Portfolio Manager – Utility-Scale Solar - #2196524
MDE UK
Role: Portfolio Manager - Utility-Scale Solar
Salary: Up to £40,000 + bonus
Location: Hybrid, Midlands office
Type: Full-time, permanent
About the role
We’re recruiting for a Portfolio Manager to join a specialist solar operations and maintenance provider. You’ll manage the day-to-day delivery of O&M services across a portfolio of ground-mounted solar farms in the UK.
You’ll work with clients, monitoring specialists, field engineers and contractors to keep maintenance on schedule, respond to faults within agreed timescales and make sure each site receives the services covered by its O&M agreement. You’ll also lead client meetings, report on asset performance and coordinate additional works.
Key responsibilities
- Plan and schedule preventive and corrective maintenance in line with contractual requirements.
- Review daily alerts from the monitoring team and coordinate engineer callouts with field team leads to investigate faults within agreed response times.
- Create and manage work orders, ensuring engineers have the information they need and that completed work and follow-up actions are recorded accurately.
- Manage the scope of O&M agreements and track delivery against contractual obligations.
- Lead client meetings and keep clients informed about site performance, maintenance activity and outstanding issues.
- Produce monthly technical performance reports and prepare supporting reports for warranty and insurance claims.
- Prepare quotations for complex or high-value additional works for senior management review.
- Coordinate internal teams and external contractors to deliver site activities, and prepare and manage budgets for minor corrective works.
- Promote safe working practices and ensure site activities follow company health and safety procedures.
What you’ll bring
- Experience in solar PV operations and maintenance, technical asset management or a similar role involving the operation and maintenance of technical assets.
- Experience coordinating maintenance activity, field engineers or contractors across multiple sites.
- Confidence managing client relationships, leading meetings and communicating technical issues clearly.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise planned maintenance alongside urgent faults and callouts.
- The ability to take ownership of issues, make decisions under pressure and follow actions through to completion.
- Familiarity with solar PV monitoring systems and good working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- An understanding of UK health and safety requirements, including the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations.
Benefits
- 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
- Flexible working policy and time off in lieu arrangements
- Learning and development programme
- Employee assistance programme and wellbeing support
- Company mobile phone
How to apply
Apply via LinkedIn with your CV, or message me directly for a confidential conversation about the role.
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