Project Engineer - Solar PV

Project Engineer - Solar PV

Salary / Package - £35k-£40k Base Salary (Employed) + Company Vehicle, Phone, Laptop, Pension, Holiday, Training & Benefits.

Location - Leicestershire / Northamptonshire

Company Background:

Superb opportunity to join a reputable and growing Solar PV and Renewable Energy specialist based in the Leicestershire region. Joining as a Project Coordinator, you'll be responsible for coordinating / project management of multiple residential and commercial Solar PV and Renewable installations.

Job Role:

• Coordinating and managing all aspects of installations / projects, from initial enquiry and through to project completion.
• Liaising with customers, suppliers, your own team, and subcontractors.
• Conduct site specific Design confirmations, risk assessment and method statements.
• Read electrical drawings and equipment layouts, ensuring suitability for Install.
• Diary Management, confirming dates for site visits, install and commissioning.
• Managing costings on site, monitoring equipment prices and negotiating where possible to save on initial costings.
• Arrange deliveries to site.
• Liaise with the site team to ensure they are aware of any special requirements.
• Meet team on site, ensuring awareness of roles and to resolve any unforeseen issues.
• Deal with ongoing site issues during and after installations.
• Ensure contracts are completed on time and to budget.
• Develop O&M business by initialising contracts with current and previous customers.
• Run O&Ms and ensure maintenance contracts are fulfilled for the customers.
• Ensuring the company has an up to date presence on Social media (LinkedIn and Facebook), posting about completed projects.

Key Skills / Experience Required:

• You'll need to have relevant experience within a similar field, electrical engineering or ideally relevant Solar PV experience.
• Ideally 18th Edition Electrically qualified or equivalent.
• Previous experience project coordinating or project managing.
• Construction site Knowledge and ideally CSCS card.
• SSSTS or SMSTS desirable.
• Software skills: PVSol, Google Sketchup, Autodesk Revit/CAD skills also desirable.

Alecto Recruitment Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. If your experience matches please forward your CV asap and to Mike Prew, Alecto Recruitment.

We thank all applicants who respond, but only those shortlisted will be contacted.