Job Description

Greenbacker is an investment management firm that focuses on renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure investing. Since its founding in 2011, Greenbacker has grown to almost 185 employees, located in four offices (New York, Maine, Vermont and Colorado), and a number of additional individual locations throughout the United States. With over 60 years of combined infrastructure investment experience and more than $20 billion in combined transactions across the investment team, we are positioned as a market leader in sustainable infrastructure investments. We invest in a diversified portfolio of income-producing renewable energy power facilities and energy efficiency projects that sell power under long-term contract to high credit worthy counterparties such as utilities, municipalities, and corporations.

Greenbacker strives to create a workforce that encourages a supportive and inclusive culture by promoting diversity and excluding all forms of discrimination. At Greenbacker we strongly value the unique talents of our employees and endeavor to foster an environment in which every employee is respected and valued regardless of age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability, marital status, and pregnancy or maternity. Greenbacker seeks candidates for employment, promotion, training, or any other benefit, based on their aptitude and ability, and aims to provide support and resources for all employees to reach their full potential.

Please visit our website at to further understand our company and team. Job Purpose/Background:

The Wind Monitoring Specialist (WMS) will report to the Vice President of Engineering \xe2\x80\x93 Operations and will work closely with the Engineering, Wind Operations, Construction, and our Operations & Maintenance (O&M) partners to ensure high availability and performance of our operating fleet and any new projects in the pipeline.

The Greenbacker Operations team is responsible for Asset Management, Field Operations, Technical Due Diligence, and Construction. As part of this larger team, the WMS will monitor our wind fleet in our primary (PF Drive) and secondary (e.g. local platforms) monitoring platforms to ensure that plants are available and operating at an optimal performance. The WMS will ensure that downtime and any other relevant event(s), such as curtailments and other alarms/statuses are properly recorded under our monitoring platforms for end of month reporting and overall trends analysis. The WMS shall communicate any wind farm-side deficiencies to our internal Wind team and our O&M partners and be in contact with our monitoring partners when data issues arise, creating tickets as needed. This role also has an opportunity to engage and build on our Condition Monitoring Systems (CMS) to bring in and understand system data and ultimately leverage that data to perform predictive maintenance.

As part of this larger team, the WMS will help troubleshoot and correct issues remotely with the assistance of our O&M partners and our technical support organization. They will have the opportunity to continue to expand our knowledge base in this field by creating guides and Standard Operating Procedures and providing input to our Design Guidelines. The WMS also assists our Performance Operations team in monitoring and finding faults/underperformance in our growing fleet of renewables assets and communicating those issues to our Wind Operations team for prompt resolution.

In this role, the WMS will have the opportunity to engage and monitor our Condition Monitoring Systems (CMS), and we expect that the larger team will work to ensure that we are gaining the most value from these systems. We envision a future where the CMS can help us go from a reactive maintenance to a predictive maintenance organization and the WMS will be instrumental in that journey. As we continue to grow, the opportunity to gain further knowledge into monitoring other renewable energy sources, such as storage, solar, and others will be available. We welcome curious mind and are willing to share knowledge across our organization so that our members can add more tools to their toolbox.

The role would ideally be place in our Vermont, Maine, or Denver offices but open to a fully remote placement for the right background and experience.

Type: Full Time

Location: Montpelier, VT \xe2\x80\x93 Portland, ME - New York, NY - Remote

Requirements

Site Monitoring

• Monitor sites across multiple DAS platforms, mainly PowerFactors Drive, and other local systems depending on SCADA/turbine manufacturer.
• Engage our monitoring provider, creating and tracking tickets as they arise and attend weekly meetings as necessary to ensure resolutions are prioritized and advancing accordingly.
• Monitor and communicate any issues in our CMS and assist in coordinating/developing CMS solutions as needed.
• Efficiently communicate issues to our Wind Operations and O&M partners. Troubleshoot communication issues as a first-line responder and communicate any potential gaps and inspection points to Field Operations and our O&M partners, where the goal is to minimize truck rolls whenever technically possible.
• Identify performance and outage issues across a multifaceted wind fleet, and if interested, across other renewable energy sources in our fleet.
• Classify individual turbine events to capture IEC and GADS level downtime distinctions.
• Create work orders in our maintenance system as required, recording issues and their resolutions for historical records and supporting performance reporting.

DAS/SCADA

• Demonstrated ability to access remote systems at our wind fleet for monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Ability to troubleshoot or guide others with with PowerFactors, OPC and other connections, the N3uron collector from PF, and methods of gathering data from wind farms.
• Build and/or review device configuration hierarchy across multiple DAS platforms
• Review DAS data for completeness & accuracy with the Technical Onboarding Manager

Technical

• Bachelor\'s degree in engineering or a related area, although strong experience in the field will be seriously considered for the role
• 2-5 years of wind monitoring experience in a utility-scale setting
• Knowledge of SCADA/EMS data collection platforms including N3uron or similar
• Knowledge of the following protocols: Modbus, DNP3, OPC, FTP and others
• Experience with/knowledge of electrical, civil and mechanical systems
• Ability to manage multiple activities at a time (e.g. multitasking)
• Intermediate to advanced skills in using Microsoft Word/Excel, Smartsheets, Salesforce and Sharepoint
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawing sets
• Demonstrated experience with PowerFactors, and other DAS vendor setups such as Greenbyte
• Knowledge of wind performance metrics, ie. Time-based vs Energy-based Availability.
• Programming experience with Python, R, or similar will be valued by the team, but not essential to the role

Soft Skills

• A strong focus on organization and timeliness with an ability to support other parties to help provide timely responses
• Detail oriented, striving for excellence in their work
• Passion for the deployment and continued success of renewable energy technologies.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to manage workload autonomously and effectively
• Excellent time management
• Willingness to work with a highly motivated, experienced group of professionals in an open office environment or have experience working well remotely
• A team player who enjoys a friendly but professional team dynamic

Development Value:

• Grow with a small and evolving team that has experience across the renewables industry and is on a journey to grow out of startup phase to a mature and structured enterprise.
• Exposure to a wide variety of technologies and the opportunity to be engaged and grow in fields such as energy storage, solar, and others.
• Have access to experienced senior team members in the renewables industry with strong values, providing excellent learning and developmental opportunities.
• Significant exposure to prestige projects in the fast-growing renewable energy sector.
• Broad and varied exposure to all aspects of the team\'s activities, such as performance monitoring, technical support, compliance delivery, process building, customer service, and performance reporting.
• Opportunity to affect future growth and increase the operating efficiency of Greenbacker.

Benefits

Medical: Insperity/ 5 United Health Care options (3 PPO\xe2\x80\x99s and 2 High Deductible Health Plans) / 100% employer paid for employee; 50% employer paid for spouse and children

Dental: Guardian \xe2\x80\x93 two options / 100% employer paid for employee; 50% employer paid for spouse and children

Vision: Guardian / VSP \xe2\x80\x93 two options / 100% employee paid

Life and AD&D: Unum / 100% employer paid / 2 times annual up to $700K

Short term disability: Unum / 100% employer paid / 60% base; $1,500 weekly max

Long term disability: Unum / 100% employer paid / 60% base; $15,000 monthly max

Retirement: Insperity ~ various stock, bond and lifestyle fund options / 50% match up to 6% of salary

Other: Medical and dependent care / Health Savings Accounts / Pre-tax commuter benefits / 20 days paid time off & 7 sick days, Modern Health: 24/7 access to Coaching and Therapy sessions for employees\' and dependents

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