Senior Maintenance & Acceptance Engineer

The Senior maintenance & Acceptance Engineer’s job is mainly to plan, schedule, and ensure execution of daily, weekly and monthly activities to ensure smooth operations of a solar power plant. The O&M Engineer takes the responsibility of monitoring the performance of the solar power plants on a day-to-day basis and must be available for immediate field trips in case of any fault recovery.

Job Description 
The maintenance & Acceptance Engineer’s job will predominantly revolve around the following responsibilities:
 

• Making improvements to, and offering advice about, operational procedures
• Regular monitoring and inspection 
• Preventive and Corrective maintenance Co-ordinate with OEM vendors for equipment maintenance
• Plan, schedule and ensure execution of daily, weekly and monthly activities to ensure smooth operations of a solar power plant. 
• Takes the responsibility of monitoring the performance of solar power plants on a day-to-day basis and must be available for immediate field trips in case of any fault recovery
• Regular monitoring and inspection
• Preventive and Corrective maintenance
• Travel to project sites and vendor locations as assigned to perform all aspects of on-site installation, repair, maintenance, oversight, and modifications as required
• Provide timely written review reports from field operation, status, feedback as requested.
• Inspecting equipment and conducting routine maintenance.
• Servicing and replacing old or faulty equipment.
• Troubleshooting equipment malfunctions. Responding to customer call-outs.
• Adhering to all safety and performance regulations.
• ensuring that, systems, and equipment run optimally with minimal downtime
• Traveling to client locations for equipment inspection.
• conducting and overseeing maintenance process audits diagnosing faults
• put maintenance plans for the sites and follow up.
• undertaking planned maintenance
• establishing different maintenance procedures and protocols.
• training technicians on equipment operating and maintenance procedures
• responding to major equipment breakdowns
• forecasting and strategic planning for system overhauls and upgrades, while taking into account long-term maintenance costs.
• supervising other engineering and technical staff
• procuring, testing, and commissioning specialist components, fixtures, or fittings.
• working with the maintenance director and other executives to manage budgets.
• setting and tracking maintenance KPIs.
• playing an active role in helping the organization set up and execute preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, or any other preferred maintenance program.