Asset Intelligence in Solar PV

Company Profile: candi is a dedicated PV focused renewable energy company for businesses across Asia and Africa. We bring together international capital, through our Swiss-based platform, and local expertise in order to provide a unique offering to this unserved sector. In doing so, candi aims 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. www.candi.solar

Job Summary: The company is looking to recruit an ambitious and energetic person to take on the Asset Intelligence role within South Africa, 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.

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 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
• Assisting Asset Data Acquisition with data logger troubleshooting and data validation
• Assist global Asset Intelligence team with ecosystem and tool development and maintenance

Location:

• Preferably Johannesburg. Cape Town can be an option.

• Flexibility to work from home on a regular basis (hybrid work)

• Occasional travel to candi sites and candi offices in South Africa

Hours: Full time (five days per week)

Job Requirements:

• University graduate (BTech / BEng / Electrical Engineering / Energy Systems / Data Science)
• Basic knowledge of electrical power systems
• Highly analytical in data processing and evaluation
• Critical thinking and data validation skills
• Programming skills and experience (preferably Python and SQL) are a plus
• Data dashboarding knowledge is 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 Requirements:

• 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 work 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 rooftop solar energy.
• We have a strong emphasis on a client-centric & innovation-driven working culture.
• We are an international team where remote working is commonplace, where we trust our team members to actively carve out a role for themselves according to their skillset.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted.

Keywords

Asset IntelligenceSolar PVRenewable EnergyData ProcessingElectrical EngineeringData SciencePythonSQLMachine LearningInternational Environment