PV TECH 3 – Senior
Role Summary
Attached to the head office, the PV technician works alone or in a team on our customers' solar installations. As part of a team experienced in photovoltaics, he participates in the operation and ensures preventive and corrective maintenance visits of all equipment and systems of the sites in a safe, reliable, efficient, environmentally friendly, and safety-compliant manner. The technician intervenes in accordance with the company's values: Responsibility, Discipline, Commitment, Responsiveness, Sobriety, Curiosity. Domiciled at one of our bases in France, he works on all types of photovoltaic installations (roof, carport, ground-mounted power plant – fixed and tracker or agricultural greenhouse). Attached to his area, he intervenes within a 2-hour radius daily but also occasionally in the rest of France.
Evolution compared to level 2:
The Senior PV Technician is an autonomous field expert, capable of managing complex interventions, including HVA. He regularly supervises work-study and junior students, supervises construction sites and acts as a technical interface with customers. He also intervenes independently on routine maintenance operations of storage systems (BESS) and participates in the diagnosis of simple to medium failures.
- Evolution from Level 2 (Advanced)
- Transition from limited autonomy to full autonomy on simple/medium LV and HVA interventions.
- Advanced LV fault diagnosis, HVA diagnostics.
- Site management (heavy maintenance, retrofit, module replacements).
- Simple to medium diagnostics on BESS (battery modules, DC wiring, PCS).
- Intermediate understanding of BMS/EMS operation and ability to analyze monitoring data.
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Skills required:
- Core curriculum
- Knowledge of energy systems: understand the architecture and main equipment of photovoltaic power plants (modules, inverters, boxes, SCADA, HVA) and, as required, BESS storage systems (batteries, BMS, PCS, EMS)
- Safety & prevention: compliance with instructions and risk analysis
- Rigour & method
- Improving mindset
- Clear communication (written/oral)
- Concise technical writing
- Teamwork & progressive autonomy
- Digital skills (CMMS, business applications)
- Technological openness
- Differentiating elements at level 2
- Mastery of complex LV interventions.
- Advanced BT diagnostic capability.
- Simple to medium diagnosis in hypertension.
- Knowledge of networks, SCADA and simple to medium level communication systems.
- Simple commissioning of BESS systems with support.
- Management of the specific BESS safety (HVDC lockout, thermal risks). More marked supervision (work-study students, juniors, temporary workers).
- Active role in technical communication with customers.
- Field supervision (work-study students, juniors, temporary workers).
- Ability to supervise interventions at height (organization, security, team management).
- Ability to prepare and manage maintenance sites (retrofit, module replacements).
- Reinforced writing and communication skills for technical exchanges with customers.
- Ability to prioritize and adapt to complex situations.
The Experience:
- 3 to 5 years' experience in PV maintenance on LV installations and HVA power plants.
- LV and HVA accreditation required
- Ideally work at height and CACES aerial work platform
- Additional training required: HVA, string/central inverters
Education:
- Holder of a Bac+2 in electrical or electrical engineering (BTS or DUT) or significant equivalent experience
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Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Preventive maintenance
- Carry out LV and HVA preventive maintenance independently (visual inspections, thermography, tests, manoeuvres, measurements).
- Carry out preventive maintenance on BESS independently (visual inspection, wiring control, simple tests, monitoring of the status of the modules).
- Corrective maintenance
- Perform complex corrective interventions in LV (measurements, IV curve, HT-instrument, etc.).
- Carry out simple to medium corrective interventions in HTA (DEIE, GTE, backup, centralized inverters).
- Commissioning of LV installations and monitoring systems independently.
- Carry out routine corrective maintenance on BESS (replacement of components, DC wiring check, PCS) independently.
- Analyze data from the BMS/EMS and identify operating anomalies.
- Carrying out electroluminescence inspections with analysis.
- Site management
- Prepare and manage maintenance sites (massive replacements, retrofits).
- Coordinate multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
- Supervision
- Supervise work-study students, juniors and temporary workers on site.
- Train experienced technicians on first-level BESS interventions
- Play the role of safety referent on site.
- Customer Support & Relationship
- Participation in operations, material ordering and planning operations
- Participate in the simple commissioning of BESS systems (basic tests, parameter validation).
- Write detailed technical reports.
- Communicate directly with customers on technical aspects.
- Compliance & Security
- Guarantee the safety of interventions within its perimeter, in line with internal rules and those of customers.
- Apply and enforce specific BESS procedures (HVDC, fire, thermal).
- Compliance with contractual commitments (deadlines, availability).
- Monitoring of interventions in the CMMS.
- Participation in weekend on-call duty
Reports to the O&M Manager or PV Tech 4 Expert/Referent
Location: France