Commissioning Manager

🕒 May 23

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Signal Energy

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2005

⚡ Energy

🤝 B2B

Energy • B2B

Signal Energy is a leading design/build engineering and construction contractor specializing in renewable energy and infrastructure projects. The company provides full EPC and Balance-of-Plant (BOP) services for wind, solar, energy storage, and high-voltage infrastructure, handling planning, pre-construction, design and execution globally. Signal Energy emphasizes safety, creative problem-solving, and long-term stewardship, and operates offices in Houston, TX and Chattanooga, TN.

📋 Description

• Live Signal Energy’s core principles to achieve preferred selection by our customers by continually improving processes, products and services to ensure Signal Energy consistently meets or exceeds customer requirements. • Communicate effectively with a wide range of people including Signal colleagues from all departments, clients, sub-contractors, and other stakeholders. • Review commissioning requirements in upstream contract language from Signal’s clients for problematic requirements and consistency with Signal‘s internal commissioning standards. • Work with estimating and project management groups to ensure commissioning requirements are adequately planned (schedule) and budgeted for at the proposal stage. • Serve as the commissioning subject matter expert for Signal supporting Project Engineers, Project Managers, and other team members. • Communicate Signal commissioning practices clearly and effectively to outside parties including clients, AHJs, and sub-contractors. • Continue to develop and maintain commissioning documentation including a commissioning plan template and commissioning forms. • Integrate Cx procedures and documentation with Procore to improve efficiency of processes and ensure proper archival of Cx documentation. • Review, correct and answer Owner’s comments related to commissioning. • Manage daily Cx meetings with owners, vendors, sub-contractors, etc. • Prepare and approve checklists for commissioning tests. • Coordinate with Safety in preparation of SOPs for energized tasks. • Review forecasted Commissioning schedules in coordination with PMs. • Assist developing project specific Cx plans. • Assist project teams with scoping of Cx activities to appropriate sub-contractors. • Interface and coordinate with suppliers, including review of test plans, bill of material, factory testing, and schedule collaboration during commissioning. • Work with Project Engineers and Cx Superintendents to review all Cx documentation submitted by sub-contractors and resolve any issues. • Work with project engineers and Cx Superintendents to ensure each projects Cx requirements are met and all Cx activities and test results are properly documented. • Work with quality control to ensure smooth transition from quality to Cx. • Manage field Cx Superintendents. • Assist CMs and PMs in managing subs with Cx scope to ensure Cx is completed on schedule. • Work with Performance engineering to transition project from Cx to performance testing. • Travel to sites as necessary to personally manage Cx when necessary. • Provide guidance to CMs, field Cx staff, or subs in troubleshoot inverters, trackers, SCADA, combiner boxes, transformers, communications, POA, Met stations, soiling stations, control building alarms, substation, and ground faults. • Become Subject Matter Expert on the interconnection process for different Utilities and ISOs. • Support project teams in achieving ISO and Utility milestones where required (CAISO buckets, ERCOT interconnection, etc.) • Support and coordinate utility and ISO tests (Power Factor, Relay Testing, Telemetry) and PPC tests (AVR, PFR, Curtailment, etc) • Monitor progress of construction as it relates to the critical path for Commissioning.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in technical field (engineering, physics, math, statistics, renewables or similar) preferred, but not required • Minimum of 7+ years of professional experience • Minimum 3+ years of experience in solar commissioning • Experience in operations and construction within the solar industry strongly preferred • Familiarity with and understanding of NETA ATS • Knowledge and expertise about PV solar equipment including PV modules, combiner boxes, solar trackers, inverters, DAS/SCADA equipment, communications hardware, meteorological sensors, etc. • Knowledge of ISO and Utility interconnection process is a plus • Knowledge and expertise of PV specific testing and equipment IV curve tracing VOC testing DC operating current checks • Familiarity with handheld and drone thermal imaging • Knowledge of NFPA 70E and safe electrical work practices • Required software: Microsoft Office, Cloud storage (Box, Dropbox, OneDrive), Bluebeam Revu, Excel, Testing tools software

🏖️ Benefits

• Signal Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer • E-Verify employment eligibility verification