MV Field Service Technician: Renewable Energy

Innovate; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full training provided

Job summary

Innovate is seeking motivated MV Technicians to troubleshoot, repair and commission medium voltage transformers and switchgear on solar, wind and storage sites across Texas. This field-based role requires travel to active project sites and strict safety protocols.

You will handle new project testing, in-service support, fault analysis, oil processing, protective relays, and returned-to-service documentation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on MV equipment experience (5 kV–38 kV).
• Experience troubleshooting and repairing liquid-filled transformers and MV switchgear.
• Journeyman Electrician license or equivalent MV testing background.
• Clean, accurate documentation practices.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot MV transformers when trips, gas or leaks and identify root causes.
• Carry out repairs: gaskets, bushings, surge arresters, oil processing.
• Pull oil samples, perform DGA, interpret results and recommend actions.
• Interrogate protective relays post-trip and analyze fault records.
• Test MV switchgear: insulation, dielectric, resistance, timing and interlocks.
• Support removal and re-commissioning of transformers on site.
• Create test reports and return-to-service records for owners/OEMs.

Skills

MV troubleshooting

Field service

Documentation

Safety compliance

Education

Journeyman Electrician license

Valid driver's license

Tools

Megger

TTR

Power factor

IR camera

Job description

Location: Texas | Type: Full-time, permanent | Travel: Yes, sites across Texas

About our client

We're recruiting on behalf of a founder-led, independent renewable energy field services company working on utility-scale battery storage (BESS), solar and wind projects. It isn't a large corporation or private equity-backed firm. The team is made up of former technicians who value a strong company culture. Employees are treated as people, not numbers, and profit is shared across the company every year.

The opportunity

Our client is seeking motivated, positive and experienced MV Technicians to troubleshoot, repair and commission medium voltage transformers and switchgear on solar, wind and battery storage sites.

There are two sides to the job:

• New projects: testing and commissioning equipment before it energizes.
• In-service support: the fastest-growing part of the business. You're the person who shows up when a transformer or breaker trips, gasses or leaks. You work out why, fix it, and put it back in service with documentation behind it.

What you'll do

• Troubleshoot MV transformers when they trip, gas or leak (sudden pressure and temperature trips, faulty gauges and indicators, leaks at gaskets, bushings and valves) and find the root cause
• Carry out repairs: gaskets, bushings, surge arresters, terminations, cooling and control accessories, oil processing and top-up
• Pull oil samples and DGA, interpret the results, and recommend action on gassing units
• Interrogate protective relays after a trip: retrieve fault records and event reports, read targets, and confirm what operated and why
• Test and service MV switchgear and breakers: insulation resistance and dielectric withstand, contact and pole resistance, vacuum bottle integrity, breaker timing, and mechanism and interlock checks
• Support removal, replacement and re-commissioning of padmount and skid-mounted transformers
• Perform acceptance and maintenance testing to ANSI/NETA ATS and MTS: insulation resistance, TTR, winding resistance, power factor, and VLF withstand on MV cable
• Write the test reports and return-to-service records that owners and OEMs rely on
• Work safely around energized MV equipment under NFPA 70E, LOTO and site switching procedures

What you'll need

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with MV equipment rated 5 kV–38 kV: transformers, switchgear and their controls
• Real experience troubleshooting and repairing liquid-filled transformers and MV switchgear, not just testing them
• Journeyman Electrician license, or an equivalent MV testing and service background
• Comfort with the usual test gear: megger, TTR, power factor and low-resistance sets, VLF, and an IR camera
• Good documentation habits. Clean reports matter as much as clean work
• Valid driver's license and willingness to travel to sites and respond to callouts

Nice to have

Some of these, not all of them. Full training is provided.

• NETA or NICET certification, or working toward one
• Familiarity with protective relay software and pulling event records (SEL, ABB, GE, Beckwith or similar)
• Solar, wind, BESS or substation experience
• Rigging and crane coordination for transformer set and removal
• OSHA 10 or 30

The work itself

This is field work. You'll travel to active project sites and work outdoors through summer and winter, mixing scheduled commissioning and maintenance with short-notice service callouts. Expect time around energized MV equipment under strict safety protocols, work at heights and in confined spaces, and handling of insulating fluids.