Role Purpose
The Asset Manager is responsible for the technical, commercial and financial management of Qair’s operational renewable energy portfolio, ensuring safe, efficient and compliant asset operation. This role maximises performance, revenue and lifecycle value through asset optimisation, contractor management, commercial strategies and stakeholder engagement, while supporting the full asset lifecycle from construction handover to long term operation.
Accountabilities include portfolio compliance, performance targeting, revenue/cost optimisation, O&M contractor oversight, lifecycle reliability, reporting, with cross functional collaboration across Operations, Commercial, Finance, Development and Construction teams to drive business growth.
Key Responsibilities
Project Performance & Optimisation
- Take day to day ownership of technical and financial performance, tracking against budgets and forecasts
- Monitor SCADA systems and asset management platforms, escalating underperformance, faults and data anomalies
- Conduct regular site visits to assess asset condition, verify contractor compliance and identify improvements
- Produce monthly and quarterly reports highlighting HSE, commercial performance, risks and technical issues.
- Provide exemplary HSE leadership and implement best practice asset management across the portfolio
Contractor & Stakeholder Management
- Manage relationships with O&M contractors, major suppliers and OEM’s ensuring service delivery meets contractual KPI’s and obligations
- Chair operational review meeting, driving accountability for fault resolution, maintenance backlogs and performance improvements
- Administer O&M contracts, including variations, performance deductions and contractual notices
- Support procurement activities for new O&M contract or retendering exercises
- Maintain relationships with network operators, off takers and external stakeholders.
Commercial & Revenue Management
- Optimise revenues across all routes to market (PPA’S, cPPA’s, CfDs)
- Oversee offtake agreements, trading strategies and settlement processes with counterparties
- Identify value enhancement opportunities (contract restructuring, merchant exposure, co-location strategies)
- Own asset level financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting variance analysis and cost optimisation
- Ensure accurate metering, settlement and revenue capture, recovering losses from curtailment, grid constraints or equipment failures
Asset Lifecycle & Capital Projects
- Provide operational input into technical due diligence for acquisitions, including O&M reviews and historical performance data
- Support handover of newly constructed assets into operations, establishing monitoring processes and maintenance regimes.
- Assist in preparation of technical documentation for refinancing, financing or asset transactions
- Project manage value protections and optimisation initiatives, including spares strategies, procurements and material contract negotiations
- Contribute to asset life extension assessments, performance enhancement and repowering studies
Compliance, Risk & Governance
- Ensure compliance with licences, consents, O&M contracts, land leases and other project level agreements
- Identify and manage commercial, contractual, market and operational risks
- Lead insurance claims management and recovery processes
- Maintain HSE, Environmental and operational governance compliance
- Liaise with network operators regarding connection agreements, outages and compliance obligations.
- Ensure operation invoices are issues and paid in a timely manner
- Take SPV company directorships as required
Essential Skills and Experience
Essential Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact confidently with banks, investors, advisors and senior management
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication and negotiation skills.
- Demonstrate proficiency in PowerPoint and reporting
- Strong critical thinking, decision making and problem-solving capabilities.
- Proactive mindset, strong attention to detail and ability to perform in a fast paced and evolving industry.
Essential Experience
- Degree in Business Administration, Engineering or a related field
- Experience managing operational renewable energy assets (wind, solar and/or battery energy storage systems).
- Strong understanding of asset management principles, O&M contracts and contractor management.
- Experience managing operational budgets and financial performance.
- Knowledge of UK electricity markets including PPAs, CFDs, Capacity Market and flexibility markets is desirable.
- Understanding of SCADA systems and performance monitoring tools.
- Knowledge of grid connections, metering, settlement processes and regulatory compliance.
- Strong commercial awareness with the ability to identify value optimisation opportunities.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities across a diverse asset portfolio.
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Professional membership (e.g. IET, APM or CMI) or a commitment to working towards accreditation is desirable rather than essential.
- Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel to operational sites as required.
Start Date: January 2027
Pay: £50,000.00-£70,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free or subsidised travel
- Life insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Liverpool L2 2QP: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (preferred)
Work Location: In person
