Asset Intelligence - AM

Candi Solar; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Candi Solar in Pune, India, is seeking an Asset Intelligence Engineer to join the Asset Management team. The role focuses on real-time monitoring, diagnostics, and performance analysis for a growing solar portfolio.

You will help onboard new assets, validate data, and support cross-border collaboration in a dynamic, international environment. Experience in PV data systems and a proactive, analytical mindset are essential.

Qualifications

• University graduate in a technical field.
• 4+ years PV industry or related daily control room monitoring experience.
• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot data systems and hardware.

Responsibilities

• Daily real-time monitoring of solar portfolio performance.
• Diagnostics and troubleshooting of identified issues.
• Support asset management in tracking and solving plant issues.
• Maintain monthly performance data and dashboards.
• Onboard new assets to Asset Intelligence and validate data.

Skills

PV monitoring

Data analytics

Python

Data visualization

Education

BTech / BEng / Electrical Engineering / Energy Systems

Job description

Company Profile:

Candi is a dedicated solar partner for businesses across Asia and Africa. Combining the international capital of our Swiss-based platform with local expertise in these regions, we're able to provide a unique offering to this underserved sector. In doing so, we aim to have a big social impact, reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, increase energy access, and save money for businesses of all sizes in emerging markets.

Our approach is to take the risk so our partners don't have to, providing businesses with flexible, end-to-end solar and battery solutions that are built to last. Our shared value model leverages our experience in customisable finance and performance offerings, quality engineering, and data-enabled asset management to help guarantee optimised systems, lowering the barrier to entry and maximising returns. www.candi.solar

Job Summary:

The company is looking to recruit an ambitious and energetic Asset Intelligence Engineer , who will help the Candi Asset Management team to further deliver high performance on their solar portfolio. Given that Candi is taking solar into a new realm with a new set of tools, the role will require creativity, innovation and proactive involvement.

Specifically, the job requires taking ownership of the following for the South African team:

• Daily real-time monitoring of portfolio of solar power plants and detection of issues and anomalies for the Technical Asset Management to solve


• (Pre-)diagnostics on issues found in the monitoring activity


• Support Technical Asset Management in tracking and solving of plant issues


• Maintaining database for monthly performance monitoring


• Validate and contextualize monthly performance indicators


• Performance improvement analytics


• Onboarding of new assets onto Asset Intelligence setup including data validation and monitoring portal integration


• Support Asset Data Acquisition with data logger troubleshooting and data validation


• Develop, test and implement improvement ideas for monitoring and performance management setup

Location:

Pune, combined with working from home. Gurgaon can be an option based on suitability.

Hours:

Full-time

Job Experience & Requirements:

• University graduate (BTech / BEng / Electrical Engineering / Energy Systems / or comparable)


• 4+ years PV industry or related industry work experience in daily control room monitoring of technical performance data


• Willingness to work on weekends (against compensatory off)


• Commissioning, diagnosing & troubleshooting of data systems & related hardware


• Highly analytical in data processing and evaluation


• Critical thinking and data validation skills


• Data dashboarding/visualization knowledge


• Programming skills and experience in Python are a plus


• Fundamental Machine Learning knowledge is a plus


• Desire to work in an international environment, sharing ideas and learnings across borders and cultures

Working Culture:

• You agree to live out the Candi values every day of your employment: this includes to put empathy before ego, being authentic no matter what, that we get it done as one and follow the Candi principle that less is more.


• A dynamic, cross-functional team player, willing to take initiative on projects in the context of a multicultural scale-up trying to execute big, bold ideas.


• Having experience working for an international company, or having studied or worked abroad, is considered a plus.


• You must be open, honest, trustworthy, a strong communicator, and understand that what we get done as a team surpasses what we get done individually.


• Candi is an equal opportunities employer.

Candi is unique because...

• We focus on helping businesses of all sizes in emerging markets get access to cheap, clean, solar energy.


• We have a strong emphasis on a client-centric & innovation-driven working culture.


• We are an international team where hybrid working is commonplace, where we trust our team members to actively carve out a role for themselves according to their skillset.