About Omnidian
Omnidian is building a more sustainable future for the planet. We assure that IoT-enabled distributed energy assets perform at their best through our passionate teams, our innovative technology, and by creating an amazing customer experience. We're a well-funded, growth-stage, B Corps certified company offering the potential for enormous impact, both on our products and on the world. We are headquartered in Seattle, but are open to remote location depending on role and if a candidate resides in a state we currently employ in.The JobThis is a great part-time opportunity to join a company that is building a new business model in the solar industry. The Commercial Solar Performance Associate will have primary responsibility for the operational health and performance of a growing portfolio of commercial solar projects.
This role will identify and resolve performance issues with commercial solar systems and provide technical support assistance to clients and service technicians who call in on weekends.The qualified candidate is experienced with solar energy, has some experience with monitoring platforms and solar data analysis and has demonstrated a track record of excellent customer service and client communications. This role requires a self-starter skilled at managing multiple tasks and priorities, working across daily routine tasks as well as innovative projects. This is a 16-hr per week part-time role working Saturday and Sunday (with optional holidays).
You’ll be working alongside one other colleague most weekends.
What You'll Do
- At Omnidian we believe in trust and autonomy. How you create an impact is ultimately up to you. Here is an outline of some of the things you’ll be doing:
Weekend Technical Support - Provide critical weekend support for monitoring and alerting, including fielding calls from technicians during site visits for technical support and DAS portal verifications.
- Support client and site host customer communications, manage communications with field service technicians, and assist in resolving escalated issues.
Monitoring, Issue Management, and Service Coordination- Become proficient in various solar monitoring platforms, including Omnidian’s platform.
- Proactively identify and manage asset issues, create issue cases/tickets, notify clients of these issues, and provide corrective action recommendations.
- Assist the Performance Specialist in resolving alerts efficiently.
- Open and diligently track tickets to ensure detected issues are resolved.
- Collaborate asynchronously with the Performance Manager and Portfolio Operations Managers to ensure timely closure of all issues.
Continuous Process Improvement- Actively contribute to continuous improvement efforts by identifying, documenting, and adopting best practices and standardized procedures.
- Help pinpoint features and enhancements for Omnidian’s proprietary platform to optimize its functionality and user experience.
Who You Are
- You are highly organized and meticulous, with a strong ability to maintain accuracy and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of handling high levels of communication both written and verbal.
- You remain focused and productive when handling tasks that may be repetitive.
- You are adept at managing multiple priorities and stay calm under pressure.
- You have a passion for learning new skills and concepts and are quick to adapt to the changing needs of the business and our team.
Experience You’ll Need
- 6 months of experience in the solar energy industry
- Familiarity with Microsoft Excel, G Suite, and CRM applications like Zendesk or Salesforce
- Familiarity with monitoring solar DAS platforms and interpreting solar system design drawings
Experience That’s a Plus
- Some experience with Commercial solar (in operations and maintenance, asset management, field service management, or account management)
Work-Life & Culture
- All of our roles offer the opportunity to work remotely
- If you are in the Seattle, WA area, we offer a vibrant and creative co-working space in the heart of downtown Seattle
- If you are near one of our employee clusters, we offer one or more local gatherings per year
- We love to lift each other up through company-wide slack channels such as #puppiesandpets, #omnidian-wellness, #praiseandbooms and #sustainablefuture
- We have affinity groups to help employees feel seen and supported, such as Rainbow Array, BIPOC, Thriving Survivors, Vets at Omnidian, Black Lights Matter and Neurospicy R Us
- We are a passionate, mission driven team that believes in collaboration, mutual respect and trust. For examples, check out our posts What Makes an Ethical Company? and Why We’re Proud to Be a Certified B Corp
Grow With Us
- We mentor and invest in our employees and prioritize them for future opportunities. Check out our Instagram reels to see a few career journey examples
- Internal candidates: Check out our advice on Internal Transfer: Job Application Process
- If a full-time position on this team arises, you could apply to expand to a full-time with weekends role
- After one year, if desired, you would be eligible to move to a fully weekday schedule.
- Here are the next roles in this career track:
- Solar Performance Specialist
- Solar Performance Analyst
- Senior Solar Performance Analyst
- Lead Performance Analyst
- We’re a fast-growing startup, which means we’re constantly reinventing processes, adding new products, and asking people to use all of their skills and talents. That means there’s gonna be a lot of opportunities for you to grow, which also means you will likely be stretched in ways you’ve never experienced in a job before. If you are resilient, determined, and not afraid of a big challenge, come apply.
$21.15 - $28.61 an hourMidpoint: $24.88/hrCommitted to Parity: We place candidates within the band based on professional experience, not negotiating skills, as part of our overall effort to avoid gender pay discrepancy.Non-benefitted added: The range above is 15% above our full-time benefitted range, to help offset those benefits.#LI-REMOTEWe strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our customers.
We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We value diversity and inclusion and are committed to ensuring our hiring and retention practices, as well as our office culture, reflects this value.We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
Please contact us to request accommodation. Omnidian is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity in the workplace. We make employment decisions on the basis of merit and business need. We hire without consideration to age, ancestry, citizenship, disability, gender expression, gender identity, marital status, national origin, political activity or affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.We invite you to be part of our mission to create a workplace that is inclusive and welcoming to all.Apply for this job
