Digital Operations Engineering Director

EMPLOYER: Opterra Energy Services, LLC

POSITION: Digital Operations Engineering Director

WORKSITE: 500 12th Street, Ste. 300, Oakland, CA 94607

OFFERED SALARY: $215,966.00 - $230,920.00 per year

JOB DUTIES: 

Responsible for the operation of metering, data acquisition, and telemetry systems that collect critical performance and health data from distributed renewable energy and energy efficiency project sites nationwide.

Resource and lead the Digital Operations team to maintain high availability and quality of site telemetry data in all operational databases, reporting tools, and analysis tools used by the Customer Care Team. Mentor

team members who are knowledgeable of data networks, cellular data communication, serial communications, data acquisition systems, and the capabilities of meters and other monitored devices to support field service

personnel travel to distributed sites. Establish standard operating procedures for interacting with field personnel using procurement, delivery, and commissioning of all instrumentation and telemetry components used

for the installation and repair of company projects. Work with the Customer Care Leadership Team and budget for and select software tools that support the business. Integrate various tools to create an ecosystem of

software that brings knowledge workers together and enables the maintaining the instrumentation and telemetry network and for the delivery of valuable services to customers. Understand customer needs and how

improvements to our tools can help our team meet those needs. Keeps abreast of emerging technologies and evaluate for commercial viability. Resources and leads the software development team and manage the

software development lifecycle. Develops standard operation procedures for the on-going operation of instrumentation and telemetry systems by the Digital Operations team. Work with the Digital Engineering Director,

select and standardize hardware for data collection and technology for backhaul. Work closely with networking and Cybersecurity teams to ensure the operating network is compliant with company policies and rules as

they evolve over time. Position based out of and reports to Oakland, CA office. May work 100% remotely & telecommute from anywhere in U.S. 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:  

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Energy Technology, or a closely related field plus five (5) years of experience in a related engineering role performing each of

the following: designing dataloggers, power plant controllers and programming Allen Bradley or Schneider Electric RTACs, Feeder protection Relays, Advanced Recloser Controllers, Grid protection systems, Radios,

Dataloggers, Power plant controllers (PPC) using JavaScript, Continuous function chart(CFC), Structured text (ST), Grafana under Linux/Debian OS.; diagnosing and troubleshooting solar inverters, PV trackers, Solar

panels, operation and maintenance of solar power plants; Designing SCADA and HMI systems.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: 

Up to 30% domestic travel to various unanticipated client sites is required.

CONTACT: 

Vicki Rawlston

Director, Human Resources 

500 12th Street, Suite 300

Oakland, CA 94607