Senior O&M Asset Manager - Europe

Greetings, fellow seeker of sustainable futures! We're thrilled to present a pivotal role that connects cutting-edge technology with the operational excellence of renewable energy assets across Europe, the Senior O&M Asset Manager. Curious what this quest entails? Let's dive right in:

• Hold senior accountability for the asset management of PV and ESS portfolios across Europe, ensuring compliance with LTSAs, SLAs, KPIs, budgets, and performance targets.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Asset Managers, setting objectives, reviewing performance, and building capability.
• Act as the senior escalation point and primary customer interface for complex technical, contractual, warranty, and corrective service issues.
• Perform and oversee advanced contract analysis, identifying risks, obligations, and value optimization opportunities, and actively support LTSA negotiations.
• Provide senior technical oversight by reviewing and validating Root Cause Analyses (RCAs), interpreting SCADA data, and assessing equipment logs.
• Lead service partner performance management in collaboration with procurement and O&M teams, focusing on cost control, service quality, and contractual compliance.
• Drive a data-driven asset management approach, including availability and performance analysis, spare parts strategy, and lifecycle cost optimization.
• Ensure strong cross-functional coordination with Projects, Sales, Engineering, and HQ to support asset handover and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contribute directly to the profitability and long-term value of the O&M business through cost optimization, risk management, and performance-driven decision-making.
• Champion continuous improvement in processes, reporting, asset performance, reliability, and team ways of working across the European asset management function.

All right, all right, that was intriguing, wasn't it? Now, in order to fit in this role and be happy for a long time, your ideal background should look a lot like this:

• A degree in engineering, business, contracting, or a related technical field is essential.
• You possess a strong technical background in PV and Energy Storage (BESS) technologies.
• Extensive experience in O&M asset management, handling complex asset portfolios and long-term service agreements is required.
• Advanced expertise in contract analysis, including warranties, SLAs, penalties, liabilities, and risk allocation, is crucial.
• You have a proven ability to review and validate RCAs, and to analyze SCADA data and equipment logs at a senior decision-making level.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams, with the ability to set priorities, coach performance, and drive accountability is expected.
• You exhibit strong stakeholder management, communication, and negotiation skills with customers, internal teams, and service partners.
• You are highly analytical, structured, and commercially minded, with a strong focus on profitability and value creation.
• Fluency in English is mandatory, and proficiency in other languages is a plus.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word) is necessary, with advanced data analysis skills being an advantage.
• You can operate effectively within a multicultural, matrix organization, with regular interaction with HQ and senior leadership.