Assistant Manager

Assistant Manager - Maintenance (Chattishgarh)

Company Profile:
Candi is a dedicated solar partner for businesses across Asia and Africa. Combining the international capital of our Swiss-based platform with local expertise in these regions, we're able to provide a unique offering to this underserved sector. In doing so, we aim to have a big social impact, reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, increase energy access, and save money for businesses of all sizes in emerging markets.

Our approach is to take the risk so our partners don't have to, providing businesses with flexible, end-to-end solar and battery solutions that are built to last. Our shared value model leverages our experience in customisable finance and performance offerings, quality engineering, and data-enabled asset management to help guarantee optimised systems, lowering the barrier to entry and maximising returns.

Job Summary: The company is looking to recruit an ambitious and energetic Senior Engineer / Assistant Manager- Asset Management, who will help candi to lead the revolution of solar. Given that candi is taking solar into a new realm with a new set of tools, the role will require creativity, innovation and a new way of thinking.

Specifically, the job requires taking ownership of the following for the India AM team:

• Human and equipment safety compliance
• Maintaining proper plant safety infrastructure
  
• Training of onsite person as per the Disaster management plan
  
• Preventive Maintenance Compliance
  
• Finalise plant wise preventive maintenance calendar and periodically update the same
  
• Expedite the PPM activity as per the schedule and maintain a tracker
  
• Maintaining a repository of all the plant wise maintenance reports
  
• Carry out timely hardware and firmware upgrades
  
• Module cleaning compliance
  
• Ensuring proper access arrangements and permissions to the cleaning team
  
• Ensuring proper availability of infrastructure and water for module cleaning
  
• Carrying out pilots and deployments of advance module cleaning techniques to meet generation requirements
  
• Breakdown maintenance and plant normalisation after faults
  
• Carrying out root cause analysis and maintaining a breakdown history reports
  
• Expedite the restorations at site level
  
• Periodic calibration of sensors / meters
  
• Arranging and installing backup sensors / meters at site if the original sensor/ meter is expected to be sent at the vendor's premises
  
• Manage transit of sensors and updating the asset register accordingly
  
• Provide remote access to the vendor if sensor / meter can be calibrated remotely
  
• Maintain efficient spares inventory
  
• Maintain the onsite spares and consumables as per the prescribed shelf-life guidelines
  
• Track the consumption of spares and consumables by maintaining repository using a suitable software tool
  
• Timely generating alerts related to exhaustion of minimum required quantity
  
• Reporting and documentation
  
• Regularly collect AM data for reporting
  
• Create and share generation reports to all the stakeholders (Including customers if required)
  
• Site Performance improvements
  
• Expedite implementations as per the finalisation of remedies
  
• Monitor the plant performance after the solution is deployed
  
• Billing and collections
  
• Carry out Joint meter readings for meter generation and get the certification from the customer plant representative
  
• Project coordination
  
• Carry out regular visits at the sites under construction for quality review and raising of snag lists
  
• Coordinate with respective project teams for efficient project handover as per the company process
  
• Coordinating with regulatory and substation authorities
  

Location: Chhattisgarh, combined with working from home

Hours: Full time.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of Experience in PV solar O&M / Asset Management
  
• Bachelor's Degree / Diploma in Electrical Engineering
  
• Basic computer understanding and reporting skills are a must
  
• Should be willing to travel at sites whenever required
  
• Having exposure to HT networks and transformer maintenance is a must
  

Working Culture:

• You agree to live out the candi values every day of your employment: this includes to put empathy before ego, being authentic no matter what, that we get it done as one and follow the candi principle that less is more
  
• A dynamic, cross-functional team player, willing to take initiative on projects in the context of a multicultural scale-up trying to execute big, bold ideas.
  
• Having experience working for an international company, or having studied or worked abroad, is considered a plus.
  
• You must be open, honest, trustworthy, a strong communicator, and understand that what we get done as a team surpasses what we get done individually.
  
• candi is an equal opportunities employer.
  

candi is unique because...

• We focus on helping businesses of all sizes in emerging markets get access to cheap, clean solar energy.
  
• We have a strong emphasis on a client-centric & innovation-driven working culture.
  
• We are an international team where hybrid working is commonplace, where we trust our team members to actively carve out a role for themselves according to their skillset.
  

Only qualified candidates will be contacted