Solar Asset Operations Associate

Generate:Biomedicines; New York (NY); On-site; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Generate Capital is seeking an Associate, Technical Operations - Solar to support daily monitoring, performance reporting, and maintenance across a solar project fleet. You will handle budgets, spare parts, invoicing, and vendor SLAs, while collaborating with a commercial partner to optimize asset performance.

The role emphasizes cross-functional teamwork, data analysis, and independent task execution in a fast-growing renewable energy environment.

Qualifications

• A demonstrated passion for, or commitment to, our mission.
• 1–3+ years of experience in solar operations and maintenance, performance analytics, or technical asset management.
• Familiarity with reading and interpreting PVSyst reports is preferred.
• Previous DAS/SCADA experience in multiple platforms.
• Demonstrated experience in assessing weather-adjusted system performance.
• Experience, familiarity and comfort working in a case-management platform.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, including empathy, intuition, and listening as well as strong writing, editing, and basic design skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively on a cross functional team.
• Willingness to do the high-volume of small tasks required for a distributed generation platform.
• Intellectual agility and curiosity, superb analytical skills; problem-solving is your default mode.
• Experience in a growth company is preferable.
• Desire and ability to perform independently. Excellent organizational and self-management capability required.
• Field experience is highly valued and not required.
• High level of self-awareness and humility, with excitement about confronting uncomfortable situations or new challenges.
• Entrepreneurial spirit: flexibility, comfort with risk, recognition that “perfect can be the enemy of the good”

Responsibilities

• Actively manage the O&M on, performance of, and reactive service to a subset of the overall portfolio.
• “Own” the portfolio’s operations including mowing, washing, plowing, preventive and reactive maintenance.
• Monitor O&M vendor performance to the SLAs for monitoring obligations, response times, and cost control.
• Collect and analyze data supporting all contractual guarantees.
• Support monthly reporting on performance KPIs, major loss drivers, and status of open issues.
• Work in Generate’s existing systems for performance monitoring, case management, and reporting.
• Perform cost-benefit analysis and implement recommended optimization strategies.
• Manage all equipment warranties, warranty claims, and spare parts inventory.
• Scope, price, and manage O&M special projects as they arise (DAS migrations, major repairs, etc.).
• Source, transform, and harvest insights from data sets large and small.

Skills

O&M operations

Solar operations experience

PV systems analysis

DAS/SCADA platforms

Weather-adjusted performance

Case management

Communication skills

Cross-functional teamwork

Analytical thinking

Independent work

Growth-company experience

Tools

PVSyst

DAS/SCADA platforms

Job description

Generate Capital is seeking an Associate, Technical Operations - Solar to support daily monitoring, performance reporting, and maintenance across a solar project fleet. You will handle budgets, spare parts, invoicing, and vendor SLAs, while collaborating with a commercial partner to optimize asset performance.

The role emphasizes cross-functional teamwork, data analysis, and independent task execution in a fast-growing renewable energy environment.