- Spain is a priority country for TotalEnergies in Europe. Its portfolio of solar projects under development in Spain amounts at more than 5 GWp, which positions the Group as a major player in the country's energy transition.
- The construction of a 50+ MWp project in the regional cluster to be assigned started in May 2024 and commercial operation is expected to begin in May 2025. More than 200 MWp of other TERIb’s projects are expected to get online in the same region within 2027.
- This position is located in Madrid office (Spain), with periodic site visits. Occasional travels to other project sites as well as to other locations of TotalEnergies branches are expected.
- Very highly competitive environment.
Reporting to the PV Operation and Maintenance manager of TotalEnergies Renewables Ibérica (“TERIb”), the O&M project manager is a member of the PV Technical Asset Management (“TAM”) team which, upon hand-over by the Engineering Procurement and Construction team (if projects built by TERIb) or by the project acquisition team (if projects acquired operational), is in charge of all technical aspects of the exploitation of the photovoltaic plants (and related infrastructures) that are in TERIb scope. The PV O&M Project Manager is in charge of coordinating and controlling the operations on the assigned portfolio of assets. He/she takes responsibility to plan, organize, evaluate, and monitor TAM and O&M activities, regardless of whether carried out directly (by TERIb TAM own resources) or through outsourcing (by external contractors and providers). Being incorporated in the TAM team a few months before expected start of commercial operation of the assigned projects, the O&M project manager will be responsible of the following activities, in coordination with other TAM team members and with the relevant Asset Manager:
- Support EPC Provisional Acceptance and punch-list closure processes, together with TERIb EPC department
- Define technical plans and economic budgets for site operation and maintenance activities at the assigned assets
- Organize, supervise execution, and monitor all O&M tasks at the assigned cluster, being responsible of compliance of technical KPIs and OPEX of the assets against the applicable plans and budgets, and of their optimization
- Contribute to the definition, and lead the implementation, of the procurement and outsourcing strategy for O&M services and materials for the assigned assets
- Control and monitor the status of the assigned operational assets. Detect technical issues, take initiative to resolve, monitor the resolution
- Manage technical warranties
- Evaluate, define, implement the O&M procurement and outsourcing strategy for services and materials
- Coordinate, monitor, supervise the main contracts for technical supplies at the assigned assets (services, materials, utilities) entered by the project SPVs or by TERIb as applicable
- Establish, develop and maintain relationships with the contractors, the suppliers and the partners involved in TAM and O&M activities
- Support other TERIb departments about the technical and economical aspects related with O&M, during modelling / estimations / contract negotiations / internal decisions, for projects in screening, development, acquisition, or construction phases - Collect and prepare technical documentation or information about operational aspects of the assigned projects to other departments or third parties
- Supervise the compliance of the assets with current and new technical regulatory requirements
- Coordinate and conduct Intermediate Acceptance / Final Acceptance (or similar) processes/negotiations related to projects’ operational phase with any contractors
- Communicate and coordinate with the Asset Manager, providing necessary support for budgeting, reporting etc. on all aspects related to technical operations and performances of the assigned projects
- Facilitate and ensure the application of group’s Health, Safety, Security, Social responsibility policies during the O&M activities
- Participate in regular meetings and ensure return of experience within TotalEnergies
- Engineering degree with 3-5 years of work experience
- Technical skills (solar PV), purchasing and negotiation appreciated
- Autonomy, efficiency, sense of priorities and entrepreneurial firm performance culture
- Capacity for analysis and synthesis, to open up new topics and be creative
- Ability to listen and leadership of multidisciplinary teams
- Fluent in English (min B2) and Spanish
