and operates large-scale power and affiliated digital infrastructure projects throughout America's Heartland, including solar, wind, energy storage, and powered data parks. As a farmer-founded and community-focused business, Geronimo Power equips landowners and rural communities with sustainable revenue to ignite local economic growth. To learn more about Geronimo Power, visit  or follow the company on Linked In.

About This Role

Geronimo Power is seeking a Solar Technician III to serve as an advanced field technician supporting safe, reliable, and efficient operations at the Bee Hollow solar facility. This role independently performs complex troubleshooting, corrective maintenance, equipment replacement, and technical work planning; provides day-to-day technical guidance to less-experienced technicians and contractors; and supports site reliability improvements. The Solar Technician III reports to the Area Manager, Field Operations.

Responsibilities

• Follow all company and project environmental, health, and safety programs and procedures, including lockout/tagout and electrical safe-work practices.
• Operate and maintain plant equipment, including combiner systems, inverters, pad-mounted transformers, control panels, meteorological stations, tracker systems, communications equipment, and other balance-of-plant equipment.
• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance in accordance with approved procedures, equipment manuals, and manufacturer requirements.
• Lead diagnosis and resolution of complex or recurring equipment failures; elevate engineering, OEM, or warranty support when appropriate.
• Read electrical schematics, one-line diagrams, and technical prints to troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, and control-system issues.
• Repair or replace PV modules, inverter and string-inverter components, tracker components, meteorological equipment, control panels, wiring, connectors, and related equipment.
• Document inspections, alarms, troubleshooting steps, test results, parts usage, and completed work accurately in the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Maintain site tools, test equipment, inventory, spare parts, and work areas needed for safe and efficient operations.
• Provide technical guidance, task coordination, and on-the-job coaching to Solar Technician I/II employees and contractor personnel; this role does not require formal people-management authority.
• Support work planning, outage coordination, root-cause reviews, procedure improvements, and reliability initiatives using operating and maintenance data.
• Support contractor work, quality assessments, warranty claims, capital improvements, equipment retrofits, and vegetation-management activities.
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule that may require short-notice work outside normal business hours, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Travel occasionally to other plants or locations for site coverage, maintenance campaigns, troubleshooting, training, or meetings.
• Complete required safety and technical training and perform other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Bring

• High school diploma or GED; technical school, electrical, instrumentation, industrial maintenance, or power-generation training is preferred.
• Typically four or more years of related power-generation, industrial electrical, renewable-energy, or utility-scale solar operations and maintenance experience, or an equivalent combination of…