Solar PV Maintenance Electrician

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Your new company
You will be working for renewable energy developer who manages and maintains over 300MW of Solar farms across the UK.

Your new role
The role is to primarily maintain a large 15MW Solar PV farm located 10 miles west of Winchester where you will be performing Planned Preventative Maintenance as per the scheduled PPM Annual maintenance plan as well as unscheduled reactive maintenance. You may also need to support other smaller sites and other maintenance electricians.
Duties include:

• AP Duties including Switching, Isolations and Permits
• Diagnosing, fault finding and carrying out corrective maintenance of faults.
• Daily completion of PPM / corrective maintenance
  reports: detailing all measures taken, materials used, timescales of tasks and report any remedial works required to be planned in by the admin O&M team
• Conduct site inductions for visitors and third-party contractors to sites complying with Health and safety regulations.
• Alert line manager and supervising engineers of any issues identified.

What you'll need to succeed
You will be an experienced electrician who has ideally had some previous Solar PV experience
The role is based 10 miles west of Winchester but you will need to be flexible to cover other sites within the county area if required.
Key Qualifications and experience:-

• Level 2/3 City & Guilds electrical installation or electrical engineering
• City & Guilds 17/18th BS7671 Wiring Regs.
• Ideally, have an understanding of Central/String Inverters
• Ideally, have some knowledge of power electronics and circuitry, power generation technologies and equipment
• Familiarity with Earthing Systems - including measuring and monitoring Relays would be desirable
• HV experience is advantageous, training will be provided to the right candidate.
• Full clean UK driving licence.

What you'll get in return
38-40k plus Van and Benefits

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