Head Operations and Maintenance

Role & responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Own plant availability, performance ratio, capacity utilisation and specific yield across the operating portfolio.
• Lead monthly performance reviews and root-cause analysis of generation losses.
• Establish and monitor preventive and predictive maintenance standards.
• Act as the primary escalation point for customers regarding plant performance, generation shortfalls and outages.
• Manage performance guarantee obligations, shortfall calculations and warranty claims.
• Lead investigation of major technical failures involving inverters, transformers, switchyards, cabling, modules and SCADA systems.
• Drive corrective and preventive actions across multiple sites.
• Lead O&M of Battery Energy Storage Systems, including capacity testing, state-of-health monitoring, degradation tracking and warranty management.
• Develop and control central spares strategy and O&M vendor/subcontractor performance.
• Ensure HSE, electrical safety and statutory compliance across operating sites.
• Oversee energy accounting, meter reading, open access scheduling and deviation settlement.
• Develop data-driven O&M dashboards and support automation/digitalisation of O&M processes.
• Lead the central O&M team and provide functional leadership to site O&M teams.
• Own the O&M operating budget and ensure cost efficiency without compromising plant availability or safety.