AES's mission is to improve lives by accelerating a safer and greener energy future. We are a global, agile, cohesive organization with an employee engagement level akin to a startup company. AES businesses throughout the world are often recognized as great places to work. Our people share a passion to help meet the world's current and increasing energy needs, while providing communities and countries the opportunity for economic growth due to the availability of reliable, affordable electric power.
A day in the life of an AES Clean Energy Reliability Engineer will include, but is not limited to:
- Analyzing reliability and availability of solar plus storage hardware and components
- Performing root cause analysis for equipment failures and remediate with external parties as needed
- Leading and facilitating major repairs to operational sites
- Evaluating operational sites for repowering and retrofit opportunities including cost benefit analysis
- Implementing new practices to improve uptime and efficiency
The Reliability Engineer supports a larger operations team and serves as the domain expert for technical and engineering matters related to the reliable and available operation of photovoltaic plants and grid-scale battery storage systems. Excellent communication, task management and planning skills needed, in addition to technical breadth.
The role will focus on the mechanical and electrical operation of photovoltaics, batteries, and related equipment/components. The role will require the review of information related to all practical elements of photovoltaic and battery system design. The successful applicant, while not an expert, will be comfortable with high-level review of all elements of practical system design.
The position can be remote or located in Louisville, CO / Salt Lake City, UT and may include up to 10-15% travel to project locations and partner offices. The candidate must be located within the US territory.
Key ResponsibilitiesOperations
- Establish standard processes for hardware configuration and maintenance activities to increase reliability and availability
- Fix systems in operation to identify root cause of performance problems
- Perform life cycle cost modeling of project design to inform equipment and component selection
- Facilitate continuous improvement to maintenance practices with internal operations personnel and 3rd Party vendors
- Perform Job Safety Assessments and Safety Walks to identify job-site hazards
Collaboration
- Collaborate with Operations and Engineering teams to solve existing projects and develop repair and remediation plans
- "Close the loop" between Operations and new project development by recording and communicating issues that can be mitigated through better design and equipment selection
- Design solutions for modifications to systems, and coordinate between various AES subcontractors and vendors where needed
- Use technology such as drones, LiDAR, thermal imaging and 3D modeling to improve reliability
Growth and Leadership
Participate in AES DE's growth planning process by contributing to process improvement task forces and other strategic planning activities
Improve and develop processes for the execution of safe, quality and high-reliability projects
Educate team on changing trends in technology, standard methodologies and safety
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