Requisition ID: 98000
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Position Specific Description
We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to direct reliability and performance engineering for a large and growing portfolio of solar and battery energy storage assets. This leader will manage a multidisciplinary team responsible for fleet reliability analytics, performance engineering, condition-based maintenance, repeat-failure prevention, and long-term component lifecycle management. The team will translate operating data and engineering insight into scalable programs that improve safety, availability, energy performance, regulatory compliance, and total cost of ownership. The manager will work across engineering, operations, asset management, and business teams to advance solutions from risk identification and investment prioritization through deployment, operational adoption, and verification of sustained results.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
The manager will set fleet reliability and performance priorities, approve applicable engineering standards, recommend investments, and establish the governance needed to measure program effectiveness and sustain results.
- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary organization that may include engineering leaders, reliability and performance engineers, data and business intelligence professionals, and regional reliability engineers. Establish priorities, decision rights, accountability, succession plans, and career-development pathways aligned with fleet and business objectives. Foster a culture of safety, operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with senior leaders to prioritize fleet reliability and performance risks, translate those risks into investment decisions, and align the resulting portfolio of initiatives with enterprise objectives.
- Own the governance and executive communication of solar and storage reliability and performance. Establish KPI definitions, targets, data-quality rules, driver analyses, corrective-action tracking, and recurring operating reviews. Present fleet performance, material risks, investment needs, and initiative progress to executive leadership to support timely, evidence-based decisions.
- Develop, implement, and scale fleet reliability programs spanning predictive analytics, condition monitoring, upstream detection, event response, repeat-failure prevention, component forecasting, preventive-maintenance optimization, seasonal readiness, and risk-based countermeasures. Establish program objectives, adoption expectations, performance measures, and feedback mechanisms to ensure these programs produce sustained fleet results.
- Set the strategy for acquiring, governing, integrating, and analyzing operational, work-management, asset, and business data. Strengthen master data, site onboarding, sensor and calculation health, data pipelines, business intelligence products, and automated decision-support tools. Champion the practical adoption of predictive analytics, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities where they improve reliability, performance, productivity, or decision quality.
- Lead the cross-functional resolution of fleet reliability and performance issues and oversee multiple complex improvement initiatives. Establish accountable owners, decision points, scope, schedules, dependencies, and escalation paths. Advance solutions from analysis and pilot deployment through operational adoption, then verify that benefits are sustained.
- Review the effectiveness, adoption, and business impact of reliability engineering programs against established KPIs. Identify performance gaps, determine root causes, and redirect resources, priorities, or countermeasures based on measured results.
- Maintain a prioritized reliability risk portfolio that documents asset- and system-level exposure, operational and financial consequences, mitigation actions, accountable owners, required investment, target dates, and closure criteria. Use the portfolio to support resource allocation, investment decisions, and executive escalation.
- Maintain a reliability engineering knowledge base that captures lessons learned, repeat-failure analyses, proven practices, industry developments, and emerging technologies for reuse across the fleet.
- Establish, approve, and maintain technical standards and guidelines for reliability and performance engineering activities.
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
The Ideal Candidate Would Have The Following
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field and at least five years of progressively responsible experience in power generation, reliability or performance engineering, operations and maintenance, asset management, data analytics, or a related technical discipline.
- Demonstrated people-leadership experience, including setting organizational priorities, coaching employees, managing performance, developing technical talent and successors, and leading teams through change.
- Ability to communicate complex reliability and performance issues clearly to technical teams, business partners, and senior leaders and to align cross-functional teams on decisions and actions.
- Demonstrated ability to apply rigorous analytical and root-cause methods to complex equipment, process, and fleet-performance problems and translate findings into practical corrective actions.
- Experience applying reliability engineering methods and tools, including root-cause analysis, failure mode and effects analysis, fault tree analysis, and reliability-centered maintenance, to equipment and fleet-level problems.
- Experience applying statistical analysis, predictive analytics, condition-monitoring data, and data-driven decision-making to equipment reliability and fleet performance.
- Experience leading complex projects or programs, including scope, schedule, budget, risk, dependency, and stakeholder management.
- Experience with operational data platforms and pipelines, including data integration, ETL, data warehousing, database querying, data-quality management, and analytical methods.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple programs simultaneously.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 20%, including travel to field asset locations.
Additional Qualifications
- Two or more years of experience managing technical professionals or multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Master’s degree in engineering, reliability, data science, business administration, or a related field.
- Certified Professional Engineer (PE)
- Six Sigma certification – Green Belt or higher.
- Project Management Professional certification.
Job Overview
Employees in this role oversee a team of technical specialists. Individuals provide managerial and technical support to a services organization that is effective in supporting the plant/site organization.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Interacts with different levels both within the business unit and the company as well as other companies to determine feasibility, cost effectiveness, reliability and quality of products and services
- Builds a high performance organization that delivers total operational excellence
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
- High School Grad / GED
- Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
- Experience:5+ years
Preferred Qualifications
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