„Lydian Energy“ plėtoja, stato ir eksploatuoja didelio masto saulės energijos bei baterijų energijos kaupimo projektus visoje Šiaurės Amerikoje. Energetikos, statybos ir gamybos srityse veikianti įmonė suburia 11–50 specialistų komandą, orientuotą į atsparios ir tarpusavyje sujungtos energetikos infrastruktūros plėtrą pasitelkiant praktiškus atsinaujinančiosios energijos sprendimus.
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.
Aprašymas
- 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.
Reikalavimai
- 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.
Privalumai
- Commitment to equal employment, diversity, and a strong workplace.
- Domestic travel of 25% to 40%.