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Lydian Energy
Lydian Energy
11 – 50 Employees
ConstructionEnergyManufacturing
Lydian Energy develops, builds, and operates utility-scale solar and battery energy storage projects across North America. Working across energy, construction, and manufacturing, the company brings together a team of 11–50 professionals focused on expanding resilient, interconnected energy infrastructure through practical renewable power solutions.
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Director of Asset Management, Solar and Battery Storage

Lead asset management for Lydian Energy’s utility-scale solar and battery storage portfolio. Oversee operations, performance, compliance, budgets, lifecycle planning, and stakeholder reporting.

USUnited StatesRemoteFull-timeLeadEnglish RequiredDirector
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Description

  • Protect the long-term safety, reliability, performance, compliance, and financial returns of Lydian’s operating renewable energy portfolio.
  • Direct third-party O&M, operational performance, revenue and cost management, NERC/FERC compliance, construction handovers, warranty and insurance claims, lifecycle planning, and stakeholder reporting.
  • Act as the owner’s operating authority, accountable for contractor results, safe and reliable operations, 98% portfolio availability, budgets, regulatory and contract compliance, and asset value.
  • Track energy production, availability, performance ratio, capacity, battery round-trip efficiency, degradation, state of health, throughput, and related portfolio measures.
  • Manage O&M provider relationships, service-level enforcement, contract compliance, staffing, response times, reporting, and contractor scorecards.
  • Lead preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance, outage coordination, root-cause investigations, reliability programs, and corrective-action follow-through.
  • Use remote monitoring and SCADA analytics to identify and address underperformance.
  • Oversee spare-parts strategies, critical inventories, work-order results, and long-term reliability planning.
  • Develop the annual O&M budget and lead cost-control efforts.
  • Oversee compliance with PPA, tolling, interconnection, utility, and other operating agreements, including metering, billing, and settlement.
  • Manage operating budgets, forecasts, major-maintenance plans, spending oversight, variance analysis, and corrective actions.
  • Prepare reports for lenders, tax equity partners, investors, and offtakers.
  • Maintain compliance with lender covenants, insurance requirements, reserve accounts, operating budgets, and certifications.
  • Oversee warranties, insurance claims, reserve planning, diligence requests, lender reviews, inspections, and audits.
  • Manage construction-to-operations handovers, O&M mobilization, transition issue logs, and post-COD stabilization reviews at 30, 60, and 90 days.
  • Plan asset lifecycles, including battery augmentation, repowering, equipment upgrades, controls modernization, and life-extension projects.
  • Manage landowner relationships, land payments, decommissioning plans, and security obligations.
  • Support M&A diligence for potential acquisitions and divestitures.
  • Ensure compliance with NERC standards, FERC reporting, utility tariffs, ISO/RTO rules, interconnection agreements, permits, and contracts.
  • Set compliance calendars, evidence standards, internal controls, audit preparation, and escalation procedures.
  • Manage compliance consultants and coordinate with Legal, Engineering, IT/OT, O&M providers, utilities, balancing authorities, and market participants.
  • Manage property tax assessment appeals and compliance with real estate obligations.
  • Oversee environmental compliance covering SPCC, stormwater, wildlife commitments, waste, inspections, reporting, and corrective actions.
  • Direct asset management systems, CMMS, performance databases, operating dashboards, and reporting platforms.
  • Maintain data integrity across metering, SCADA, EMS, PPC, historians, maintenance, settlement, and financial reporting systems.
  • Set standards for asset hierarchies, outage codes, equipment records, performance calculations, warranty data, and document retention.
  • Advance predictive analytics and machine learning for forecasting, anomaly detection, degradation analysis, and maintenance optimization.
  • Coordinate with IT/OT and cybersecurity teams on remote access, communications, software changes, data retention, and incident response.
  • Report to the Vice President of Asset Management.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience in renewable energy operations, asset management, utility operations, power generation, or power project management.
  • At least 3 years in senior asset management or operations leadership, with direct responsibility for operating portfolios above 500 MW.
  • Proven experience overseeing third-party O&M providers, service-level obligations, operating budgets, and project financial reporting.
  • Direct experience with project finance, lender reporting and covenants, reserve accounts, and tax equity partnership requirements.
  • Experience managing utility-scale solar PV and battery energy storage (BESS) assets, warranties, insurance claims, major maintenance, and construction-to-operations transitions.
  • Background in NERC compliance and utility-scale generation operations.
  • Experience managing portfolios in multiple ISO/RTO or utility markets, including ERCOT and at least one of SPP, CAISO, PJM, MISO, NYISO, ISO-New England, PacifiCorp, or WECC.
  • Strong knowledge of solar PV and BESS performance measures, degradation modeling, operational benchmarking, battery cycling, state of health, throughput, efficiency, and augmentation planning.
  • Expertise in power-market operations, ISO settlement, ancillary-service markets, merchant BESS operations, and contractual performance requirements.
  • Working knowledge of SCADA, EMS, PPC, computerized maintenance management systems, asset platforms such as PowerFactors, Greenbyte, or Locus Energy, and PI historians.
  • Proficiency in financial modeling, budget development, cost forecasting, reserve planning, variance analysis, and operating performance reporting.
  • Ability to interpret O&M agreements, warranties, financing documents, PPAs, tolling and interconnection agreements, and regulatory requirements.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Business, or a related field.
  • Strong safety leadership and owner-level accountability for reliable operations.
  • Commercial judgment and understanding of how technical performance affects financial returns.
  • Strong stakeholder-management skills with lenders, investors, offtakers, utilities, O&M providers, OEMs, regulators, landowners, and project partners.
  • Analytical, data-led approach to portfolio performance, risk management, and decision-making.
  • Ability to collaborate with Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Finance, Commercial, Legal, IT/OT, and Safety teams.
  • Ability to build scalable processes and systems for a rapidly growing national portfolio.

Benefits

  • Commitment to equal employment, diversity, and a strong workplace.
  • Domestic travel of 25% to 40%.

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