MILLER BROS SOLAR, LLC
JOB TITLE: DG Solar Portfolio Manager
About Miller Bros Solar -
Headquartered in Conshohocken PA, MBS operates 4.5GW + of both Distributed Generation (DG), Utility Scale PV plants and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) across 29 states in North America. Our dedicated team aims to exceed our client expectations, control costs, and enable power plants under our management to achieve expected ROIs. Through meticulous customer- focused operations, financial decision-making procedures, and 24/7/365 availability, MBS provides a full wrap of O&M services tailored to our partners' needs. MBS is an equal opportunity employer. We do not sponsor employment visas.
JOB PURPOSE AND SUMMARY- DG Solar Portfolio Manager
Implement project portfolio management processes. Manage activities in accordance with assigned customers’ contracts and appropriate customer requests, contributing to customer retention by maintaining excellent service and communication. The ideal candidate should possess a blend of technical, financial, and managerial competencies, along with relevant industry experience. We would also prefer this candidate to live within the California region and/or the West Coast.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Essential Functions of the Job
•Conduct bi-weekly meetings to review portfolio status, including each portfolio’s KPI (Key Performance Indicators) as agreed upon with internal management.
•Support client requests as received and escalate to senior management as appropriate.
•Support portfolio event(s) and escalate, when appropriate, to senior management.
•Support technicians, responding to their performance needs/concerns, and alerting management, HR, Payroll, and/or other departments as appropriate, while maintaining confidentiality. Manage technicians, while supporting the company and encouraging their career development and learning.
•Perform technician evaluations and provide guidance and coaching to them, with the support of management.
•Review and approve daily and weekly timesheets for technicians assigned to work on assigned portfolio accounts. Manage overtime.
•Review and approve weekly technician expense reports.
•Request and submit purchase orders to obtain approval from the accounting department for charges above the specified amount.
•Review, approve, create and dispatch assigned technicians’ vehicle maintenance, any appropriate paid time or unpaid time off per company policy, and training work orders per operating procedures.
•Collaborate with scheduling team to provide the assigned technicians a two-week look-ahead.
•Maintain, establish, and submit new project preventative maintenance schedules. Collaborate with schedulers to maintain portfolio schedules on a periodic basis.
•Maintain existing and enter new project inventory within the company inventory system.
•Review daily/weekly all assigned employee work orders and follow work order operating procedures.
•Review and ensure accuracy of the Portfolio Monthly Report.
•Review and provide weekly updates to accounting team on the status of portfolio level proposals and work requests.
•Update the weekly operations report for assigned portfolios, including utilization of technicians.
•Collaborate and ensure that the technicians are capturing the relative details during their initial investigation to process warranty claims.
•Support new project onboarding.
•Schedule and perform (minimum 6 times per year) portfolio audits by conducting site and technician visits.
•Submit annual preventive maintenance reports.
•Other tasks and responsibilities as assigned.
•Travel to sites would be required for audits.
QUALIFICATIONS
Educational Requirements
High School diploma or GED
Associate or Bachelor’s Degree preferred
Competencies Needed
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
•Ability to provide information effectively.
•Good written and verbal skills.
•Ability to communicate effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
•Ability to be productive working remotely and independently.
•Ability to work in a team and participate productively, both in person and through technology.
•Ability to build relationships, listen and utilize good interpersonal skills.
•Ability to take responsibility and accountability.
•Emotional intelligence. The capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions appropriately and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.
•Patience and the ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
•Ability to understand your role within the business.
•Ability to coordinate multiple activities while ensuring safety, quality, and schedule adherence.
•Planning and organizing skills.
•Ability to manage change and deal with situations as they arise.
•Ability to accurately prepare documents, reports, and correspondence.
•Skill in managing one’s own time and the time of others.
•Skill in monitoring/assessing the performance of self and others to make improvements and take corrective action.
•Ability to plan and delegate the work of others.
•Ability to take direction.
•Professionalism – a high level of professional skills, ethics, and behavior.
•Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
•Ability to learn new software for data collection and sharing.
Minimum Experience and Special Requirements
•4+ years of experience with PV Solar O&M
•Ability to demonstrate working knowledge of electrical theory and PV power generating system fundamentals.
•Aptitude for learning and understanding operation of various testing equipment, tools and procedures utilized in the maintenance of PV power generation systems.
•Ability to collaborate and coordinate well with peers and other personnel, vendors, and subcontractors.
•Proficiency with MS Office application to include, but not limit to, MS Word and Excel, as well as an ability to learn new computer programs without difficulty.
_ Work Environment_
Office and occasional outdoor conditions.
Disclaimer
The Employee is an “at-will” Employee subject to termination (with or without cause) or resignation at any time.
The information provided in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by incumbents within this job. It is not designed to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications and working conditions required of employees, assigned to this job. Management has sole discretion to add or modify duties of the job and to designate other functions as essential at any time. This job description is not an employment agreement or contract.
Applicable state laws will apply. Please contact mbsrecruiting@millerbros.us for more information.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $95,000.00 - $125,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Schedule:
Work Location: Remote
California, CA
Full-time
$95,000-$125,000
