Manager, Inverter Field Services

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $115k - $140k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👔 Manager

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Nextracker Inc.

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2013

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

Nextracker Inc. is a provider of solar energy solutions that designs, supplies, and supports utility-scale solar projects from design through operations. The company delivers specialized solar tracking hardware, installation logistics, training, and ongoing operations support, and pairs field-proven equipment with data-driven “solar intelligence” to improve yield, speed deployments, and ensure reliable performance in challenging environments worldwide.

📋 Description

• Lead the development and operation of Nextpower’s inverter field-services discipline within Engineering Field Services • Lead daily and long-range operating activities, including work planning, resource allocation, staffing, dispatch, site coverage, and escalation management • Provide technical direction for inverter inspections, electrical integrity, grounding and GFDI validation, transformer interface readiness, cable entry, and ventilation • Serve as the technical escalation point for high-priority customer issues involving inverter performance, unexpected trips, energy availability, and service recovery • Develop, approve, and maintain standard operating procedures, commissioning checklists, service runbooks, safety job plans, and field reporting standards • Partner with Product, Controls, Software, Hardware, Security & Communications, Commissioning, Project, Technical Services, and Field Services teams • Set and model safety standards for inverter work, including NFPA 70E, OSHA, NEC, site-specific requirements, arc-flash controls, stored-energy hazards, and medium-voltage interface work • Provide technical direction in the field while supervising field service professionals and technicians • Coordinate subcontractors and build repeatable operating processes • Manage workforce and operating priorities and remain accountable for safety, customer outcomes, schedule performance, service quality, and cost control • Travel approximately 80%+ to utility-scale solar sites across North America

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, or a related discipline; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience • Minimum eight (8) years of related experience in industrial electrical systems, power electronics, renewable energy, field service, or a related technical discipline • Minimum five (5) years of experience servicing, commissioning, or maintaining utility-scale solar PV systems • Experience working around medium-voltage distribution systems • Ability and willingness to travel approximately 80%+ to utility-scale solar sites across North America, including overnight travel and emergency service response as required • Required or maintainable: OSHA 10, current CPR/First Aid, NFPA 70E Electrical Safety, valid driver’s license with a clean driving record, and any site-required qualifications • Preferred: OSHA 30 • Knowledge of three-phase power systems, high-voltage DC up to 1500 Vdc, medium-voltage systems from 4.16 kV to 34.5 kV, transformer operation, harmonic mitigation, protection relays, and power-quality analysis • Knowledge of power electronics, including IGBT systems, SCR rectifiers, DC bus systems, capacitor banks, cooling systems, heat exchangers, fans, and blowers • Knowledge of grid synchronization, reactive-power control, power-factor correction, grid-forming and grid-following inverters, utility interconnection requirements, IEEE 1547, and UL 1741 • Knowledge of PLC troubleshooting, HMI operation, SCADA and plant-control systems, Ethernet/IP, Modbus TCP/RTU, CANbus, fiber optics, and vendor diagnostic software • Knowledge of root-cause failure analysis, predictive maintenance, CMMS platforms such as SAP or Maximo, Jira/Confluence or equivalent, and Microsoft Office • Ability to use or direct work involving digital multimeters, oscilloscopes, power-quality analyzers, megohmmeters, infrared cameras, clamp meters, phase-rotation testers, low-resistance ohmmeters, and relay-test equipment

🏖️ Benefits

• Health care coverage • Dental and vision coverage • 401(K) participation including company matching • Company paid holidays • Unlimited paid time off • Generous discretionary company bonuses • Life and disability protection • Stock compensation may be available for certain positions • Equity as part of the total compensation package